2 minutes ago, slick jones said:

Tanya Peterson    dated Rick; friend of the "Four Musketeers" 

               Hilary Edson    1983-84

                    Barbara Ring    1984-88

from the GL Cast list thread page 120

Edson went on to appear in other soaps

HILARY EDSON

 

GUIDING LIGHT          Tanya Peterson           1983-84

GENERAL HOSPITAL      Tanya Roskov Jones     1984-87

ANOTHER WORLD         Stacey Winthrop Singleton    1989-91

GUIDING LIGHT          Dr. Eve Guthrie   (Wyland)     1992-95 

Appeared in two episodes of TITANS as Barbara in 2018

movies

LETTERS TO JULIET     Receptionist  2010

TRUST     Jill the Bartender     2021

 

 

Thank you very much for the info, I remember Hilary but I don't think it was her so it must be this Barbara Ring

Also i just checked my memory told me Fiona Hutchinson Played a Tanya on GL, Wikipedia confirmed, any chance it's the same character?

1 hour ago, Mitch64 said:

She was Beth's friend but have no idea who the actress is. Damn, everyone is so young and looking good here..Ross is a piece of a** here and Billy was actually looking handsome in his hat. I loved the sick obsession Billy had with Reva and Zimmer is so good here, not the scenery chewer of later days...I love Van's cool shade she give Jeva but Maeve is not very good in the "Oh Billy" scene! Yea, not really liking Phillip turning into a pr*ck here, the triangle could have gone on without him being the bad guy. 

Online sources have actress Barbara Ring playing Tanya Peterson, friend of Beth, date of Rick.  And allegedly she’s the second Tanya, the first being Hilary Edson, later Eve Guthrie, and also Tania on GH. 

On 6/26/2022 at 7:34 AM, Franko said:

Okay, more pieces of the puzzle are coming into play:

Judy Collins (Week of March 29, according to UPI;

The B-52's (April 1-2)

Maurice Gibb (Friday, May 7;

By April 24, Ashford & Simpson and Anne Murray had also taped their appearances,

So we can place the Wired for Sound performances as starting in spring 1982. Now I'm wondering when they petered out.

 

On 6/26/2022 at 10:46 AM, DRW50 said:

Bertie Higgins performed on June 8th (that video is a page or two back). Someone on the Jennifer Holliday video says she sang on May 17th.

We can add Neil Sedaka as well. July 7th 1982

Wired for sound offered an eclectic music mix. Wonder how the GL producers decided who would appear?

 

Ashford and Simpson April 5th

 

 

Judy Collins March 22

 

 

Jennifer Holliday May 17

Maurice Gibb April 6

Edited July 25, 20223 yr by Paul Raven

This photo is dated Feb 19 so maybe other dates are incorrect also.

I'm also thinking that Neil Sedaka did not perform at Wired for Sound. The presence of Bea Reardon and the maid suggests he was a guest at some other sort of swanky event around that time.

 

 

Edited July 25, 20223 yr by Paul Raven

Thanks for finding all the photos @Paul Raven 

Marland really did spend months and months building up Floyd's music career. Or Allen Potter did. I wonder if that was ever meant to be long-term or if they just used that as a reason to brings musical guests in and there was never any interest in the  character himself.

5 hours ago, DRW50 said:

Thanks for finding all the photos @Paul Raven 

Marland really did spend months and months building up Floyd's music career. Or Allen Potter did. I wonder if that was ever meant to be long-term or if they just used that as a reason to brings musical guests in and there was never any interest in the  character himself.

I liked Floyd...he was a normal background character that soaps need...stupid that they made him madly in love with Beth and a killer. Later on the show should have used Rick and Frank that way,,,just nice normal people who werent involved with a lot of drama.

 

15 hours ago, Paul Raven said:

This photo is dated Feb 19 so maybe other dates are incorrect also.

I'm also thinking that Neil Sedaka did not perform at Wired for Sound. The presence of Bea Reardon and the maid suggests he was a guest at some other sort of swanky event around that time.

 

 

Maybe the dates were when the photo was taken/performance was taped. I'm also seriously wondering what was the common denominator with some of these guests. Maybe it was as simple as "in New York right now."

 

18 hours ago, Joseph said:

 

Reva is about to drive off that bridge and the show is about to drive into its golden age. No one noticed that Reva was showing an odd propensity for wearing post maternity clothes in RED????  Holly/MG is looking smoking hot here and I know everyone else loved her but SS' Blake is so...BIG and campy and not very sexy for the vamp she was supposed to be. Its weird to see BC's Beth not humping the Spaulding couch and acting nice and normal and its depressing what was eventually going to happen to Reva and Beth when they returned.

This is around the time P&G was gearing up to bring in Jim Reilly (by Xmas) and Pam quit to take maternity leave; she was out of steam.

6 hours ago, RavenWhitney said:

This is around the time P&G was gearing up to bring in Jim Reilly (by Xmas) and Pam quit to take maternity leave; she was out of steam.

She left for maternity leave in 1986. We never got the whole story behind her last departure. SOD said she clashed with tptb over creative control and P&G said her departure was a mutual decision. SOW said she was fired over ratings. To me she didn't lose steam, the show clicked on all cylinders so her departure worried me. Thankfully Curlee's team took the show to another level 

On 7/21/2022 at 9:24 PM, victoria foxton said:

The same member in my soap Facebook group.  Who has an episode of ATWT. Also has an episode of GL from the summer of 1973.

Ah. The classic look! Loving it.

11 hours ago, bboy875 said:

She left for maternity leave in 1986. We never got the whole story behind her last departure. SOD said she clashed with tptb over creative control and P&G said her departure was a mutual decision. SOW said she was fired over ratings. To me she didn't lose steam, the show clicked on all cylinders so her departure worried me. Thankfully Curlee's team took the show to another level 

I think there were several factors..Pam did indeed need to be pulled in..and she balked at the net control which we all know does not come with the best choices. I think she was still hurting from having her Johnny Bauer is a miracle healer storyline shot down (good on the net) and then the Matt Weiss thing (bad on the net) and finally, Reva returning as a ghost to cheer up Marah that Christmas (good on the net also, as they wanted to leave the door open to Reva being alive, but as we saw, that didn't stop her..) She was most likely tired of fighting the net, her ratings weren't taking advantage of the ATWT lead in, so that along with her sauciness I am sure made the net say, "See ya!" 

Pam's best stories were her heart, friends and community ones (though oddly the dark as hell Sonni/Solita was damn well her best work, but that was essentially about two sisters bond, and family abuse, not Annie Dutton is EVIL camp..) and as you see here with the clunky Roger as special agent saving AM, so that big "healer" storyline always confused me. 

4 hours ago, Mitch64 said:

I think there were several factors..Pam did indeed need to be pulled in..and she balked at the net control which we all know does not come with the best choices. I think she was still hurting from having her Johnny Bauer is a miracle healer storyline shot down (good on the net) and then the Matt Weiss thing (bad on the net) and finally, Reva returning as a ghost to cheer up Marah that Christmas (good on the net also, as they wanted to leave the door open to Reva being alive, but as we saw, that didn't stop her..) She was most likely tired of fighting the net, her ratings weren't taking advantage of the ATWT lead in, so that along with her sauciness I am sure made the net say, "See ya!" 

Pam's best stories were her heart, friends and community ones (though oddly the dark as hell Sonni/Solita was damn well her best work, but that was essentially about two sisters bond, and family abuse, not Annie Dutton is EVIL camp..) and as you see here with the clunky Roger as special agent saving AM, so that big "healer" storyline always confused me. 

Pam didn't want Jim Reilly as a co-heat and P&G insisted on it.  Remember: Pam always had a co-head (Jeff Ryder then Nancy Curlee/Trent Jones).  Ironically, Jim's best years were the two he was GL co-head. His Days stints ruined Days and helped ruin soaps. Pam was also never successful on another show. Her final six month story on SFT was bad, not horrid, but bad.  OLTL was a mess and SB was unwatchable before she took over and nothing changed.  She needed to go.

A gossip magazine writeup for Melinda Fee from October 1973 mentions that Tracy/Charlotte's death was leaked beforehand to the press - she was meant to die in October from a car crash. They didn't know if this was going to change GL's plans, but suggested it wasn't likely.