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GM: In early 1969, I went to my very first concert at the age of eleven and saw The Cowsills at Euclid Senior High School in our Cleveland suburb. In the fall of that year, my father and I watched a new television show called Love, American Style, with The Cowsills singing the theme song, which was also included as a flip side of one of their singles that year. I finally met them on the Happy Together Tour in recent years and in addition to their radio hits, they perform your composition in their shows as the one flip side in the show. I just love it.
CF: Thank you. That year they had their version of "Hair" out and it was a big record. I had just come to California to do the music for Goodbye, Columbus as my first Hollywood film. While I was out there I was asked by the people at Paramount Pictures to do a theme for a new television show pilot that was a mix of comedy and love and they said that they thought my sound would be right for the show. I didn't know what a pilot was, but I sure learned. Arnold Margolin was the creator of the series and he and I wrote several songs for the show including the theme song. I went back to New York and received a call that they wanted me to come back to California to record the song for the show with a big named group and I suggested The Cowsills. One snowy night they sent me to Saratoga, New York to meet with The Cowsills, where they were performing. They were really nice people and were very happy to record the song, so they came to California and recorded it. This was another very nice experience. What I learned, at the end of the year, was that is was nominated for an Emmy award, which was so out of my vocabulary. I went to the award ceremony in New York, and by golly, we won the award for the best television theme song, so I got off to a fantastic start in my career with that song.
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