Well, it certainly would have been a much different song were that, in fact, the case.

This morning our paper had a tiny blurb about Sonny Curtis, one of the original Crickets, who was in Iowa as part of the 50th Anniversary of Buddy Holly's death. Curtis was talking about how he came to write "Love is All Around," the Mary Tyler Moor theme song. He said the show was pitched to him in the morning, he quickly wrote the song, then played it for producer, James Brooks, and then played it ten more times during the day to other producers, saying it was finished before the end of that day. It didn't go completely without a hitch, though.

"One of the producers wanted me to change a lyric," Curtis said. "He thought that the line, 'And it's you girl' was 'And it's Jew girl.'"

Here, then, is the original theme song (it was changed slightly, in subsequent seasons), along with, in my opinion, the best of the covers by Minneapolis' own Hüsker Dü (because I can rarely pass up a chance to post something by the Hüskers).