Where Everybody Knows Your Name "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. By 1981, New York songwriter Gary Portnoy had already written songs for the likes of Air Supply ("I’ll Never Get Enough") and Dolly Parton ("Say Goodnight"). One night in the summer of that same year, his friend Judy Hart happened to be seated next to a Broadway producer at dinner. Upon finding out that Hart was working for a music publisher, he asked her if she could recommend someone to compose the score
Elan Portnoy Oil. The Fuzztones released over a dozen recordings on vinyl and CD in Europe and the US during this era, and they have played on bills with The Bangles, The Lords of the New Church, The Damned, The Cramps and R.E.M.. They have also played on a special Christmas show with Screamin' Jay Hawkins which was released as an LP in the US. Portnoy has played onstage with Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Roy Loney of the Flamin' Groovies, Mark Lindsay of Paul Revere and The Raiders and Hilton Valentine of The Animals. He has also recorded with The Shadows of Knight,