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
Elliott Portnoy counsel around the world. Prior to assuming the Sonnenschein chairmanship, Portnoy was chair of the firm's Public Law & Policy Strategies Group, which he founded in 2002. This public policy practice has received national recognition by "Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business" as one of the nation's leading government relations practices and "The National Law Journal" magazine ranked the group No. 8 on its annual “Influence 50” list of the nation’s highest-grossing lobbying practices for 2009. Harvard Law School, J.D., "cum laude", 1992 Oxford University, Rhodes Scholar, Ph.D., 1986-1989 Syracuse University, B.A., "summa cum laude", 1986 In 2009, Portnoy