“Before Friends we’d been playing all these underground venues," Wilde said. As the song exploded at radio and started to climb the charts, the unexpected success actually proved to be detrimental to the band. The newly expanded version of "I'll Be There for You" was sent to US radio stations on May 23, 1995, landing as the last song on the Rembrandts' third album, L.P. They don't have credit on the theme, but they have it on the record." So the song needed a bridge, and it needed a second verse lyric, and they wrote that. At that point, the only way they could get the Rembrandts to do the record was if they got songwriting credit. And it became the #1 airplay record of the year, but the Rembrandts never wanted it out as a single because they didn't write the song. "It was just DJs who made a cassette of the song and just started playing it. "It was never, ever to this day released as a single," Willis dished. Given the immediate and stratospheric success of the TV show, it wasn't long before there was a serious demand for "I'll Be There for You" as a single. During the first season, we weren’t even listed on the credits.” "So we thought ‘Why not? Nobody will even know it was us, anyway’. “We liked immediately, and it had some good people working on it," recalled Rembrandts singer Danny Wilde said. "That no matter how screwed up your life was, I'll be there for you." The infectious tune was written by legendary writer Allee Willis and Michael Skloff: "I had seen the pilot, and that one line ('I'll Be There For You') had been given to me by Michael Skloff, who had started on the music, and it was just supposed to be about the loyalty of friends," the late Willis (she died in 2019) explained to Independent UK. The show arrived with a very catchy theme song that got so big it was transformed into a top 20 hit. September 22, 1994, is a monumental date in TV sitcom history: that's when NBC introduced the world to Ross, Rachel, Phoebe, Monica, Chandler and Joey with the debut of Friends.
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