who sings the theme song for the show the nanny
Ann Hampton Callaway Liz Callaway
title: Ann Hampton Callaway text: Ann Hampton Callaway Ann Hampton Callaway (born May 30, 1958) is a jazz singer, songwriter, and actress. She wrote and sang the theme song for the TV series "The Nanny". A native of Chicago, her father, John Callaway, was a journalist and her mother is a singer, pianist, and vocal coach. She learned scat singing from her father and a love of jazz from his record collection, and she learned classical music from her mother. Her sister, Liz Callaway, is a singer and actress on Broadway. Callaway performed in musicals at New Trier High School in Winnetka. After graduation, she title: The Nanny text: in an episode in which Maxwell appeared as a star on the show's board as a replacement for Andrew Lloyd Webber. Tyne Daly appeared as a fellow nanny facing forced retirement. David Letterman made an uncredited appearance during a fantasy sequence, where Fran describes how she exaggerated her fame to impress a pen pal. The theme song featured in the pilot was a version of "If My Friends Could See Me Now", performed by Gwen Verdon from the 1966 Broadway musical "Sweet Charity". Following the pilot, the theme changed to "The Nanny Named Fran", written by Ann Hampton Callaway and title: The Nanny text: performed by her and her sister Liz Callaway. Two instrumental versions of the theme song were used in the closing credits: one that is a direct instrumental version of the theme (used only in a few season one episodes), and another with a slightly different arrangement. The opening sequence for the pilot featured Fran in front of a white background, getting herself made up going to work as the nanny; at the end of the sequence, it shows Fran heading toward a stroller and a lipstick print appears to the above right. Along with the change of the theme song title: Liz Callaway text: Liz Callaway released in 2015. Callaway and her sister, singer and composer Ann Hampton Callaway, sang the theme song for the Fran Drescher comedy series "The Nanny", composed by Hampton Callaway. The Callaway sisters have appeared together in a number of cabaret and stage productions. Recordings of two of them, "Sibling Revelry", recorded live at Rainbow and Stars in 1995 and "Boom!" recorded live at Birdland in 2011, have been released. Liz Callaway is married to former actor and acclaimed director Dan Foster. Foster is one of the three founding producers of the Hudson Stage Company, a non-profit, professional theatre title: If My Friends Could See Me Now text: the original 1966 Broadway production of "Sweet Charity": the song also appears on the cast recordings for the 1986 and 2005 Broadway revivals of "Sweet Charity" being performed by respectively Debbie Allen and Christina Applegate. The Gwen Verdon recording of "If My Friends Could See Me Now" was utilized as the theme song for the pilot episode of the CBS-TV sitcom "The Nanny" although an original song entitled "The Nanny Named Fran" served as the theme song for the series' subsequent episodes: airings of "The Nanny"'s pilot episode in syndication utilize "The Nanny Named Fran" as that episode's theme song