Cheers—Where Everybody Knows Your Name

Everybody remembers Cheers. Everybody remembers Sam and Diane, and Norm and Cliff...and Frasier. The popular TV sitcom ran from 1982 to 1993 on NBC and in world-wide syndication since. The show was set in Boston, in a bar called Cheers.

"The exterior location shots of the bar were actually of the Bull & Finch Pub, located directly north of the Boston Public Garden,which has become a tourist attraction because of its association with the series and draws in nearly a million visitors annually. It has since been renamed Cheers Beacon Hill, though its interior is different from the TV bar. To further capitalize on the show's popularity, another bar, Cheers Faneuil Hall, was built to be a replica of the show's set to provide tourists with a bar whose interior was closer to the one they saw on TV. It is near Faneuil Hall, about a mile from the Bull & Finch Pub." —Wikipedia

Visit the official Cheers bar website.

Most everybody remembers the THEME SONG to Cheers as well. Many can even recall most of the words..."Sometimes you want to go...where everybody knows your name, and they're always glad you came...you wanna be where you can see our troubles are all the same...you wanna be where everybody knows your name."

But for the songwriters of the famous Cheers theme, well, they may be asking, "does anybody know MY NAME?"

Probably not many. "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" was co-written by Gary Portnoy and Judy Hart Angelo. Portnoy was also the singer on the song.

"Gary [Portnoy] is best known for co-writing and singing 'Where Everybody Knows Your Name,' the theme from the hit television series Cheers. Thanks to that song (as well as the themes to Punky Brewster and Mr. Belvedere among others) Gary was honored by ASCAP for having composed the most performed television themes for six consecutive years." —GaryPortnoy.com

See The Story Behind the Cheers Theme.

"Where Everybody Knows Your Name" was nominated for an Emmy award. Other Portnoy songs have been covered by successful recording artists including Dolly Parton, Air Supply, Phish and Leon Redbone.

Where Everybody Knows Your Name Lyrics
(Words and Music by Gary Portnoy and Judy Hart Angelo)

Making your way in the world today
takes everything you've got;
Taking a break from all your worries
sure would help a lot.
Wouldn't you like to get away?
Sometimes you want to go

Where everybody knows your name,
and they're always glad you came.
You wanna be where you can see,
our troubles are all the same
You wanna be where everybody knows
Your name.

You wanna go where people know,
people are all the same,
You wanna go where everybody knows
your name.

Making your way in the world today
Takes everything you've got;
Taking a break from all your worries
Sure would help a lot.
Wouldn't you like to get away?

All those night when you've got no lights,
The check is in the mail;
And your little angel
Hung the cat up by it's tail;
And your third fiance didn't show;

Sometimes you want to go
Where everybody knows your name,
And they're always glad you came;
You want to be where you can see,
Our troubles are all the same;
You want to be where everybody knows your name.

Roll out of bed, Mr. Coffee's dead;
The morning's looking bright;
And your shrink ran off to Europe,
And didn't even write;
And your husband wants to be a girl;

Be glad there's one place in the world
Where everybody knows your name,
And they're always glad you came;
You want to go where people know,
People are all the same;
You want to go where everybody knows your name.

Where everybody knows your name,
And they're always glad you came;
Where everybody knows your name,
And they're always glad you came...

Theme From "Cheers" - (Where Everybody Knows Your Name) - Sheet Music (Digital Download)