The Pop Singer Who Secretly Helped Create ‘The Fall Guy’

One of my favorite shows from the early eighties is The Fall Guy, which starred Lee Majors as a Hollywood stuntman who also moonlights as a bounty hunter to make ends meet. I loved this show because it had the “Six Million Dollar Man” in it, and I’ll be darned if Mr. Majors didn’t really seem to have a great sense of humor about his role as Colt Seavers.

But this story isn’t about Lee Majors. Instead, I want to talk about a feller named Dave Somerville, whom you’ve likely never heard of — and how this ’50s and ’60s pop singer, and a tune that he wrote, had a huge hand in the creation of The Fall Guy.