Frasier - The Making of Tossed Salad & Scrambled Eggs - Kelsey Grammer (Frasier Crane) and composer Bruce Miller share the story of how the iconic tune "Tossed Salad & Scrambled Eggs" first came to be. This video was previously recorded.
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00:00 Frazier has not left the building. He's back. Back for good.
00:07 Y'all know how this goes.
00:09 Hey baby I hear the blues a-callin', tossed salads and scrambled eggs.
00:16 When they came up with the show Frazier, they called and wanted a theme.
00:21 They wanted something that was kind of jazzy.
00:25 So I wrote the song itself. I wrote the music.
00:28 Then I called my friend Darryl Finnessy to do the lyrics.
00:32 The instructions for the lyrics were, I remember David Angel saying,
00:35 "Don't mention Seattle. Don't mention Frazier. Don't mention psychiatrists.
00:40 Don't mention anything having to do with the show, but make it germane to the show."
00:44 So Darryl did a good job with tossed salads and scrambled eggs. Things that are mixed up.
00:50 When the show first went out, when we cut the pilot together, it didn't have music yet.
00:55 They hadn't bought it yet. So Bruce came up with this tune.
01:00 I actually said to the producers, "Oh by the way, I'm going to sing this song."
01:05 Because I always wanted to sing a theme song.
01:07 I thought, "Well, it's my time. This is the only shot I'll ever have."
01:10 So I told them I'm doing the theme song. They said, "Well, okay."
01:15 It's nice when you have an actor that can sing.
01:17 Thank you.
01:18 You use it.
01:19 Maybe I hear the blues a-callin', tossed salads and scrambled eggs.
01:26 And maybe I seem a bit confused.
01:28 Yeah, maybe.
01:29 But I got you pegged.
01:32 The thing I liked about the original spirit of the theme song, what we ended up having,
01:36 was the fact that he's always discovering life.
01:39 That it's always confusing. There's always something that'll surprise you.
01:42 But he's going to figure it out. And that's what I liked.
01:45 I got you pegged. It's going to be okay. I got this.
01:49 Yeah, so I like the first part of the penultimate one, and the second part of the last one.
01:54 And you guys can mix in what you like.
01:56 Yeah, we'll comp it. I mean, obviously you'll approve, but we'll just go through.
01:59 We'll shoot it to you.
02:00 Fantastic.
02:01 And the last bunch, the more mellow ones, we'll just go with those.
02:03 Really like those, yeah. That's where I wanted it to be.
02:06 It's infused with personality. It's really fun.
02:08 And you can almost believe that it's the way Frazier would actually look at music.
02:13 It's been a fun kind of melding of two styles.
02:16 I'm really happy with where we are, and we're going to turn some heads.
02:22 Hey baby, I hear the blues are calling
02:24 Tossed salads and scrambled eggs
02:28 And maybe I seem a bit confused
02:30 Yeah, maybe, but I got you pegged
02:33 Ha ha ha ha
02:35 But I don't know what to do
02:37 With those tossed salads and scrambled eggs
02:42 Life's calling again
02:45 Goodnight Boston, we love you!
02:48 [Music]