I used to fall asleep watching the TV series, M*A*S*H. So the theme song pops into my head now and then.
Tonight I looked it up on Wikipedia:
Suicide is Painless.
Johnny Mandel composed the music and Mike Altman wrote the lyrics. The funny part was this:
"Mike Altman is the son of the original film's director, Robert Altman, and was 14 years old when he composed the song's lyrics. During an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in the 1980s, Robert Altman said that his son earned more than a million US dollars for co-writing the song while he only made US $70,000 for directing the movie."
Robert Altman did OK too.
