Cheers (season 1) Super Bowl pre-game segment on January 30, 1983, along with sketches for other NBC shows, including "The A-Team". After efforts to improve the ratings failed, NBC approved production of nine more episodes, and renewed the series for the next season. Before "Where Everybody Knows Your Name", written by Gary Portnoy and Judy Hart Angelo became the show's theme song, "Cheers" producers rejected two of Portnoy's and Hart Angelo's songs. The songwriters had collaborated to provide music for "Preppies" an unsuccessful Broadway musical. When told they could not appropriate "People Like Us", "Preppies"s opening song, the pair wrote "My Kind of
Elan Portnoy Elan Portnoy Elan Portnoy is a music producer and a guitarist in three bands: The Headless Horsemen, The Fuzztones and The Waspmen. In the late 80s, Portnoy was a guitarist for The Headless Horsemen, a New York City based 60s Rock-n-Roll group. The band reunited in 2013 and opened for Billy Gibbons'(ZZ Top) band The Moving Sidewalks at BB King Blues Club & Grill in New York City. Formed in 2012, this Kansas City based 60s “garage” band was aimed to bring genuine Rock-n-Roll back into the Kansas City music scene. Specializing in high-energy Rock-n-Roll, The Waspmen are played frequently