Music For Maniacs (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Vic Mizzy just died at age 93, so let's listen to his now out-of-print album of (mostly) new songs he just recorded a few years ago. Apart from versions of two of his most famous TV theme songs, "The Addams Family" and "Green Acres," he sings original, mostly light-hearted songs about his everyday life - ladies playing tennis, his Hollywood social circle, barbecuing, some sentimental...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Vic Mizzy, the American composer and king of TV sitcom themes, was fond of saying: "Two finger-snaps and you live in Bel Air", a reference to the success of the infernally catchy one-minute song he wrote for the opening credits of the spoof horror series The Addams Family.
Brains and Eggs (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
-- My choice for Texas Governor has established a rapid response site for the jumble of news associated with the half-dozen or so Texas gubernatorial candidates. Don't miss the hilarious mugshots of Tom Schieffer and Farouk Shami (who is a dead ringer for Cesar Romero ). -- Glenn Smith has been doing some excellent writing over at his new place , but my favorites have been his reminiscences about H-Town...
Ain't it Cool News (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
here to pay my respects to the "all together ooky" who passed away last week at the age of 93.Mizzy was a veteran composer and songwriter whose credits include the films THE GHOST AND MR. CHICKEN (1966), THE RELUCTANT ASTRONAUT (1967), HOW TO FRAME A FIGG (1971), and television series such as THE ADDAMS FAMILY (1964-1966) and GREEN ACRES (1965-1970) which flaunted two of the most memorable...
I Blog Fashion (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
The latest Gmail thread from the boys: Andrew to Annmarie, Neil 8:04 AM Read this on a blog ; Last Thursday Vic Mizzy, the songwriter behind The Addams Family theme tune, died at the age of 93. Obviously the family of the President of Spain were mourning his passing when they recently met the Obamas. Neil to Annmarie, Andrew 9:14 AM Some people have been hitting the patatas bravas in a bad way. And...
London, City, Summer? (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Last Thursday Vic Mizzy, the songwriter behind The Addams Family theme tune, died at the age of 93. Obviously the family of the President of Spain were mourning his passing when they recently met the Obamas... They're creepy and they're kooky
The Musings of Kev (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
I seem to notice a pattern during this, the busiest of all semesters, with regard to blogging by yours truly: 1) Post on Monday, one of my "earliest" finishes (6:45) of the week. 2) Start posts on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday (and sometimes Friday) but never have time to finish them. 3) Catch up on Saturday or Sunday and post links to all the "missed" posts. Well, here we are...
tabloid baby (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
For a kid growing up in the Sixties, Soupy Sales was a daily bad influence, a kiddie show host who offered an afternoon class in anarchy, rebelliousness and wild, grown-up comedy that, like the music of Vic Mizzy, had a lasting effect. Soupy actually was suspended-- jailed, we thought-- for instructing us mail him those dirty green pieces of paper with the pictures of the men we'd find in out
Instapundit.com (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
SOUPY SALES HAS DIED. Also Vic Mizzy, who composed the Addams Family theme song.
LAist (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
"Union Station" by hatehills via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr The Angels beat the Yankees , 7-6, in Game 5 tonight. New York still leads in the American League Championship Series at 3-2. Oh, really? TMZ finds that two girls, aged 18 and 19, have been arrested in connection to burglaries at the homes of Lindsay Lohan and Audrina Patridge. They also might be connected to similar...
DarkCompass (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
This week,Calming down for the weekend. Interview with The Kiara Elles, The return of Graham Cobbett, and his fight against Dell and Microsoft. Noise pollution, courtesy of Madonna, Lily bashing and Neo-luddites. The demise of Vic Mizzy, and not paying attention to Nick Griffin. You will hear: Fear the Strange, by Idols are Higher – [...]
Times Online (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Vic Mizzy wrote music for hundreds of songs, films and television shows in a career spanning 70 years, but it was one simple little ditty that made him rich. The song for the comedy show The Addams Family (1964-66) has become one of television’s most memorable theme tunes, with its jolly, silly lyric and its simple and irresistibly catchy musical motif, punctuated by finger-snapping.
Rock Turtleneck (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Vic Mizzy , who wrote the Addams Family theme song , perhaps the greatest of all TV themes, passed away yesterday at the age of 93. It is spooky that he should leave us so close to Hallowe'en , the time of year when his creepy and cooky and all together ooky tune is most appreciated. The show was based on the popular black-humor cartoons by Charles Addams , which ran in the New Yorker magazine for...
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Songwriter who created The Addams Family theme
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Songwriter who created The Addams Family theme
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