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Apr29

A to Z 2022 – TV Theme Songs – (the) Young & the Restless

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A to Z 2022 – TV Theme Songs – (the) Young & the Restless

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My theme for this year will actually be a theme! It will be …

  • TV Theme Songs

I’ll be showing short videos of the opening theme songs of old TV shows, and saying a few words about them. They are all shows I’ve watched in the past and enjoyed. Maybe you’ve seen some of them too, and will enjoy this look back at some favorites.

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“The Young & the Restless” is a daytime soap opera that I watched all the time back in the 70s. It was interesting with characters playing families and their good and bad times, as all soaps do.

A funny remembrance of hearing this theme song has to do with my older daughter. Before she was born I guess she could hear this song played every day. Then when she was very tiny baby and even older, each time she’d hear this song played on TV as I watched the show, she would get very quiet and listen to the whole thing. No matter what else was going on, she listened and seemed to love it.

It is such a beautiful song.

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From a Wiki article:

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The Young and the Restless (often abbreviated as Y&R) is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictionalized version of Genoa City, Wisconsin.[2] First broadcast on March 26, 1973, The Young and the Restless was originally broadcast as half-hour episodes, five times a week.[3][4] The show expanded to one-hour episodes on February 4, 1980.[5] In 2006, the series began airing previous episodes weeknights on SOAPnet[6] until 2013, when it moved to TVGN (now Pop). As of July 1, 2013, Pop still airs previous episodes on weeknights.[7][8] The series is also syndicated internationally.[9]

 

Since its debut, The Young and the Restless has won 11 Daytime Emmy Award for Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series. It is also currently the highest-rated daytime drama on American television, a rank it has held for 32 years as of the end of the 2019–20 season. As of 2008, it had appeared at the top of the weekly Nielsen ratings in that category for more than 1,000 weeks since 1988.[14] As of December 12, 2013, according to Nielsen ratings, The Young and the Restless marked an unprecedented 1,300 weeks, or 25 years, as the highest-rated daytime drama.

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Interesting history of this music:

Believe it or not, The Young and the Restless theme song wasn’t written for Y&R! Barry De Vorzon and Perry Botkin Jr. composed the music (“Cotton’s Dream”) for a 1971 film called Bless the Beasts and Children.

Two years later, Botkin rearranged the instrumental as the opening titles for the new daytime drama. The theme song played over pencil sketches of the original cast.

It wasn’t until the 1976 Olympics that the ditty captured the zeitgeist. Wide World of Sports used “Cotton’s Dream” to underscore a montage of gymnast Nadia Comaneci’s floor routines. Viewers were obsessed, and A&M Records capitalized on public interest by releasing it as a single titled “Nadia’s Theme (The Young and the Restless).” The commercial hit peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100—and even won the 1977 Grammy for “Best Instrumental Arrangement.”

“Nadia’s Theme” has become synonymous with daytime TV’s No. 1 drama, but it reentered the pop culture conversation in 2002, when R&B queen Mary J Blige sampled it for her hit song “No More Drama.”

The song peaked at No. 15 on the Billboard Hot 100, won Blige her first MTV Video Music Award, and brought down the house at the 2002 Grammys.

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© 2022 BS

 

Dec31

Scenes of Favorite Days – # 3 –

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I don’t know why this is a favorite day, but the whole thing was unusual and I just enjoyed it, I guess.

Another super windy day with sand blowing. Middle of the afternoon – power is out – furnace is out – it’s winter time again.

I’d been sewing Barbie clothes for the girl’s dolls, and also I had been watching my favorite soap opera. It was my mom’s favorite, too, and when it ended I called her to talk about it, as it was a very suspenseful episode. Then the power went out.

I was sitting on top of the kitchen table, the house was getting cold, and I didn’t know how to re-light the furnace (it was a gas pilot light and the wind had blown it out), but it was okay – we didn’t blow up.

One other thing though, was I’d been reading some kind of spooky stories about ghosts and such. It said the spirits loved the windy dark days, too, as the static electricity in the air was conductive to their appearing. I still always think of this on these kinds of days.

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~note~ I have no pictures of any of this today – no sand, no Barbie doll, no furnace, no table, no soap opera 🙂 – little pictures (doll, TV, & ghost) are from Free Clip Art~

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Thanks for visiting! Peace ☮️

© 2019 BS

Feb25

Love Is In Da Blog – Opera – Day 25

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Love Is In Da Blog – Opera – Day 25

https://thebeewritesdownloads.wordpress.com/2019/02/25/love-is-in-da-blog-25-my-favourite-love-song-from-an-opera-prompt-post-for-february-26

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For today’s prompt suggestion, Bee has asked for opera songs. Thanks, Bee!

I don’t know much about operas or the songs they sing. I have heard a song or two from Charlotte Church, and Jackie Evancho which are really pretty, and amazing, but I’ve never seen an opera, and don’t go out of my way to listen to any. Sorry.

That’s why I’m going a bit off the rails today with this one. It is the theme song from a soap opera, so at least the word opera is there!

One of my favorite soap operas was Another World, created by Irma Phillips. It has since ended, but I watched it from the very first show to the end (1964 to 1999). Most soap operas are about the love stories between the many characters, along with all the drama and family dynamics.

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“Another World”, by Crystal Gayle and Gary Morris, was released from their album, “What If We Fall In Love”, in 1987. It was written by John Leffler and Ralph Shucket, and is on the Warner Bros. label.

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I’ve always seen myself as a reckless gambler
Risking all that I had
Whenever I could

But then one day it happened
You appeared like from a dream
And we moved in synch like dancing
With our hearts in harmony

You are my way
To another world
Your are the one who makes me fly so high
You are the rain when my spirits run dry
You give my life
A hope that’s real

‘Cause when I’m with you
You take me away
To another world

All my life I’ve been called a hopeless romantic
Waiting for my prince
To sweep me away
But when I found you I felt different
Than I ever felt before
Suddenly I was taking no chances
By walking through your door

To another world
Your are the one who makes me fly so high
You are the rain when my spirits run dry
You give my life
A hope that’s real
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© 2019 BS

 

Jan1

Just Jot It January -Daytime Drama

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Just Jot It January  – Daytime Drama 

#JusJoJan Daily Prompt – January 1st, 2018

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Here it is January 1st already. Do you know what that means? It is time again for Linda’s “Just Jot It January”! Thanks, Linda!

Just follow the link above to find out the details of this month long challenge. Basically, anything you post to your blog is just fine for it. There are some suggested prompts if you want to use them, or just post whatever you want. It’s fun! 🙂

Today’s prompt word is brought to you by Ritu. You can find her blog at:  https://butismileanyway.com/2018/01/01/jusjojan-january-1st-2018-drama/

Thanks!

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Soapy Storytelling

Do you enjoy watching soap operas? How many of you admit to watching, and even enjoying soaps. Did you watch them in the past…do you still catch an episode now and then? Tuning in to ‘the stories’ has been a favorite pastime for many years, first on the radio, then on television.

I watched quite a few of them over the years. Only recently have I stopped.That’s because one by one, my favorites were cancelled after such long-running series. I’d watched “All My Children” since it’s beginning, in 1970, hardly ever missing a show. Then, after 41 years on the air, it was gone.

Soap operas are a fantastic feat in storytelling. The writers may have changed over the years, but from it’s inception, “All My Children” remained true to it’s creator’s vision. Agnes Nixon, who conceived of this soap opera, among many others, began just like all writers do to this day. She began with an idea, a vision of a story in her head. Putting pen to paper, she created the world of Pine Valley, and populated it with interesting characters.

There were many family groups, each with their own trials and tribulations, story lines, and more drama than any family should ever have to deal with. Eventually, all the characters in this imagined world, would come to know each other, and interact in all types of situations. During it’s run, it was a forerunner in bringing to light, many of the world’s concerns, and among the first to bring awareness, on air, to such groundbreaking issues as…the Viet Nam war, abortion, homelessness, racism, mental illnesses, diabetes, homosexuality, domestic violence, aids awareness, drug and gambling addiction, sexual harassment, and many other topics in the news of the changing times.

To have kept the story going all those years, and to have kept the audience interested and coming back for more, is a bit of writing genius, in my opinion. Can you imagine doing that…keeping your novel going for 41 years, writing a chapter each and every day, keeping the characters and plots moving forward? On top of all that, Ms Nixon and her team, managed to do the editing, rewriting, scripts, scenes, hiring of actors, television crews, and all others involved, and keep writing the story to make it all come together to meet the daily deadline.

Such is the world of soap operas. I applaud Agnes Nixon, for her dedication to her craft, for being such a wonderful storyteller, and for keeping me, and many thousands of soap opera fanatics, happy to tune in for another episode of the continuing story.

My copy of the history of “All My Children

Here you can find more about the soap opera, “All My Children”.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_My_Children

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note: First published on this blog in May 2014. Very few saw it back then, so this is a look back, and it fits the day’s prompt of ‘drama’.

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© 2018 BS