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"
Everybody Knows (Trisha Yearwood song) Everybody Knows (Trisha Yearwood song) "Everybody Knows" is a song written by Matraca Berg and Gary Harrison, and recorded by American country music artist Trisha Yearwood. It was released in October 1996 as the second single from her album of the same name. The song reached number 3 on the US "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in February 1997 and number 1 on the "RPM" Country Tracks chart in Canada. The music video was directed by Gerry Wenner and premiered in November 1996. "Everybody Knows" debuted at number 57 on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks