I've already written here about the wonderful Dick Van Dyke Show salute last Saturday evening at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood. Here's about five minutes of it as shot by someone who had a much better seat than I did. This is part of Carl Reiner's explanation of how the series came to be…
And then later in the festivities, Mr. Van Dyke and his musical group The Vantastix, sang the theme song. The song was written by Earle Hagen as an instrumental but later Morey Amsterdam took it upon himself to write lyrics. They were never published anywhere but Dick had a copy…