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“The studio didn’t want to pay for singers. So I recorded it,” he says. “I sang it and I overdubbed myself three times so it sounds like a group. When you hear the Addams Family on TV or any place, that’s me singing it.”

It is an achievement that Mr Mizzy is rightly proud of. Sitting in his luxury home in the upmarket Bel Air district of Los Angeles, the shrewd businessman reflects on the impact The Addams Family had on his life. “First, it meant money,’ he explains. “The second thing was money and the third thing was money.”

Mr Mizzy never had an agent and always negotiated his own contracts – crucially holding on to the publishing rights for his work. “The Addams Family is the number one song performed in the United States at sporting events – baseball games. I get performance money.” “The organist goes ‘da-da-da-dum’ and I get paid for that,” he says, with a smile.