Posted by RadioActive on October 21, 2009, 1:04 pm He also scored scores of movies and I remember seeing his name in the credits of lots of shows. Pruitts of Southampton Theme (If you dare...)
64.231.193.246 | Message modified by user RadioActive October 21, 2009, 3:32 pm
Can't let this passing pass, simply because he was so much a part of the soundtrack of so many lives. Vic Mizzy died on the weekend, and though he was hardly a household name, he wrote at least two compositions that will live well beyond his 93 years.
The first and maybe most famous was the theme song to the Addams Family TV show, which ran on ABC in the mid-60s. (He sang the song himself and often joked that those infamous finger snaps helped to pay for his home.)
AP Obit
And then he put together the theme song for Green Acres, which if memory serves was revived for a commercial in recent years.
He also composed the theme from the long forgotten "Pruitts of Southampton," a 1966 ABC Phyllis Diller-starring vehicle voted one of the worst TV shows of all time. But the opening song, which no one but yours truly seems to remember, was one of the greatest in TV history.
RIP. Let's hope wherever he is now, it's "the place to be."
Vic Mizzy Bio
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