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The documentary about Fox's career, "Killing Me Softly With His Songs," is now available for streaming on demand. In an interview, Fox talked about falling in love with playing the piano, working with The Cowsills, Jack Jones, and Roberta Flack, the TV theme that became a pop hit, and the one that ocean-going vessels use to communicate.
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You did the theme song for another kind of anthology, Love American Style. How did the Cowsills come to sing that theme?
I suggested The Cowsills. I came out to California to do a movie called Goodbye Columbus. When I finished that, Paramount said to me, "We have a series, a new pilot we'd like you to do called Love American Style. So I stayed around another month or so, and I wrote a bunch of songs with Arnold Margolin, who was one of the co-creators of the show. The show sold. Bill Stinson, vice president of the Paramount music department, said, "You've got to go tomorrow morning to see the Cowsills." They were performing in Schenectady, where it was cold and snowing. So I had to give up my weekend to get on a number of planes to get up to Schenectady. But it worked out pretty well anyway. They even have that song on their greatest hits album.
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