I've spent a lot of the past few days thinking about eighties sitcom theme songs and wondering what cultural evolution led to all of them having these deeply sincere, soulful lyrics set to very cool, jazzy melodies Like the preceding decade's theme songs were cheery and frenetic
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Frederick and Salvay were a songwriting team who made it big in the '80s with their signature style for sitcom theme songs -- they really liked big, epic lyrics with a soaring, heartstring-tugging melody
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The producer duo Thomas Miller and Robert Boyett (Miller-Boyett Productions), who'd already made Mork and Mindy and Laverne and Shirley, took a shine to Frederick and Salvay and commissioned theme songs for their big '80s hits from them
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