Happy Days (Theme from ''Happy Days'')

This was the theme to the hit TV series Happy Days. The series began in 1974 and originally featured Bill Haley's "Rock Around The Clock" as it's opening theme and a version of "Happy Days" sung by a studio chorus as the closing theme song. Starting in 1976, Happy Days replaced "Rock Around The Clock" at the beginning of the show.

"Happy Days" was written by television theme writers Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox, who also wrote the themes for Wonder Woman, Laverne and Shirley, and Love Boat. They also composed "Killing Me Softly With His Song," which became a big hit for Roberta Flack and won the composers a Grammy Award for Song Of The Year.
Charles Fox got his start writing theme songs on the show Love American Style. He explained in our 2010 interview: "Love American Style had three separate segments, totally unrelated to each other - different stories, different casts. They were always called 'Love and the...' something. I remember 'Love and the Eskimo,' I remember 'Love and the Stuttering Cowboy,' I remember all kinds of silly things. But this was called 'Love and the Happy Days.' And ABC made it a pilot at the same time, because it was a good way for ABC to develop a pilot and use it as part of the cost of Love American Style. They loved that show, but they decided that they weren't ready to re-visit the '50s, so they put it in the can until a year or two later when George Lucas's picture American Graffiti came out. And then they went back to what they already had in the can as a pilot, and the rest, as they say, is history."

Pratt & McClain were a commercial jingle singing band consisting of Jerry McClain and Truett Pratt, who were also known as Brother Love. They released "Happy Days" as a single in 1976, which gave the duo their only UK and US Top 40 hit.