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American film and television composer Vic Mizzy dies
Vic Mizzy, the American film and television composer who wrote the theme song to “The Addams Family,” has died at the age of 93.
The Brooklyn-born composer, who was a studio pianist for a radio station before serving with the U.S. Navy during World War Two, had a string of hits in the 1930s and 1940s including “My Dreams Are Getting Better All The Time,” and “With A Hey and a Hi and a Ho-Ho-Ho.”
Vic Mizzy is best known for writing the theme tunes for the TV shows “Green Acres” and “The Addams Family” with its infamous rat-tat-tat-tat opening and punctuated with two finger snaps. Mizzy had to sing the theme himself, overdubbing himself several times, when the production company refused to pay for singers.
Mizzy owned the publishing rights to “The Addams Family” theme, once telling a CBS interview: “Two fingers snaps and you live in Bel-Air.”
The LA Times said Mizzy died at his home in Bel Air, Los Angeles on Saturday, of heart failure.
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