41 minutes ago, VanessaReardon said:

Just to set the record straight, SONY sold off the music rights to all of their tv shows and movies back then. That had nothing to do with JFP. 

Why would they do that and why would anybody buy it?

 

Like who would be spending money on Y&R's background music?

Just now, Paul Raven said:

Why would they do that and why would anybody buy it?

 

Like who would be spending money on Y&R's background music?

 

Besides, they do use old music cues on the current show every now and then...

47 minutes ago, Paul Raven said:

Why would they do that and why would anybody buy it?

 

Like who would be spending money on Y&R's background music?

Great questions. For some reason Sony sold all of their Music rights from all of Sony Pictures Television and also their Movies. 

48 minutes ago, Aback said:

 

Besides, they do use old music cues on the current show every now and then...

They bought some rights back. I know. It makes NO sense to sell them and years later to buy some back. But my point is that it was a Sony thing to sell the music rights. 

18 minutes ago, VanessaReardon said:

They bought some rights back. I know. It makes NO sense to sell them and years later to buy some back. But my point is that it was a Sony thing to sell the music rights. 

 

I would have been happy to buy the Y&R soundtrack rights! (well, I wouldn't have had the money, but still...)

15 hours ago, YRfan23 said:

This is Cool!
 

 

Love this! Probably my favorite classic dramatic Y&R musical score will always be be this one tbh, I seem to recall in the 90’s it was always played on Friday’s LOL

 

 

I dont notice the music at all except for the iconic opening theme song

19 hours ago, YRfan23 said:

This is Cool!
 

 

 

That was really great to see/hear which made we want to revive this old thread again.  😀  

 

 

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. 

Allocco and Kurtz’ scores are definitely missed. And I mean a lot of gothic, moody and sinister stuff from the 80’s and early 90’s.

 

However good it would be to hear the litany of classic scores, the way the show is designed, shot, lit, written (number of scenes per episode, as well as the type of storytelling), and directed, I don’t think they would completely fit anymore. Sad though that is.

 

 

Does anyone know where I can find the background music from Sunset Beach?

I was browsing some old clips of Loving because I wanted to see LW's work as Ally, and through my ears I discovered that Y&R ended up inheriting a music cue from Loving's library! (Likely because Gary Kuo worked on both shows)

 

Loving:

 

Y&R:

 

 

Where can B&B cues from 2000's be found? I assume they were never released. There was a specific

cue when Sheila kidnapped Ridge in South America been trying forever.

 

 

 

 

How was this OLTL cue used on Y&R?

 

 

 

 

Edited February 18, 20214 yr by fivethej

1 hour ago, fivethej said:

Where can B&B cues from 2000's be found? I assume they were never released. There was a specific

cue when Sheila kidnapped Ridge in South America been trying forever.

 

 

 

 

How was this OLTL cue used on Y&R?

 

 

 

 

 

If you can find a clip from OLTL that has this cue that would be great. As far as I know, this was an original for Y&R composed by Allocco, Kurtz, and Guitto and those three were exclusively composers for Y&R up until 2012, which would prohibit the use of this cue on an ABC soap from a licensing standpoint, unlike in the example above as Gary Kuo composed for both Y&R and Loving so music rights are a bit more flexible especially considering Loving is off the air.

 

Perhaps it's possible the arrangements were very similar sounding.

Edited February 18, 20214 yr by ChickenNuggetz92

I would love for DAYS' catalog of music from the mid-90's to be released somewhere, if only on YouTube. 

On 2/18/2021 at 5:50 PM, ChickenNuggetz92 said:

I was browsing some old clips of Loving because I wanted to see LW's work as Ally, and through my ears I discovered that Y&R ended up inheriting a music cue from Loving's library! (Likely because Gary Kuo worked on both shows)

 

Loving:

 

Y&R:

 

 

 

What a cool tidbit!

 

And to think that they dropped the Classic Music because it felt too 'old'. They replaced it with an early 90s cue lol