The show's resident teen idol Scott Baio got a record deal, too, of which the highlight was a catchy New Wave ditty called "The Boys Are Out Tonight." Donny Most (Ralph Malph) released a self-titled album in 1976, while the single "Deeply" by Anson Williams (Potsie) reached #93 on the pop chart a year later. As Richie Cunningham played in a rock band, that naturally led to some real-world musical releases, too. "Happy Days," composed by "Killing Me Softly" songwriters Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel and performed by duo Pratt and McClain, hit the Top 5. Another '50s-inspired song played over the end credits, but when it replaced "Rock Around the Clock" as the opening theme right around the time when Happy Days exploded in popularity, it became a bona fide hit. Haley actually recorded a new, soundalike version just for Happy Days, although the original version re-entered the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1974, thanks to its inclusion on the American Graffiti soundtrack and this bit of television exposure. It's as happy a day as any to "sit on it," grab a burger at Arnold's, and cruise through the history of Happy Days.Īt the very beginning of Happy Days, producers really wanted audiences to know that this was a show set in the mid-1950s, so the opening theme song for its first two seasons was "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley and His Comets, the first rock song to top the American pop chart back in 1955. Happy Days was a major presence on television, lasting for eleven seasons, dominating the ratings, selling heaps of Fonzie merchandise, and fueling the '50s revival that it rode in on, if not being responsible for the collective notion of what the '50s looked and felt like. Happy Days followed the gentle, warm, and low-key happenings of the Cunninghams, a Wisconsin nuclear family, but especially their teenage son Richie (Ron Howard) and his goofball friends Potsie (Anson Williams), Ralph (Don Most), and, of course, Fonzie (Henry Winkler), the coolest, most confident, and most charismatic character to ever hit the small screen.
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Thanks to a wave of nostalgia for the pop culture of the 1950s - early rock n' roll, drive-ins, poodle skirts, and the like, embodied by movies like American Graffiti and Grease - Happy Days became an enormously popular TV sitcom in the 1970s, a feel-good balm for viewers reeling from Watergate, the Vietnam War, social upheaval, and ugly, earth-tone shag carpeting.
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