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

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. 

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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.

 

 

 

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. 

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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.

 

 

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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?

 

 

 

 

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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.

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