Where Everybody Knows Your Name the Charles Brothers gave it their stamp of approval, and once Portnoy and Hart Angelo had complied with a request for a few lyric changes intended to broaden the song's appeal to a more general audience, "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" was officially designated the "Theme from "Cheers"". The original opening verse: was changed to: After several months of mulling over possible outside singers, the producers eventually asked Gary Portnoy to record the vocal for the opening credits of their new series. (The chorus of the song is six of Portnoy’s vocals that he recorded one on top of the
Everybody Knows (Leonard Cohen song) 2015 movie "The Program". Don Henley's version is heard in episode 219 of the television series "Judging Amy", which aired in 2001. Later, the Concrete Blonde version was featured in the third episode of the first season of "Dirty Sexy Money" entitled the "Italian Banker". "Everybody Knows" has also been used in a June 2008 anti-smoking advertisement commissioned by the New South Wales government in Australia with the theme "everybody knows smoking causes these diseases ... yet you still do it". A cover of the song by Sigrid plays during the opening credits of "Justice League". Cohen's version plays at