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Victor Mizzy (January 9, 1916 – October 17, 2009) was an American composer for television and movies and musician whose best-known works are the themes to the 1960s television sitcoms Green Acres and The Addams Family. Mizzy also wrote top-20 songs from the 1930s to 1940s.
The theme for the 1964 TV series The Addams Family was written and arranged by longtime Hollywood film and television composer Vic Mizzy. The song's arrangement was dominated by a harpsichord and a bass clarinet, and featured finger-snaps as percussive accompaniment.
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Oct 20, 2009 · Vic Mizzy, whose theme songs for TV's Green Acres and The Addams Family made an incalculable contribution to 1960s popular culture, died Saturday. He was 93.
- Neda Ulaby
Oct 20, 2009 · Tue 20 Oct 2009 13.51 EDT. After almost 80 years in the film, TV and music industries, during which he became best known for the theme tune from the ghoulish TV comedy The Addams Family, the...
- Adam Sweeting
Oct 21, 2009 · Vic Mizzy, whose infernally catchy themes for the television comedies “The Addams Family” and “Green Acres” are as entrenched in the memories of Americans who grew up in the 1960s as any ...
Oct 20, 2009 · Bob Boilen. I'm on a train heading to Brooklyn, where I was born, and where I learned of the death of another Brooklyn boy: Vic Mizzy. Mizzy, 93, wrote a lot of music, but his clever themes...
