Late last year, I was contacted by a man who wanted to use a painting of mine that he had acquired ten or so years ago as part of the packaging for a CD he was about to release. The piece, To the Victor, was one that I remembered well from that time and I agreed to his use of the image. It was, however, a painting that I only had documented with a slide that had been damaged so he would have to get the painting photographed. No problem.
This week I received a copy of the CD from the artist and was pleased to see the painting on the cover of the CD’s booklet. The piece fits well with the title of the CD as well, Songs Along the Way, from songwriter Gary Portnoy.
Gary Portnoy is best known as the singer and composer of perhaps the best known theme song from any TV show ever, the Cheers theme, Where Everybody Knows Your Name. Who hasn’t at least hummed along to that tune at some point? He has also written the themes of several other television shows, garnering two Emmy nominations, and his songs have been recorded and performed by a wide variety of artists. To find out more about Gary’s music and his career check out his website by simply clicking the cover from his new CD, shown here.
You always hope that your work will live well with the people who obtain it and it’s extremely gratifying to have a piece such as To the Victor still resonate with its owner so that he chooses it to represent, in some small way, his own work. Many thanks to you, Gary.
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