What other programs and movies have I'll.Be.There.For.You used?

No, that is, Friends became famous with the song

"Rembrandt"

"No one told you that life would be like this", and then there were four iconic applause ... Every episode of Friends, after listening to the first humorous dialogue, we can welcome the theme song named "For you, I will be there". Easy-to-catch melody and simple rhythm, this 42-second theme song rose rapidly on the charts with the popularity of Friends, ranking first on the billboard radio broadcast list for eight weeks in a row, and the previously unknown singing band Rembrandt also became famous.

This song composed by Michael Skolov and written by Ali Willis was originally tailored for Michael stipe and Natalie Merchant, but the two singers refused to appear. So, the crew thought of Rembrandt, a band composed of two singers, Danny Wilder and Phil Solem, who like to wear black clothes and sunglasses. It is generally believed in the music industry that these two people have the same harmonious voices as John Lennon and George McCartney.

At that time, no one would have predicted that Friends would be so successful. Rembrandt just thought it would make a small sum of money anyway, so why not? Solem later recalled: "At that time, we didn't expect this series to be so popular. We just think it's a good way to earn extra income, and it's also a good way to add TV experience to your resume. " Wilder said: "We thought, wouldn't it be fun to listen to our voices on TV? No one will know that it is us. "

In fact, if they didn't sing this theme song, so many people wouldn't know about them. Wilder and Solem were both born in 1956 and grew up in the era of rock and roll flower girl. In 1976, they met in a song and dance hotel in Los Angeles, and they had known each other for 18 years when they filmed the theme song of Friends. Wilder and Solem, who both have wives and children, didn't set up Rembrandt until 199. The name was borrowed from the great Dutch painter in the 17th century, but an s was added to the name of Rembrandt.

Before For You, I'll Be There, their most successful single was Baby, That's It, but it wasn't a very popular song. Wilder later recalled: "Yes, sometimes things happen like this, and you seize an opportunity. This opportunity may be only once in ten years for an artist. "

The DJ of the radio station immediately realized this beautiful song. They recorded it on TV, played it over and over again on the radio, and managed to make up a single length of three minutes. At this time, Rembrandt's third CD "Compact Disc" is undergoing the final suppression work, and a single has been sent to the radio station as the main track, but the record company, which is sensitive to the smell of money, decided to add the fifteenth song "For you, I will be there" to the already crowded CD.

Wilder recalled, "We were cornered. Radio stations all over the United States are playing this song ... We decided to cut out a version that can represent our interpretation. " Due to the tight time, the name of this song was not even printed on the cover of the CD. Wilder said: "They have already copied 25, copies. Some people say that we should destroy them all and then do the binding again because we have enough time, but we think it will be a waste of plastic because we are environmentalists. We have participated in saving whales. " Finally, this CD became a platinum record.

However, the brilliant peak was short-lived, and the appreciation of Rembrandt as mainstream music made them lose their original fans. Too many broadcasts finally made fans tired, and even MTV, which invited six stars of Friends to play together, failed to recover the decline, and the careers of two "Rembrandt" singers quickly went downhill. They even broke up and went solo for a time, but in 1998, Wilder's CD "Spin It" was widely criticized, but it was a fiasco in the sales market. Wilder never recovered after that.

In 21, they got back together and made a record called Disappear Together, but their magic obviously disappeared with For You, I'll be there. Wilder has no regrets about recording the theme song of Friends. He said: "I can't influence other people's thoughts in the world ... I'm not ashamed of this song, it puts us into history."