Upon finding out that Hart was working for a music publisher, he asked her if she could recommend someone to compose the score for a new musical he was producing. One night in the summer of that same year, his friend Judy Hart happened to be seated next to a Broadway producer at dinner. In January 2013, Argentum Records released a five-song EP entitled Cheers: Music from the TV Series which also includes Portnoy's original demo version, as well as several earlier attempts by Portnoy and Angelo at composing the theme.īy 1981, New York songwriter Gary Portnoy had already written songs for Air Supply (' I'll Never Get Enough of You') and Dolly Parton ('Say Goodnight'). The full-length version was made available on Portnoy's 2004 album Keeper. Shortly after the premiere of Cheers, Portnoy went back into the studio to record a longer version of the song that made the U.S. The song was written by Portnoy and Judy Hart Angelo, and performed by Portnoy in 1982. ' Where Everybody Knows Your Name', also credited as ' Theme from Cheers (Where Everybody Knows Your Name)', is the theme song from the television sitcom Cheers, as well as the debut single for Gary Portnoy. ' Theme from Punky Brewster (Every Time I Turn Around)'

The release's other side displays only a greyscale variant of Cheers title card.

Everybody knows your name piano