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"I'll Be There for You" is a song by American pop rock duo the Rembrandts. The song was written by David Crane, Marta Kauffman, Michael Skloff, and Allee Willis as the main theme song to the NBC sitcom Friends,[4] which was broadcast from 1994 to 2004.[5] American rock band R.E.M. was originally asked to allow their song "Shiny Happy People" to be used for the Friends theme, but they turned the opportunity down. "I'll Be There for You" was subsequently written and Warner Bros. Television selected the only available band on Warner Bros. Records to record it: the Rembrandts. In 1995, after a Nashville radio station brought the song to mainstream popularity, Rembrandts members Danny Wilde and Phil Slem expanded the theme song with two new verses and included this version on their third studio album, L.P. (1995).

The extended version of the song was serviced to US radio on May 23, 1995, and was issued in the United Kingdom on August 7, 1995, as the first single from L.P. Following the song's release, it reached the top 10 in Australia, New Zealand and Norway, as well as in Ireland and the United Kingdom in both 1995 and 1997. In Canada, the song reached number one for five weeks and was the most successful single of 1995, while in the United States, the song reached number 17 on the Billboard Hot 100 and topped the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay chart for eight weeks.

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The title theme of Friends was initially going to be "Shiny Happy People" by American rock band R.E.M., but when the band rejected the offer, Warner Bros. Television instead decided to recreate R.E.M.'s sound by enlisting the Rembrandts, consisting of members Phil Slem and Danny Wilde, to record a new theme song. The music was composed by Marta Kauffman's husband, Michael Skloff.[6][7] The Rembrandts did not want to record the song, but since they were the only available band on Warner Bros. Records, they relented to the company's demands.[8] The original lyrics of "I'll Be There for You", a single verse as needed for the length of the series' opening credits, were co-written by Friends producers David Crane, and Kauffman along with songwriter Allee Willis. Skloff became inspired by hearing the Beatles song "Paperback Writer" on the radio while reading a show script and sought to capture a mid-1960s pop sound for the theme.[9] The handclaps at the end of the first line of the song were a last-minute addition, with Slem admitting that it was a wise decision and naming it the best part of the track.[8]

The original theme, which is under one minute long, was later re-recorded as a three-minute pop song.[10] After a radio announcer in Nashville, Tennessee, looped the original short version into a full-length track and broadcast it, the song became so popular that that the Rembrandts had to re-record it, as well as helping to write the second verse and bridge.[8] Slem said, "Our record label said we had to finish the song and record it. There was no way to get out of it."[11] The three-minute version of "I'll Be There for You" was serviced to American contemporary hit radio on May 23, 1995.[12] In the United Kingdom, a CD single and cassette single were issued on August 7, 1995.[13] On May 12, 1997, the CD and cassette were re-issued in the UK to commemorate the video release of the first season of Friends.[14][15]

In 2009, the song was listed by Blender as one of the "50 Worst Songs Ever".[16] Conversely, several magazines have listed the song as one of the best TV theme songs, including Paste,[17] Complex,[18] and Observer.[19]

"I'll Be There for You" topped the US Billboard Hot 100 Airplay chart for eight weeks and also peaked atop the Billboard Adult Contemporary and Top 40/Mainstream charts.[20][21][22] At the peak of its popularity, the song was not available as a commercial single, therefore becoming the first song to top the Hot 100 Airplay chart without appearing on the Hot 100.[23] On the Billboard Hot 100, when it was later released commercially as a double A-side with "This House Is Not a Home", it reached number 17.[24] In Canada, the song peaked at number one for five consecutive weeks and was the most successful single of 1995.[25][26] In the United Kingdom, it reached number three on the UK Singles Chart, and it peaked at the same position on the Irish Singles Chart the same year.[27][28] In Scotland, it topped the country's singles chart.[29] The song sold 322,000 copies in the UK during 1995.[8]

While the song did not immediately make a significant commercial impact in Australia, peaking at number 86 in October 1995,[30] it soon re-entered the ARIA Singles Chart in August 1996 and peaked at number three on the week of October 13, spending a total of 20 weeks in the top 50.[31] In 1997, when re-released in Europe, the song reached the top 10 in Ireland and the United Kingdom once more, placing two positions shy of its number-three peak in both countries.[28][32] This re-release also saw the song reach the top 40 in Flanders, France, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden.[33] As of May 2021, "I'll Be There for You" has sold 925,000 copies and has been streamed 20.7 million times in the UK since streaming figures were introduced in 2014. According to the Official Charts Company, the song is streamed an average of 96,000 times a week.[8]

The video features the band performing in a studio while the cast of Friends join in. Some scenes are shot in black-and-white. The Rembrandts members Phil Slem and Danny Wilde disclosed during a live interview on The Today Show on September 20, 2019, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the song that the video was shot on the set of SNL (Studio 8H).[34][35]

I watched The One where Monica gets a roommate (Pilot) on Netflix. It starts with the intro and I felt like it sounded off. I checked with an episode from season 9 and the song is noticeably different.

Last week, Yoenis Cspedes stole headlines and crushed game-winnning homers when he started using "Circle of Life" from The Lion King as his walkup song. But it's a new week, and for the Mets, a new walkup song: This time, during the Mets' 5-1 win over the Nationals on Sunday, Wilmer Flores debuted, um, "Friends?"

But no one told Willis life was going to be this way. The Detroit native didn't even read music or play an instrument, she learned how to craft songs by sitting outside of Motown Records. As a kid, Willis would have her parents drive her down to the studios.

In 1978, Willis was a struggling songwriter in Los Angeles, writing album liner notes and getting by on food stamps, when she got a call from Maurice White of the band Earth, Wind & Fire. He wanted Willis to help write the group's next album.

"As I open the door, they had just written the intro to 'September.' And I just thought, 'Dear God, let this be what they want me to write!' Cause it was obviously the happiest-sounding song in the world," Willis said.

Willis wrote hundreds of other songs, including pieces for Ray Charles, Sister Sledge and Cyndi Lauper. She also co-wrote The Rembrandts' "I'll Be There For You," the theme song for the '90s sitcom Friends. The song was nominated for an Emmy.

Friends executive producer Kevin S. Bright, who formed Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions in 1993 with Marta Kauffman and David Crane, was looking to do something a bit different with the Friends theme song. He was in the market for a melody similar to that of R.E.M.'s 1987 hit "It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)," which is the song that accompanied the Friends pilot when Bright first sent it to Wilde and Solem. "I think they thought it felt, tempo-wise, that was where they wanted to go," Wilde said. "Kevin had it in his head that he didn't want to have a jingle writer write the theme song for the show. He was a fan of The Rembrandts from other records that we had made, so he called our manager. Our manager called us on Monday and we said, 'Sure, we'll try it out. We'll see what happens.'"

As the bandmates recalled, that following Thursday in mid-September 1994, they sat down with Michael Skloff, the Friends theme song composer and also Kaufman's husband, and Allee Willis, the brains behind the lyrics. "Michael Skloff was the only guy who was responsible for the music and the vibe of the show. He had an idea for how the song ought to go, so we got together and we pitched some ideas," Solem said. "We Rembrandt-ified it. We were like, 'If it's gonna be us, it's gotta be this.' 'We wouldn't say that, we'd say this.'"

But not before some finishing touches were added. "We thought we were all done, and then, we went in to hear the final mix and the clapping was in there," Solem said. "I was like, Who thought of that? That's like the best part!" Wilde said the show's executive producers wanted to make a contribution to the clapping portion of the song as well. "Kevin Bright, Marta Kauffman, and David Crane wanted to be part of the record so they wanted to try the clapping part," he said, before pausing and putting his face in his hands. "Oh my god. All they had to do was go (clap, clap, clap, clap). And it was like, 'Take 25!'"

And, you'll note, Wilde clapped four, not five times when he recounted that story. He was happy to clarify that it is indeed four claps, not five in the song, which even confuses some of the cast members. "I watched that Jimmy Kimmel thing a couple weeks ago and Courteney, when it came to that part, she goes (clap, clap, clap, clap, clap)," Solem said. "She did it five times. I was like, Court. FOUR!"

Friends was worthy of some applause when it made its debut on Sept. 22, 1994. The pilot came in as the 15th-most-watched television show of the week, scoring a 14.7 Nielsen rating and bringing in 21.5 million viewers, which only CBS's The Big Bang Theory comes close to sitcom-wise these days. "It was pretty cool," Wilde said of hearing the song they'd recorded less than a week earlier on air for the first time. "That was back in the day when the theme song was almost 50 seconds. It was great." 2351a5e196