Where Everybody Knows Your Name "Cheers: Music From The TV Series" which also includes Portnoy's original demo version, as well as several earlier attempts by Portnoy and Angelo at composing the theme. By 1981, New York songwriter Gary Portnoy had already written songs for the likes of Air Supply ("I’ll Never Get Enough") and Dolly Parton ("Say Goodnight"). One night in the summer of that same year, his friend Judy Hart happened to be seated next to a Broadway producer at dinner. Upon finding out that Hart was working for a music publisher, he asked her if she could recommend someone to compose the score
Ethel Portnoy Kousbroek (1929–2010) in 1951. She raised two children and until 1962 she worked at the UNESCO. She worked for Dutch papers and was published in "Randstad", in the weeklies "Haagse Post" and "Vrij Nederland" and also in the "NRC Handelsblad". The family moved to The Hague in 1970. In the late 1970s Portnoy was one of the editors of the feminist literary journal "Chrysallis". Since 1979, she worked at the journal "Maatstaf". Portnoy debuted as a novelist in 1971 at the age of 44 with the book "Steen en Been". She wrote in English, but considered herself a Dutch writer.