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"Where Everybody Knows Your Name" | ||||
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![]() Sleeve for one of US single releases. The release's other side displays only a greyscale variant of Cheers title card. | ||||
Single by Gary Portnoy | ||||
from the album Music from Cheers | ||||
Released | January 1983[1] | |||
Recorded | August 13, 1982 | |||
Genre | TV Theme Song Soft Rock | |||
Length | 2:28 | |||
Label | Applause | |||
Songwriter(s) | Gary Portnoy, Judy Hart-Angelo | |||
Producer(s) | Gary Portnoy and Judy Hart-Angelo | |||
Gary Portnoy singles chronology | ||||
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"Where Everybody Knows Your Name", also credited as "Theme from Cheers (Where Everybody Knows Your Name)", is the theme song from the television sitcom Cheers, as well as the debut single for Gary Portnoy. The song was written by Portnoy and Judy Hart-Angelo, and performed by Portnoy in 1982. Shortly after the premiere of Cheers, Portnoy went back into the studio to record a longer version of the song that made the U.S. and British pop charts.
The full-length version was made available on Portnoy's 2004 album Keeper. In January 2013, Argentum Records released a five-song EP entitled 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.