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2 minutes ago, YRfan23 said:

I added a download link to the side on the 1990 playlist!   

You're the best!!

On 6/18/2019 at 9:55 PM, YRfan23 said:

Yeah sure!  

1970's and 1980:

 

1982:

1985:

1987:

1988:

1989:

1990:

1992:

1993:

1994:

1995:

MISC Stuff/Compilations:

 

Damn, I wanted to see the March 1, 1990 episode to see what was cut out but apparently I can't because of copyright blocking (damn they're fast haha). Is there another way it can be re-uploaded somewhere else?

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Ronn Moss as Ridge LOL.

5 hours ago, BoldRestless said:

Thanks @AdamNewmanFan According to IMDB:

 

#5939

August 21, 1995.  Paul & Christine's honeymoon.

 

#4305

March 1, 1990

Nina introduces David to Danny. Katherine escapes with Esther's help. Cassandra agrees to marry Adrian. Paul, Nathan, Victor and Lynne try to find a way to protect Cassandra. Cricket is very happy to see Danny again. Brad talks to Ashley about Leanna's show but she's not interested. Jack is at John's bedside in the hospital.

 

#7917 

July 5, 2004

 

#7918

July 6, 2004

 

The recaps are here https://www.soapcentral.com/yr/recaps/2004/040705.php 

It's Kay's intervention party, OMG yes!!!

The Phyllis/Daniel/Danny and Dru/Devon stuff should be really good too.

 

GOD THANK YOU TO THE Y&R PRODUCERS, THIS IS AWESOME AND I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE WHAT THE REST OF NEXT WEEK BRINGS

 

Agreed, this looks like a great week!

Although I'm part of that "Y&R The Classic Years" Facebook group and people are still bitching and moaning that the episodes aren't old enough, like really????  Oh well, beggars can't be choosers.

False alarm! Turns out that residuals cheque was for Married With Children haha. I'm still holding out hope that they show some Tricia-centric episodes haha.

2 hours ago, Michele Soap Writer said:

The opening sequence back then.......yuck! lol

I dont recall how Ryan and Nina were written off the show though maybe they left after I stopped watching? Or maybe not......I stopped watching around 05 or 06

Ryan was shot and killed by Tricia in November 2001 and that's how they were both written off. Nina left in earlier in 2001 to pursue her writing career until returning back to Y&R in 2009 in time for the mess of a Phillip III is back from the dead storyline.

On 4/12/2020 at 7:55 PM, YRfan23 said:

This is Cool!
 

 

This was me inquiring about it! I'm YRVault on twitter haha. I was so surprised when he replied with a short composition, I was just expecting the name of the cue at most so that was pretty cool of him.

On 4/13/2020 at 12:02 AM, Darn said:

Someone please tell me why that man even has a job? The music on Y&R now is downright awful. And it's always the same [!@#$%^&*] lackluster chords taking us to commercial and the end credits. And how can HE listen to THAT and think his score is okay?

On 4/13/2020 at 1:33 AM, Paul Raven said:

Exactly.

That music was such apart of Y&R.

Today's stuff is so generic. 

Dobson is partially the reason we're hearing some of the old cues again. He's the Musical Supervisor, with RC Cates co-supervising (also composing). He was fired by JFP in 2012 but came back to Y&R in 2017 under Sally Sussman Morina and Kay Alden's leadership who had planned to bring the music back - however when they were pushed out in favour of Mal Young, and he had a different vision. It wasn't until Tony Morina was hired as EP that he started to slowly and sparingly bring the old cues back. I don't think it's fair to pin the blame on Dobson - his partner/EP likely have a hand in how much of the cues they use. 

7 hours ago, Michele Soap Writer said:

the old Jill was a terrible actress. Yikes!

A legion of longtime Brenda Dickson fans will fight you on that haha.

34 minutes ago, Aback said:

 

Does anyone know what episode that is?

 

Did a quick Google search and 4707 is the 1991 Masquerade Ball.

I have several things I want to get off my chest about this farce of a rewrite. It's obvious FV and team failed to fact-check Carly's Florida background that viewers actually saw play out on screen.

1) As previously mentioned, Carly was 22 when she arrived in Port Charles (her age was given during Bobbie's birthday). EM is quite a bit younger than Carly was when she arrived in PC.

2) Carly and Virginia didn't live in a nice condo. Virginia Benson's home was shown to be quite homely, a little bit below middle class, and mildly suburban.

3) Carly grew up in and came from Pensacola, not Jacksonville.

4) Frank Benson had let slip that Bobbie was a hooker. Carly didn't even figure this out until January 1997. There were episodes where she had emotional meltdowns over finding out the circumstances of her being conceived, and with Tony not knowing why she was upset the way she was.

5) It was not Frank Benson who told Carly about her birth parents, it was the Private Investigator who Bobbie had hired, Felix Piser. He was in the first scene with SJB's Carly for crying out loud. Carly had bribed him into keeping her identity quiet while she went out and sought Bobbie. After a few months, Luke, Sonny, and Bobbie had tracked him down and strongarmed him in GH into revealing who Carly's adoptive parent was without giving Carly away. Pizer then spotted Carly at GH and, blackmailed her into giving up her Nurse's Program tuition gifted by Tony for his silence. It was at this point Luke went to Florida to investgate and Tony's affair with Carly began.

Holy crap, this is a horrible retcon if I ever saw one.

On 2/25/2020 at 2:04 AM, Chris B said:

 

The clip with the 25th Anniversary of Newman Enterprises where Jess Walton mostly spoke. Brenda was sitting next to John and she hugged and kissed Victor towards the end if I recall correctly. Neil and Brad I also believe were in the scene. It was in the first part of the episode.

Just rewatched that scene and you could only see the back of Brenda's head there, and was cropped out when John spoke. Jill kissed victor at the end. 

Edit: Looks like Brenda was cropped out in the TV broadcast. The web version has the uncropped scenes where you can see Brenda, oops!

On 1/19/2020 at 4:01 AM, YRFan2007 said:

Just wanted to let everyone know I got some episodes of Y&R from 2005 and I was wondering if anyone wants Ted to see them

Lit! Do you have the episodes where Nikki gets kidnapped by Bobby Marsino's enemies?

On 8/22/2019 at 1:17 PM, BoldRestless said:

Oh no, I had saved some of his videos, but I was a week or so behind.  Does anyone have all of them?

Ugh, somebody must have flagged him. I keep forgetting there are people with no lives who live to flag videos for copyright on YouTube.

I have a lot of his clips up until when he started uploading direct digital versions of the clips he used to record the screen off of. Hopefully he resurfaces and is a lot more subtle.

18 hours ago, DramatistDreamer said:

Came across this today and it made me laugh.  This sequence looked fun.

 

Yay you found my twitter!

Enjoy this goodie!

I like MS and I think she can be a great actress, but I really couldn't stomach seeing her in that scene with Christine. Her acting choices and mannerisms have literally thrown all the character development that Gina Tognoni made out of the window and practically regressed to 2012.

Michelle just doesn't fit in this role anymore. Gina would probably have delivered the wit and sarcasm without swinging arms, being loud, exaggerating whispers, and over-enunciating "Cricket" with finesse and conviction.

13 hours ago, ironlion said:

Watching the 2007 episodes recenly posted. I finally got to see how the whole Pheila fiasco played out....God have mercy,  who allowed this to air? Michelle Stafford---love her as Phyliss, pre overacting---was cringeworthy as "Sheila". At the very least Brad Bell basically erased that trash when Kimberlin returned to B&B in 2017 (that storyline within itself was another problem, but at least we got real Sheila back). 

 Overall, Sheila had decent storyline up to 2002, and her 2005 plot was decent. 

I personally feel like while Sheila's 2005 storyline was executed well, it was very cartoonish in the writing itself. It just didn't make sense that all of a sudden she would redevelop an obsession over Scotty while most of her life before then was around raising Mary/Erica whilst supposedly raising Massimo's baby. And Sheila during her 90s run on Bold sort of humanized her in a way while raising hell. 2002 was mildly cartoonish, but the context of where the story came from at least made sense.

Quickies but goodies.

I find myself really missing Gina Tognoni in scenes where Summer is concerned. MS and HK have more of a sisterly chemistry than it is maternal. GT really nailed the maternal role in Phyllis where Summer is concerned.

I too think Sandra Nelson portrayed a deliciously evil Phyllis. With all this SN talk, here's one of the gems I grabbed from YouTube back in the day. Gotta love her screaming through the elevator at the end LOL.

I personally wouldn't have minded Michelle Stafford back in the role of Phyllis, my biggest problem was how it played out. Gina didn't deserve to be pushed out by an actress that left their originating role twice and the whole debacle just left a sour taste in my mouth (although I blame Anthony Morina for that, not MS).

I, too was exhausted by MS's portrayal as Phyllis by the end of her run because by that point, all I feel I got out of Phyllis was coming off as obnoxious and smug - not qualities I necessarily like to see in a character all the time. I will say that when challenged and when the writing warrants it, Michelle Stafford can be extremely versatile as an actress. I was watching a few clips of the short-lived Aaron Spelling primetime soap Pacific Palisades (the role that caused MS to leave Y&R the first time). There she plays a good-head-on-shoulders type character and is incredibly refreshing to see compared to her Daytime roles.

Also quickly threw together a comparison clip of Sharon and Phyllis' stairwell confrontation comparing Michelle Stafford and Gina Tognoni. I will have to cut Gina some slack since she didn't have the experience of taping scenes leading to the buildup, but she did pretty well for starting raw.

Best experienced with a set of headphones or earbuds.

Glad I could help, @BoldRestless!

On a side note, I'm not sure if this counts as "old" per se, but since many of us are mourning the firing of Gina Tognoni from the role of Phyllis, I thought it would be in good taste to commemorate her work by posting one of my favourite scenes from her run as Phyllis.

I f-loved GT's chemistry with Sharon Case. Kind of makes me wonder how Michelle Stafford would play off these scenes.

20 minutes ago, detroitpiston said:

The whole canvas has been reverted back to 2013 so I'd say yes. I'm interested in seeing if the ratings jump back up at all.

Right? As if 2013 was a good year, but it wasn't! I vastly enjoyed 2017 and the first half of 2018. If they want bring back the show to the previous era, they should aim for the 1999-2001 era.

10 minutes ago, Darn said:

I don't know who this Trina girl is but I like her. Did the child paying Josslyn get her lips done? What a world.

 

Those scenes still suck BUT the music is a marked improvement. I especially like the cues you used just as Josslyn and that kid kissed and when we came back from to them kissing and her pulling away. And OF COURSE the classic cue you used as they were deciding whether or not to have sex.

Haha thanks! The one thing I noticed while editing these scenes is how short they were (although it does work in my favour since I don't have full length cues), and also how fast they were running the lines - perhaps it was the director's choice. The entire time I was editing this I was envisioning all the music used during the teen Glow by Jabot era, so I had to use Billy and Mac's piano cue. 

18 hours ago, YRfan23 said:

This is a weird request, but Do you think you can do another one of these with the current teen scene? I realized that they are all around Heather Tom's age when she first started Y&R, so I guess I just want to hear/see what classic Y&R music would bring to the current GH teens if that makes sense? 

Done! Thankfully it was my day off today. I also added a few more things to make it feel more like a Y&R compilation clip. Enjoy!

17 minutes ago, YRfan23 said:

That would be awesome to see! Let me know if you need any specific cues, as I got a handful of old episodes I can help out with! 

I'll be on the GH teen scene soon enough! And I'm so glad you're willing to help! My personal Y&R music sweet spot is Ed Scott's 1999-2001 era. In terms of editing and usage, it offered the right balance between the older and newer cues. It was also very easy to get a good chunk of a cue when the last scene would fade to black and show "senior executive producer, WILLIAM J. BELL", etc. There were a hand full of 1994 episodes posted on here too that had amazing stereo sound so I'm definitely referencing those as well.

18 minutes ago, beebs said:

Can I just say, the music added so much to the scenes. I felt myself getting sucked into the story in a way I know I'd never do if I were watching the show unedited. You've got a real talent!

Haha I'm glad you're a fan of my work, and I'm glad the psychology of Y&R's music is working on you! Just goes to show how influential Y&R's rich music history really is. If I had the necessary experience and education, I would work by Mike Dobson as Y&R's assistant music director (or something like that) in a heartbeat.

35 minutes ago, YRfan23 said:

Thanks! it did work this time!   

 

These are so well done.....the music does enhance the scenes, as if you were watching classic Y&R!

This is a weird request, but Do you think you can do another one of these with the current teen scene? I realized that they are all around Heather Tom's age when she first started Y&R, so I guess I just want to hear/see what classic Y&R music would bring to the current GH teens if that makes sense? 

I totally get what you mean! When I get a chance, I just might! Though if I do enough of these, you may start to notice that I'll start recycling cues from my library since I only have so many haha, but it seems do-able. Although some cuts might end up being awkward and ironically, in terms of camera work and timing, GH is currently closer to Y&R's pre-2012 camera style than GH currently is. But I'll see what I can come up with haha.

Edit: I totally misread your comment, I thought you wanted me to do Y&R's teen scene but I guess I looked over "GH". Yes, that's do-able too!

29 minutes ago, BoldRestless said:

It's so slick, like it's a real video. Very nicely done... do you use Audacity to edit the audio?

I'm glad you like it!

I'm about to get really technical here, so feel free to read the whole thing below when you have time.

I took the full episode of GH and spliced it to include just those scenes using Adobe Premiere Pro as well as inserting the background music. The first thing I do is edit GH's audio in Adobe Audition by minimizing the existing background music and maximizing the vocals through something called Center Channel Extraction (the center channel carries most vocals and the left and right channels carries most background music and noises). It isn't always a perfect solution, as prominent instruments like strings and percussion can't always be minimized (or in the case of extracting background music, maximized), but thankfully most of GH's background music nowadays are artificial non-melodic synths that always seem to have this ominous industrial feeling which I always thought was too cheesy.

Grabbing background music is another task in itself. The first method is me collecting several episodes and splicing parts of music together to re-create as much of the cues as I can. This also isn't easy since decent quality video and audio from older videos are incredibly difficult to come across (also very difficult to find in Stereo sound). I'm sometimes forced to use fuzzy-sounding VHS quality audio as evidenced in some of my cues in the video above. The second method I use is filtering using the Center Channel Extraction method, but this time bringing down the center channel. The fact that Mike Dobson was given a go to start using older background music in the newer episodes has been a godsend, as grabbing cues from them have been much easier. It still isn't perfect, but it at least gives me something to work with.

TL;DR, the audio editing happens on Adobe Audition while the video editing happens on Adobe Premiere Pro. I'm really glad you guys find enjoyment in these, as Y&R's background music has been a huge part of my life growing up (strange thing to say, I know). I'm loving the encouragement and I'll keep doing these whenever I can! As well as potentially sharing some of the episodes and clips I've been talking about down the road.