One day, (May 11, 1987 to be exact) shortly before
Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge
Lizards was due to ship, I realized it didn't
have a theme song. (Remember, back in 1987, most
games only had music on their title screens, if
there!)
Gosh, maybe I'd better slap something together?
I
happened to hear a story on National Public Radio's
All Things Considered that day about how
it was Irving Berlin's 99th birthday that day. When
they played his 1929 song, Alexander's Ragtime
Band, it sounded so unusual, so, different,
so fresh 
ccompared to most computer game music, that
I decided to write something with the same pep,
simplicity, humor, and out-of-sync attitude. I sat
down at the piano, and within about 20 minutes,
I had finished the Leisure Suit Larry Theme.
I didn't spend a lot of time polishing or perfecting
it. What the hell? It was only for a computer game,
where most people would never hear more than a few
beeps and boops of the melody, and that only through
those horrible IBM-compatible tweakers. Why bother?
Little did I know that over the next decade my silly
little ditty would be heard by millions of gamers,
many of whom have sworn revenge against me for making
it so "whistle-able" that they can't get
it out of their heads!
Creating the 