Vic Mizzy

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. Early life Mizzy was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Jewish immigrants, and attended New York University. As a child, he played accordion and piano, and was largely self-taught as a composer. During World War II, he served in the United States Navy where he wrote some of his hit songs. Songwriting In the late 1930s, while based in New York City, Mizzy began composing a string of popular songs. These included Doris Day’s 1945 hit “My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time”. A soundtrack album was released in 1965 containing all his compositions from The Addams Family entitled Original Music From The Addams Family. The single of the theme reached #25 on Canada’s CHUM Charts. Mizzy rewrote and conducted The Addams Family Theme with a slightly different melody for the 1977 television special Halloween with the New Addams Family, which reunited most of the original cast of the 1964–1966 TV series. He also wrote the sco