Where Everybody Knows Your Name other to create the "group sound" of the hook.) It was also decided to maintain the simple feel of the New York demo in the TV version by keeping the number of instruments to a minimum. The finalized version of the "Cheers" theme song was recorded on August 13, 1982 at Paramount Pictures in Los Angeles, California. The song received an Emmy Award nomination in 1983 for Outstanding Achievement in Music and Lyrics. In a 2011 Readers Poll in "Rolling Stone" magazine, "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" was voted the best television theme of all time. In 2013, the editors
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,