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Vic Mizzy, who wrote 'Addams Family' theme, dies
Yahoo - AP ^ | 10/19/09 | RAQUEL MARIA DILLON

Posted on 10/19/2009 7:22:16 PM PDT by Borges

LOS ANGELES – The songwriter who wrote the catchy theme songs to "The Addams Family" and "Green Acres" television shows has died. Vic Mizzy was 93.

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Mizzy has said that he didn't mind if people only remember him for the finger snaps at the start of the "The Addams Family" theme song. After all, he said "two snaps got me a mansion in Bel Air."

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: 2009obituaries; addamsfamily; hollywood; music; obituary; popculture
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To: Borges

Addams Family!

21 posted on 10/20/2009 5:38:04 AM PDT by Young Werther ("Quae Cum Ita Sunt - Julius Caesar "Since these things are so!">)
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To: tlb
Oh, man, I didn't think anybody except me remembered "The Double Life of Henry Phyfe" ...

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22 posted on 10/20/2009 5:45:52 AM PDT by BlueLancer (I'm getting a fine tootsy-frootsying right here...)
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To: Borges
But his most famous work was the theme to "The Addams Family," a tune accented by finger snaps and opening with the cleverly quirky lyrics: "They're creepy and they're kooky, mysterious and spooky, they're altogether ooky: the Addams family."

Mizzy sang the song himself and overdubbed it three times to give the impression of multiple vocalists. He also directed the title sequence where he asked actors who played members of the Addams family to snap their fingers in a bored way.

from here

23 posted on 10/20/2009 9:30:48 PM PDT by my_pointy_head_is_sharp
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To: Borges
Just found his own website, where it has more pictures of him, including one when he was young.
24 posted on 10/20/2009 9:37:30 PM PDT by my_pointy_head_is_sharp
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To: Borges
Also, here's his filmography, where it lists every song he wrote.

He also wrote The Night Has a Thousand Eyes (w/ Irving Taylor).

25 posted on 10/20/2009 9:49:20 PM PDT by my_pointy_head_is_sharp
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To: 537cant be wrong; Aeronaut; bassmaner; Bella_Bru; Big Guy and Rusty 99; Brian Allen; cgk; ...
You PANG?


26 posted on 10/22/2009 10:49:03 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The character assassination of Rush Limbaugh is worse than what the Left accused Joe McCarthy of.)
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Their house is a museum
when people come to seeum
they really are a screeum

27 posted on 10/22/2009 10:52:23 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The character assassination of Rush Limbaugh is worse than what the Left accused Joe McCarthy of.)
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