RIP Vic Mizzy

[anytune]

Songwriter Vic Mizzy, who penned the themes to "The Addams Family" and "Green Acres," has died at age 93. Mizzy, who sang all the parts in The Addams Family theme, also wrote hits for Dean Martin, Doris Day, Perry Como and Billie Holiday in the ’40s and ’50s, including “Pretty Kitty Blue Eyes,” “My Dreams are Getting Better All the Time,” and “With a Hey and a Hi and a Ho-Ho-Ho.”

 

[slow_jazz]

R.I.P. Vic.

Always loved that Addam's Family theme song...

Lived a nice long life there....

 

[finnbow]

I remember these lyrics as if it were yesterday:

Green acres is the place to be
Farm living is the life for me
Land spreading out,
so far and wide
Keep Manhattan,
just give me that countryside.

New York
is where I'd rather stay
I get allergic smelling hay
I just adore a penthouse view
Darling, I love you,
but give me Park Avenue

The Chores
The Stores
Fresh air
Times Square

You are my wife. Goodbye city life.
Green Acres we are there!

RIP

 

[truetone36]

IIRC, he also wrote some of the music for "How The Grinch Stole Christmas".

 

[Sandy G]

"They're creepy & they're kooky.
Mysterious & spooky,
They're altogether Ooky
The Addams Family...
Their house is a Museum,
When People come to see 'em
They really are a Screa-Uhm,
The Addams Family...
Neat...Sweet...Petite...
So get a witches' shawl on,
A broomstick you can crawl on,
We're gonna pay a call on
The Addams Family..."
Remember it like it was yesterday...

 

[spideyjack]

oh, i have several records with songs by him, but probably never would have put his name with them.

 

[70salesguy]

I saw this on the news this morning as well.

How cool would it have been to have written the theme song for the Addams Family?

Imagine this. You're at a party. Someone asks "What do you do?"

You say "I'm a song writer".

"Anything I might be familiar with?" they ask.

You look at them and say "do do do doop" and snap your fingers twice!

That would have been the BEST! :yes: