Gary Portnoy (born January 1, 1956)[LINK: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0692470/] [1] is a singer/ songwriter, best known for singing the theme songs to two U.S. television sitcoms: · Cheers Theme: "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" · Punky Brewster Theme: "Every Time I Turn Around" Both songs were written by Portnoy and Judy Hart Angelo. (They also composed the theme to the long running television series Mr Belvedere.) In addition, both shows aired on NBC. Career Portnoy and Angelo were composing the score to an off-Broadway musical, Preppies, in the early 1980s when one of the producers of Cheers heard their opening number, "People Like Us". He wanted to use the song as the theme for his upcoming show, Cheers. However, the producers of Preppies wouldn't release it. Portnoy and Angelo then set out to write a new theme for Cheers. A

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