Where Everybody Knows Your Name the perfect theme song for their upcoming NBC sitcom, "Cheers". Upon learning that "People Like Us" was legally bound to the musical Preppies, the Charles Brothers asked Portnoy and Hart Angelo to take a shot at composing a theme specifically for "Cheers". The song that resulted, "My Kind of People", was somewhat of a reworked version of "People Like Us". It was subsequently rejected. Portnoy and Hart Angelo then wrote and submitted two more potential themes for "Cheers". One of them, entitled "Another Day", contained a lyric line "There are times when it's fun to take the long way home"
David Portnoy David Portnoy David Portnoy (born March 22, 1977), nicknamed "El Presidente" and "El Pres", is an American businessman, blogger, podcast host, and founder of the satirical sports and pop culture blog Barstool Sports. Born to Michael and Linda, Portnoy grew up in Swampscott, Massachusetts, where he attended Swampscott High School (Class of 1995). One of his classmates there was ESPN's Todd McShay. Portnoy later attended the University of Michigan in 1995, and graduated with a degree in education. Following graduation in 1999, Portnoy moved to Boston and began working at Yankee Group, an IT market research firm. After four years,