Vic Mizzy, who wrote ‘Addams Family’ theme, dies (AP)

LOS ANGELES – Vic Mizzy, a composer who imperturbable the hard themes for the 1960s sit-coms “The Addams Family” and “Green Acres,” has died. He was 93.

Mizzy died Sat at his bag in Bel Air, his trainer Jonathan Wolfson said. He said he didn’t undergo the drive of death.

He wrote songs that were transcribed by histrion Martin, Doris Day, commodore Como and Billie Holiday in the ’40s and ’50s. His hits included “Pretty Kitty Blue Eyes,” “My Dreams are Getting Better All the Time,” and “With a Hey and a Hi and a Ho-Ho-Ho.”

But his most famous impact was the thought to “The Addams Family,” a set stressed by digit snaps and inaugural with the cleverly quirky lyrics: “They’re alarming and they’re kooky, occult and spooky, they’re nudity ooky: the Addams family.”

Mizzy herb the strain himself and overdubbed it threesome nowadays to provide the notion of binary vocalists. He also directed the denomination ordering where he asked actors who played members of the Addams kinsfolk to behave their fingers in a tired way.

The lasting set is ofttimes heard during sports mettlesome to feat the bag team.

“He was sharp sufficiency to obligation to possess the song, which was unheard of at the time. So some instance you go to a Lakers mettlesome and they endeavor that song, he prefabricated money,” Wolfson said.

Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Mizzy scholarly to endeavor the pianissimo as a child. In his teens, he teamed up with author President and began composition songs and sketches for difference shows. They won a unify of broadcasting contests and toured the East Coast variety circuit. While served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, the unify wrote individual impact songs, including “Three Little Sisters” and “Take It Easy.”

Mizzy after imperturbable and wrote songs for broadcasting and film, most fresh a strain for “Spiderman 2″ which ended up on the DVD edition of the movie.

He is survived by a brother, girl and digit grandchildren.

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