Jesse Frederick - wikipedia Jesse Frederick Jump to : navigation , search Jesse Frederick James Conaway ( born 1948 ) , known professionally as Jesse Frederick , is an American film and television composer and singer best known for writing and performing the themes to TGIF television shows such as Perfect Strangers , Full House , Family Matters , and Step By Step for ABC . Contents ( hide ) 1 Early years 2 Music career beginnings 2.1 Bearsville Records and early EPs 3 Film composing 4 Foray into TV : Bennett Salvay and Miller / Boyett 4.1 Perfect Strangers 4.2 Valerie / Valerie 's Family 4.3 Full House 4.4 Family Matters 4.5 1990s success 4.6 Return to television scoring 5 Work with other TV producers 6 References 7 External links Early years ( edit ) Frederick was born Jesse Frederick James Conaway in Salisbury , Maryland , and was raised in Seaford , Delaware . He was the youngest of two children . His brother , Everett Thomas ( Tommy ) Conaway , Jr. ( 1944 - 1956 ) , died of Cystic Fibrosis at 12 years of age . In his early childhood , Jesse was familiarly known as `` Freddy '' before legally dropping the James Conaway from his name in his later teens . This was done in an attempt to distinguish himself from the legacy of his father , Everett T. `` Conny '' Conaway , Sr. ( 1915 - 2010 ) . Conny was a prominent figure in the poultry processing industry . During his unprecedented 70 - year career , the senior Conaway designed and built some of the earliest processing plants for Allen Family Foods , Frank Perdue and Preston Townsend , all of which are still operating today . In early adolescence , Frederick attended Massanutten Military Academy for two years . Once he entered high school , his father put him to work , hoping to groom a protege in the industry . Frederick learned about the processing of poultry first hand as a plant laborer at many of his father 's factories on the East Coast . In high school , Frederick was a bright , multi-talented , popular student ; he starred in many school plays and although his primary musical instrument was classical trumpet , he demonstrated from his youth a talent for mastery of a variety of musical instruments . He graduated Seaford High School in 1966 , before attending Shenandoah College and Conservatory Of Music . Under his father 's tutelage , he studied mechanical drafting , and eventually worked as his apprentice in plant overhead conveyor layout designs . All the while , the young musician continued writing and composing his own work , while pursuing aspirations to make it in the music industry . Music career beginnings ( edit ) Bearsville Records and early eps ( edit ) Although he released some early single records in the Philadelphia area in his late teens , and recorded demos for Columbia Records while in college , it was in 1971 , at the age of 23 , Jesse was signed to Albert Grossman 's Bearsville Records . His self - titled debut album , recorded in Nashville and mixed in part by Todd Rundgren , was released in that year . Although the album gained Frederick a lot of respect from his peers , its sales success was limited . In 1973 , Bearsville released a promo 45 featuring both stereo and mono versions of the first single from Frederick 's second album , After the Rain , which would never be released . The single was entitled `` I Belong to You '' . As the 1970s progressed , Frederick would sign with another label , spawning a third album in the process ; as in the last project at Bearsville , it never saw the light of day . In a partnership with producer Jeff Koz ( who had worked with Frederick on some film and video projects ) , Frederick formed the band The Kinetics and released the single , `` Do n't Stand In The Shadow '' , for Columbia Records . Film composing ( edit ) By the late 1970s , Frederick had changed his beat to movie and TV score composing . He performed vocals for the character `` Tommy Dee '' ( played by Paul Land ) in the 1980 Taylor Hackford film The Idolmaker . A single from the picture 's soundtrack , `` Here Is My Love '' , was released in both stereo and mono formats . That same year , Frederick played Alice Cooper 's roadie in the film Roadie . In 1982 , Frederick composed the score for the Troma Entertainment motion picture The Fanatic ( aka The Last Horror Film ) . Many more major theatrical titles would follow , including that of Garry Marshall 's 1984 hit The Flamingo Kid . Foray into TV : Bennett Salvay and Miller / Boyett ( edit ) In the mid-1980s , as a result of his movie scoring work , Frederick began a partnership writer / composer ( Paul ) Bennett Salvay . The two musicians had both come off Garry Marshall - produced projects at the time they began working together . Frederick had just completed his scoring for The Flamingo Kid , while Salvay had been music director in the later seasons of the hit series Happy Days , Laverne & Shirley and Mork & Mindy , for Garry Marshall 's Henderson Productions , Miller - Milkis - Boyett Productions and Paramount Television . The pair found they had a dynamic spark of creativity between them , and sought out work on original compositions that would be pitched to TV and movie projects . As Frederick worked on new musical material with him , Salvay would eventually lead them to new opportunities with his TV employers . When producers Thomas L. Miller and Robert L. Boyett left Paramount for Lorimar Productions in 1984 , they retained many of their former Paramount staffers , including Salvay and ( initially ) music composer Charles Fox . Miller and Boyett quickly set out to develop new projects at Lorimar ( minus their former Paramount partner , Edward K. Milkis ) , and in the process of keeping Salvay on their soundtrack staff , noticed his work with Frederick and commissioned the both of them to be songwriters for their projects , working separately from Fox . In 1985 , Miller and Boyett assigned the pair to their new comedy project for ABC , which was titled The Greenhorn in its early stages . Although it was too early to predict at the time , Frederick and Salvay had just embarked on what would be a long - running alliance with Miller - Boyett Productions . Perfect Strangers ( edit ) When ABC slated the new Miller / Boyett project to premiere on Tuesdays in March 1986 , following some cast changes , it went into official production under the new title , Perfect Strangers . Frederick and Salvay penned their first TV title track , `` Nothing 's Gonna Stop Me Now '' , for the series , which obliquely told the ballad of the show 's two leads -- Balki Bartokomous ( Bronson Pinchot ) and Larry Appleton ( Mark Linn - Baker ) -- as the former had dreams of making it in America from the island of Mypos , while the latter had aspirations to make it in Chicago , after moving from Wisconsin . Perfect Strangers went on to become a hit , running eight seasons on ABC , and made Frederick and Salvay 's songwriting weekly staples in millions of households across the country . While the lyrics were written by Frederick and Salvay , `` Nothing 's Gonna Stop Me Now '' was sung by David Pomeranz . Valerie / Valerie 's Family ( edit ) Beginning in the 1986 - 87 season , Frederick and Salvay were asked to score selected episodes of NBC 's Miller / Boyett - produced sitcom Valerie , which had premiered in March 1986 , three weeks before the debut of Perfect Strangers on ABC . Charles Fox handled composing on Valerie for the show 's first two seasons ( in fact , it was the only Miller / Boyett series from the Lorimar era to use Fox ) , with Bruce Miller taking over regular scoring from seasons three through six . Frederick and Salvay scored three episodes : one which aired in November 1986 , another in April 1987 ( which they co-scored with Steven Chesne ) and a third in the spring of 1988 , after the series had been retitled Valerie 's Family . Full House ( edit ) In 1987 , Frederick and Salvay wrote their second title track for Miller - Boyett , `` Everywhere You Look '' , for the new ABC fall sitcom Full House . This theme had a more love - of - the - family - centric subject in its lyrics , but was in line with their work on other Miller / Boyett shows due to its catchiness and upbeat nature . Full House initially struggled in the ratings , but when ABC scheduled it on Tuesdays in addition to its regular Friday slot for a time in 1988 , it began a gradual increase in audience size . The series became popular in its second season . It then served as the anchor of ABC 's new TGIF lineup in 1989 , where Frederick and Salvay 's work were about to be heavily showcased . Full House cracked the Nielsen top 30 in its third season and the top 20 in its fourth . Well before it reached its peak in seasons five to seven ( where it shot to the top 5 ) , `` Everywhere You Look '' , in its various edits , had become a highly referenced and celebrated song among young viewers . The hook that most heavily caught fans ' delight was the opening line , which pondered , `` Whatever happened to predictability ? The milkman , the paperboy , evening TV ? '' By this point , it was recognized that the strength in Frederick and his partner 's work was found in their knack for lyric - heavy , uplifting compositions . There was a common theme between most : that of realizing one 's dreams , and making a success out of one 's life . It was these ingredients that touched a generation of young viewers especially . Frederick and Salvay 's underscores for Full House , which were more sentimental and instrument - heavy than on earlier hit Perfect Strangers , became the signature sound the two are also most recognized for . There is much speculation that Frederick inspired the creation of one of the series ' main characters . When Full House was in early development in 1986 ( under the working title House of Comics ) , the role eventually given to star John Stamos was that of Adam Cochran , one of three comedians sharing a house in San Francisco . Once the format was revised and the original pilot set to shoot , Stamos ' character became Jesse Cochran ( later renamed Jesse Katsopolis as a nod to Stamos 's Greek ethnicity ) , the super-cool rock musician brother - in - law of Danny Tanner ( played in the unaired pilot by John Posey , before Bob Saget became available for the role ) . Fitting in with the character 's new image , it is believed that naming him `` Jesse '' and turning him into a rocker was inspired by the real - life persona of Frederick . However , series creator Jeff Franklin has stated that when the character was being renamed , he was reminded of Elvis Presley 's twin brother Jesse , who had died at a young age . In 2015 , `` Everywhere You Look '' was re-recorded with Carly Rae Jepsen on vocals for Full House 's Netflix sequel series , Fuller House . Family Matters ( edit ) Joining ABC 's established Miller / Boyett shows on the newly developed TGIF in September 1989 was Family Matters , a spin - off from Perfect Strangers . Frederick and Salvay scored the scenes and the closing theme alone during the series ' first few episodes . During the first five ABC broadcasts , the title track was a shortened version of Louis Armstrong 's `` What A Wonderful World '' . The closing theme that Frederick and Salvay wrote and recorded was a melody loosely based on `` What A Wonderful World '' , featuring a more uptempo beat dominated by saxophone and culminating in an orchestral crescendo . By the sixth episode of Family Matters , Miller and Boyett , along with show creators William Bickley and Michael Warren , decided that they wanted a more sitcom-esque opening theme for the show . Frederick and Salvay wrote an original title track featuring a jazzy , ragtime piano prologue leading into an upbeat melody , again using high orchestration . Titled `` As Days Go By '' , it was sung by Frederick with a back - up chorus of male singers . Family Matters was only a moderate success until Jaleel White 's Steve Urkel was added in early 1990 , becoming the show 's breakout character . `` As Days Go By '' remained as the Family Matters theme in various forms until the beginning of the show 's seventh season . It was n't until the start of the series ' fifth season in 1993 that Frederick and Salvay composed a closing version of `` As Days Go By '' ; it was a hip - hop sounding rendition with a saxophone domination . The melody was slightly altered so that it did n't closely match the notes of the opening version . 1990s success ( edit ) In 1990 , the works of Frederick and Salvay received dramatically increased air time in the US . Perfect Strangers went into rerun syndication that fall . As a result , their music was being played on a five - days - a-week basis . Further , Miller / Boyett had just acquired a complete programming stake in ABC 's hit TGIF lineup , having four of their comedies air back - to - back . Full House , Family Matters and Perfect Strangers were joined by freshman series Going Places . Frederick and Salvay composed all music for Going Places , but for the first time since Perfect Strangers , had another singer , Mark Lennon , perform the theme . Over at CBS , Miller / Boyett 's other new series The Family Man was airing on Saturday nights alongside the producers ' NBC series The Hogan Family ( the former Valerie and Valerie 's Family ) , which had switched networks . The Hogan Family was the only Miller / Boyett series from the Lorimar era to have not utilized Frederick and Salvay for most of its run , aside from the selected episodes they scored in 1986 - 88 . The two worked on The Family Man , which boasted a first for both the musical team and Miller / Boyett ; it was the first series in the group to have an instrumental opening theme . Programs that ensued for the duo included Step By Step in 1991 . The latter 's title track , `` Second Time Around '' , was sung by Frederick in a duet with Teresa James . It illustrated the story of the show 's newly married couple , Frank Lambert ( Patrick Duffy ) and Carol Foster ( Suzanne Somers ) , as they had visions of mixing their households of kids together . Step By Step was another TGIF hit , running six seasons on ABC and its seventh and final on CBS . From 1992 to 1994 , Frederick and Salvay 's newest project with Miller / Boyett was at first titled A New Day in its earliest development . Following a revamp in its creation ( by Bickley / Warren ) , it premiered on TGIF in March 1993 as Getting By . The series had two different theme songs during each of its two seasons , the second of which aired on NBC . The first theme that Frederick and Salvay wrote was sentimental in nature with woodwind instrumentation , and sung by Mark Lennon . The second theme had the funk / hip - hop sound that had started to be heard on sister shows such as Family Matters , and had a different male vocalist . In 1994 , the two worked on Miller / Boyett 's single - season comedy On Our Own . It starred Ralph Louis Harris and the six Smollett siblings as a family learning to fend for themselves after the death of their parents . The series ' theme , one in a long line of feel - good , inspirational tunes from Frederick and Salvay , was performed by Joe Turano . In the later years of their run with Miller / Boyett , Frederick and Salvay would alternate score composing duties with other resident talents such as Steven Chesne and Gary Boren . On some series , such as Perfect Strangers in its last few seasons , the two were replaced entirely ( in this case , by Boren ) . After the conclusion of Full House and cancelation of On Our Own , both in 1995 , Frederick and Salvay continued work on most remaining Miller / Boyett shows . However , there would be no new projects from the producers until 1997 , when Miller and Boyett developed the new CBS comedy Meego , Bronson Pinchot 's third series with the production company ( earlier in 1997 , Pinchot had been a series regular on Step By Step ) . Meego , which aired on the network 's new `` Block Party '' lineup ( a TGIF clone ) , was a departure from the usual production and musical styles of both Miller / Boyett and Frederick and Salvay . The sentimental , upbeat rock - flavored scores from earlier shows were substituted by pieces with strictly orchestral sounds , which seem most fitting for a show about an alien who crashed - landed on Earth , and who was now living with an American family ( headed by Ed Begley , Jr . ) in the series . After only a month on the air , Meego was canceled due to disappointing ratings . Frederick and Salvay continued working for their longtime employers , even as their parent production companies went through further changes in the late 1990s . In 1997 , Michael Warren began the transition of splitting away professionally from William Bickley . The former teamed up with Miller and Boyett , forming Miller - Boyett - Warren Productions , initially to produce Meego . Bickley - Warren Productions remained active for one more season ( 1997 -- 98 ) to produce the final season of Family Matters and Step By Step , which both were cancelled by CBS ( the network both series had moved to that season ) in 1998 . Miller - Boyett - Warren had a new project for ABC in the works for that fall , which would end up being the final TV series project for Frederick and Salvay , as well as for the producers . That September , Two of a Kind , starring Mary - Kate and Ashley Olsen , premiered . Frederick and Salvay wrote their shortest opening title track to date for this series ; however , Two of a Kind 's instrumental theme was a return to the acoustic guitar - dominated , upbeat tunes that that two were known for , especially on the Olsens ' former series , Full House . Two of a Kind , despite favorable reviews , folded in the spring of 1999 after one season . Return to television scoring ( edit ) In 2015 , Full House creator Jeff Franklin , along with Miller and Boyett , were all underway in launching the long - rumored revival series to Full House , entitled Fuller House . It marked the first time since the late 1990s that Jeff Franklin Productions and Miller - Boyett Productions were active in TV series producing , and ultimately , that Frederick and Salvay were working on music compositions for episodic television . As Fuller House moved into production , the producers were successful in courting Frederick and Salvay back to compose the score and theme music for the show ; the pair oversaw all music arrangement for the entire 13 - episode first season , which premiered on Netflix on February 26 , 2016 . While Frederick and Salvay worked on the incidental scene change music together , they formed a partnership with singer Carly Rae Jepsen and songwriter / producer Butch Walker to remix `` Everywhere You Look '' in new vocal and instrumental forms , those of which would serve as the opening and closing themes to Fuller House . Jepsen performed the opening vocals to `` Everywhere You Look '' , and the official commercial release of the song features never - before released verses that Frederick , Salvay and Jeff Franklin wrote for the track back in 1987 , but of which were never included in broadcasts of Full House . Work with other TV producers ( edit ) During his years co-writing with Bennett Salvay , Frederick occasionally received work with other TV producers . In 1986 , he and Salvay wrote the theme song to the short - lived CBS sitcom Better Days , a Lorimar series from producers Jeff Freilich , Stuart Sheslow and Arthur Silver . The Better Days title track has the distinction of being the first TV theme written by the two that Frederick performed vocals on ( predating his performance of `` Everywhere You Look '' on Full House ) . Later , they wrote a more saccharine - tinged theme for the just - as - short - lived spring 1988 ABC comedy Family Man ( no relation to the similarly titled Miller - Boyett series of two years later ) , which Frederick also performed . Also in 1988 , due to their primary employment on sitcoms produced by Lorimar , Frederick and Salvay scored selected episodes of CBS ' Falcon Crest , a dramatic Lorimar production . In 1992 , Frederick and Salvay were asked by Full House creator Jeff Franklin to handle scoring duties , with Gary Boren , on his new ABC sitcom Hangin ' With Mr. Cooper . The series was produced by Franklin and Lorimar Television ( later Warner Bros. Television from seasons two through five ) , but not by Miller - Boyett Productions during any point in its run . Frederick and Salvay handled scene scoring during the first season only . Over a year after their departure , Bickley - Warren Productions became a co-producer of Cooper . References ( edit ) Jump up ^ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/carly-rae-jepsen-talks-fuller-house-theme-song-20160222 External links ( edit ) Jesse Frederick on IMDb VIAF : 63210475 LCCN : n92110625 MusicBrainz : 1c89f1c5 - 8d57 - 46e3 - 959b - b41567ced7b0 Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jesse_Frederick&oldid=820280665 '' Categories : American television composers Living people 1948 births People from Salisbury , Maryland People from Seaford , Delaware Hidden categories : Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers Date of birth missing ( living people ) Talk Contents About Wikipedia Deutsch Español Edit links This page was last edited on 14 January 2018 , at 01 : 10 . 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Jesse Frederick James Conaway ( born 1948 ) , known professionally as Jesse Frederick , is an American film and television composer and singer best known for writing and performing the themes to TGIF television shows such as Perfect Strangers , Full House , Family Matters , and Step By Step for ABC . Frederick was born Jesse Frederick James Conaway in Salisbury , Maryland , and was raised in Seaford , Delaware . He was the youngest of two children . His brother , Everett Thomas ( Tommy ) Conaway , Jr. ( 1944 - 1956 ) , died of Cystic Fibrosis at 12 years of age . In his early childhood , Jesse was familiarly known as `` Freddy '' before legally dropping the James Conaway from his name in his later teens . This was done in an attempt to distinguish himself from the legacy of his father , Everett T. `` Conny '' Conaway , Sr. ( 1915 - 2010 ) . Conny was a prominent figure in the poultry processing industry . During his unprecedented 70 - year career , the senior Conaway designed and built some of the earliest processing plants for Allen Family Foods , Frank Perdue and Preston Townsend , all of which are still operating today . In early adolescence , Frederick attended Massanutten Military Academy for two years . Once he entered high school , his father put him to work , hoping to groom a protege in the industry . Frederick learned about the processing of poultry first hand as a plant laborer at many of his father 's factories on the East Coast . In high school , Frederick was a bright , multi-talented , popular student ; he starred in many school plays and although his primary musical instrument was classical trumpet , he demonstrated from his youth a talent for mastery of a variety of musical instruments . He graduated Seaford High School in 1966 , before attending Shenandoah College and Conservatory Of Music . Under his father 's tutelage , he studied mechanical drafting , and eventually worked as his apprentice in plant overhead conveyor layout designs . All the while , the young musician continued writing and composing his own work , while pursuing aspirations to make it in the music industry . Although he released some early single records in the Philadelphia area in his late teens , and recorded demos for Columbia Records while in college , it was in 1971 , at the age of 23 , Jesse was signed to Albert Grossman 's Bearsville Records . His self - titled debut album , recorded in Nashville and mixed in part by Todd Rundgren , was released in that year . Although the album gained Frederick a lot of respect from his peers , its sales success was limited . In 1973 , Bearsville released a promo 45 featuring both stereo and mono versions of the first single from Frederick 's second album , After the Rain , which would never be released . The single was entitled `` I Belong to You '' . As the 1970s progressed , Frederick would sign with another label , spawning a third album in the process ; as in the last project at Bearsville , it never saw the light of day . In a partnership with producer Jeff Koz ( who had worked with Frederick on some film and video projects ) , Frederick formed the band The Kinetics and released the single , `` Do n't Stand In The Shadow '' , for Columbia Records . By the late 1970s , Frederick had changed his beat to movie and TV score composing . He performed vocals for the character `` Tommy Dee '' ( played by Paul Land ) in the 1980 Taylor Hackford film The Idolmaker . A single from the picture 's soundtrack , `` Here Is My Love '' , was released in both stereo and mono formats . That same year , Frederick played Alice Cooper 's roadie in the film Roadie . In 1982 , Frederick composed the score for the Troma Entertainment motion picture The Fanatic ( aka The Last Horror Film ) . Many more major theatrical titles would follow , including that of Garry Marshall 's 1984 hit The Flamingo Kid . In the mid-1980s , as a result of his movie scoring work , Frederick began a partnership writer / composer ( Paul ) Bennett Salvay . The two musicians had both come off Garry Marshall - produced projects at the time they began working together . Frederick had just completed his scoring for The Flamingo Kid , while Salvay had been music director in the later seasons of the hit series Happy Days , Laverne & Shirley and Mork & Mindy , for Garry Marshall 's Henderson Productions , Miller - Milkis - Boyett Productions and Paramount Television . The pair found they had a dynamic spark of creativity between them , and sought out work on original compositions that would be pitched to TV and movie projects . As Frederick worked on new musical material with him , Salvay would eventually lead them to new opportunities with his TV employers . When producers Thomas L. Miller and Robert L. Boyett left Paramount for Lorimar Productions in 1984 , they retained many of their former Paramount staffers , including Salvay and ( initially ) music composer Charles Fox . Miller and Boyett quickly set out to develop new projects at Lorimar ( minus their former Paramount partner , Edward K. Milkis ) , and in the process of keeping Salvay on their soundtrack staff , noticed his work with Frederick and commissioned the both of them to be songwriters for their projects , working separately from Fox . In 1985 , Miller and Boyett assigned the pair to their new comedy project for ABC , which was titled The Greenhorn in its early stages . Although it was too early to predict at the time , Frederick and Salvay had just embarked on what would be a long - running alliance with Miller - Boyett Productions . When ABC slated the new Miller / Boyett project to premiere on Tuesdays in March 1986 , following some cast changes , it went into official production under the new title , Perfect Strangers . Frederick and Salvay penned their first TV title track , `` Nothing 's Gonna Stop Me Now '' , for the series , which obliquely told the ballad of the show 's two leads -- Balki Bartokomous ( Bronson Pinchot ) and Larry Appleton ( Mark Linn - Baker ) -- as the former had dreams of making it in America from the island of Mypos , while the latter had aspirations to make it in Chicago , after moving from Wisconsin . Perfect Strangers went on to become a hit , running eight seasons on ABC , and made Frederick and Salvay 's songwriting weekly staples in millions of households across the country . While the lyrics were written by Frederick and Salvay , `` Nothing 's Gonna Stop Me Now '' was sung by David Pomeranz . Beginning in the 1986 - 87 season , Frederick and Salvay were asked to score selected episodes of NBC 's Miller / Boyett - produced sitcom Valerie , which had premiered in March 1986 , three weeks before the debut of Perfect Strangers on ABC . Charles Fox handled composing on Valerie for the show 's first two seasons ( in fact , it was the only Miller / Boyett series from the Lorimar era to use Fox ) , with Bruce Miller taking over regular scoring from seasons three through six . Frederick and Salvay scored three episodes : one which aired in November 1986 , another in April 1987 ( which they co-scored with Steven Chesne ) and a third in the spring of 1988 , after the series had been retitled Valerie 's Family . In 1987 , Frederick and Salvay wrote their second title track for Miller - Boyett , `` Everywhere You Look '' , for the new ABC fall sitcom Full House . This theme had a more love - of - the - family - centric subject in its lyrics , but was in line with their work on other Miller / Boyett shows due to its catchiness and upbeat nature . Full House initially struggled in the ratings , but when ABC scheduled it on Tuesdays in addition to its regular Friday slot for a time in 1988 , it began a gradual increase in audience size . The series became popular in its second season . It then served as the anchor of ABC 's new TGIF lineup in 1989 , where Frederick and Salvay 's work were about to be heavily showcased . Full House cracked the Nielsen top 30 in its third season and the top 20 in its fourth . Well before it reached its peak in seasons five to seven ( where it shot to the top 5 ) , `` Everywhere You Look '' , in its various edits , had become a highly referenced and celebrated song among young viewers . The hook that most heavily caught fans ' delight was the opening line , which pondered , `` Whatever happened to predictability ? The milkman , the paperboy , evening TV ? '' By this point , it was recognized that the strength in Frederick and his partner 's work was found in their knack for lyric - heavy , uplifting compositions . There was a common theme between most : that of realizing one 's dreams , and making a success out of one 's life . It was these ingredients that touched a generation of young viewers especially . Frederick and Salvay 's underscores for Full House , which were more sentimental and instrument - heavy than on earlier hit Perfect Strangers , became the signature sound the two are also most recognized for . There is much speculation that Frederick inspired the creation of one of the series ' main characters . When Full House was in early development in 1986 ( under the working title House of Comics ) , the role eventually given to star John Stamos was that of Adam Cochran , one of three comedians sharing a house in San Francisco . Once the format was revised and the original pilot set to shoot , Stamos ' character became Jesse Cochran ( later renamed Jesse Katsopolis as a nod to Stamos 's Greek ethnicity ) , the super-cool rock musician brother - in - law of Danny Tanner ( played in the unaired pilot by John Posey , before Bob Saget became available for the role ) . Fitting in with the character 's new image , it is believed that naming him `` Jesse '' and turning him into a rocker was inspired by the real - life persona of Frederick . However , series creator Jeff Franklin has stated that when the character was being renamed , he was reminded of Elvis Presley 's twin brother Jesse , who had died at a young age . In 2015 , `` Everywhere You Look '' was re-recorded with Carly Rae Jepsen on vocals for Full House 's Netflix sequel series , Fuller House . Joining ABC 's established Miller / Boyett shows on the newly developed TGIF in September 1989 was Family Matters , a spin - off from Perfect Strangers . Frederick and Salvay scored the scenes and the closing theme alone during the series ' first few episodes . During the first five ABC broadcasts , the title track was a shortened version of Louis Armstrong 's `` What A Wonderful World '' . The closing theme that Frederick and Salvay wrote and recorded was a melody loosely based on `` What A Wonderful World '' , featuring a more uptempo beat dominated by saxophone and culminating in an orchestral crescendo . By the sixth episode of Family Matters , Miller and Boyett , along with show creators William Bickley and Michael Warren , decided that they wanted a more sitcom-esque opening theme for the show . Frederick and Salvay wrote an original title track featuring a jazzy , ragtime piano prologue leading into an upbeat melody , again using high orchestration . Titled `` As Days Go By '' , it was sung by Frederick with a back - up chorus of male singers . Family Matters was only a moderate success until Jaleel White 's Steve Urkel was added in early 1990 , becoming the show 's breakout character . `` As Days Go By '' remained as the Family Matters theme in various forms until the beginning of the show 's seventh season . It was n't until the start of the series ' fifth season in 1993 that Frederick and Salvay composed a closing version of `` As Days Go By '' ; it was a hip - hop sounding rendition with a saxophone domination . The melody was slightly altered so that it did n't closely match the notes of the opening version . In 1990 , the works of Frederick and Salvay received dramatically increased air time in the US . Perfect Strangers went into rerun syndication that fall . As a result , their music was being played on a five - days - a-week basis . Further , Miller / Boyett had just acquired a complete programming stake in ABC 's hit TGIF lineup , having four of their comedies air back - to - back . Full House , Family Matters and Perfect Strangers were joined by freshman series Going Places . Frederick and Salvay composed all music for Going Places , but for the first time since Perfect Strangers , had another singer , Mark Lennon , perform the theme . Over at CBS , Miller / Boyett 's other new series The Family Man was airing on Saturday nights alongside the producers ' NBC series The Hogan Family ( the former Valerie and Valerie 's Family ) , which had switched networks . The Hogan Family was the only Miller / Boyett series from the Lorimar era to have not utilized Frederick and Salvay for most of its run , aside from the selected episodes they scored in 1986 - 88 . The two worked on The Family Man , which boasted a first for both the musical team and Miller / Boyett ; it was the first series in the group to have an instrumental opening theme . Programs that ensued for the duo included Step By Step in 1991 . The latter 's title track , `` Second Time Around '' , was sung by Frederick in a duet with Teresa James . It illustrated the story of the show 's newly married couple , Frank Lambert ( Patrick Duffy ) and Carol Foster ( Suzanne Somers ) , as they had visions of mixing their households of kids together . Step By Step was another TGIF hit , running six seasons on ABC and its seventh and final on CBS . From 1992 to 1994 , Frederick and Salvay 's newest project with Miller / Boyett was at first titled A New Day in its earliest development . Following a revamp in its creation ( by Bickley / Warren ) , it premiered on TGIF in March 1993 as Getting By . The series had two different theme songs during each of its two seasons , the second of which aired on NBC . The first theme that Frederick and Salvay wrote was sentimental in nature with woodwind instrumentation , and sung by Mark Lennon . The second theme had the funk / hip - hop sound that had started to be heard on sister shows such as Family Matters , and had a different male vocalist . In 1994 , the two worked on Miller / Boyett 's single - season comedy On Our Own . It starred Ralph Louis Harris and the six Smollett siblings as a family learning to fend for themselves after the death of their parents . The series ' theme , one in a long line of feel - good , inspirational tunes from Frederick and Salvay , was performed by Joe Turano . In the later years of their run with Miller / Boyett , Frederick and Salvay would alternate score composing duties with other resident talents such as Steven Chesne and Gary Boren . On some series , such as Perfect Strangers in its last few seasons , the two were replaced entirely ( in this case , by Boren ) . After the conclusion of Full House and cancelation of On Our Own , both in 1995 , Frederick and Salvay continued work on most remaining Miller / Boyett shows . However , there would be no new projects from the producers until 1997 , when Miller and Boyett developed the new CBS comedy Meego , Bronson Pinchot 's third series with the production company ( earlier in 1997 , Pinchot had been a series regular on Step By Step ) . Meego , which aired on the network 's new `` Block Party '' lineup ( a TGIF clone ) , was a departure from the usual production and musical styles of both Miller / Boyett and Frederick and Salvay . The sentimental , upbeat rock - flavored scores from earlier shows were substituted by pieces with strictly orchestral sounds , which seem most fitting for a show about an alien who crashed - landed on Earth , and who was now living with an American family ( headed by Ed Begley , Jr . ) in the series . After only a month on the air , Meego was canceled due to disappointing ratings . Frederick and Salvay continued working for their longtime employers , even as their parent production companies went through further changes in the late 1990s . In 1997 , Michael Warren began the transition of splitting away professionally from William Bickley . The former teamed up with Miller and Boyett , forming Miller - Boyett - Warren Productions , initially to produce Meego . Bickley - Warren Productions remained active for one more season ( 1997 -- 98 ) to produce the final season of Family Matters and Step By Step , which both were cancelled by CBS ( the network both series had moved to that season ) in 1998 . Miller - Boyett - Warren had a new project for ABC in the works for that fall , which would end up being the final TV series project for Frederick and Salvay , as well as for the producers . That September , Two of a Kind , starring Mary - Kate and Ashley Olsen , premiered . Frederick and Salvay wrote their shortest opening title track to date for this series ; however , Two of a Kind 's instrumental theme was a return to the acoustic guitar - dominated , upbeat tunes that that two were known for , especially on the Olsens ' former series , Full House . Two of a Kind , despite favorable reviews , folded in the spring of 1999 after one season . In 2015 , Full House creator Jeff Franklin , along with Miller and Boyett , were all underway in launching the long - rumored revival series to Full House , entitled Fuller House . It marked the first time since the late 1990s that Jeff Franklin Productions and Miller - Boyett Productions were active in TV series producing , and ultimately , that Frederick and Salvay were working on music compositions for episodic television . As Fuller House moved into production , the producers were successful in courting Frederick and Salvay back to compose the score and theme music for the show ; the pair oversaw all music arrangement for the entire 13 - episode first season , which premiered on Netflix on February 26 , 2016 . While Frederick and Salvay worked on the incidental scene change music together , they formed a partnership with singer Carly Rae Jepsen and songwriter / producer Butch Walker to remix `` Everywhere You Look '' in new vocal and instrumental forms , those of which would serve as the opening and closing themes to Fuller House . Jepsen performed the opening vocals to `` Everywhere You Look '' , and the official commercial release of the song features never - before released verses that Frederick , Salvay and Jeff Franklin wrote for the track back in 1987 , but of which were never included in broadcasts of Full House . During his years co-writing with Bennett Salvay , Frederick occasionally received work with other TV producers . In 1986 , he and Salvay wrote the theme song to the short - lived CBS sitcom Better Days , a Lorimar series from producers Jeff Freilich , Stuart Sheslow and Arthur Silver . The Better Days title track has the distinction of being the first TV theme written by the two that Frederick performed vocals on ( predating his performance of `` Everywhere You Look '' on Full House ) . Later , they wrote a more saccharine - tinged theme for the just - as - short - lived spring 1988 ABC comedy Family Man ( no relation to the similarly titled Miller - Boyett series of two years later ) , which Frederick also performed . Also in 1988 , due to their primary employment on sitcoms produced by Lorimar , Frederick and Salvay scored selected episodes of CBS ' Falcon Crest , a dramatic Lorimar production . In 1992 , Frederick and Salvay were asked by Full House creator Jeff Franklin to handle scoring duties , with Gary Boren , on his new ABC sitcom Hangin ' With Mr. Cooper . The series was produced by Franklin and Lorimar Television ( later Warner Bros. Television from seasons two through five ) , but not by Miller - Boyett Productions during any point in its run . Frederick and Salvay handled scene scoring during the first season only . Over a year after their departure , Bickley - Warren Productions became a co-producer of Cooper .
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