Members EricMontreal22 Posted October 27, 2010 Members Share Posted October 27, 2010 I may be misremembering--but I remember the ad campaign for Passions being genuinely spooky seeming and compelling. I was pretty disappointed with what we actually got. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members passionsfan Posted October 27, 2010 Author Members Share Posted October 27, 2010 I don't remember an ad like that. You might be referring to this ad that they did for SciFi when they started showing repeats. They took clips from the character sketches and put them all together: That might be what you're thinking of. I do also remember Kennylicious and bellcurve in another thread talking about a trailer that was shown during the 1999 Soap Opera Digest Awards that introdued Passions for the 1st time. I'd love to see that preview but couldn't find it anywhere online. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EricMontreal22 Posted October 27, 2010 Members Share Posted October 27, 2010 Ha violin? I remember someone saying it sounded like a dieing elephant. Agreed with The City--as you know No one in my family watched soaps (well, my mom apparently watched Edge of Night while she was home from work pregnant with my brother, but that was before I was born) but AMC used to come on after Sesame Street on CBC here--I remember the book opening, and being intrigued but we were always told soaps were too grown up for us. Then in the late 80s, when I was 7 or 8 my brother was very sick and home from school for a long time and I remember he became obsessed with Patch and Kayla (?) on Days of Our Lives and I prob watched some of that. I also remember Y&R's credits cuz I loved the theme music so much, but never actually tried to watch the show. Then in 1991 when I was 11, my sister had a friend staying with us who used to watch AMC with her mother, and I was home on holidays for some reason and started watching the Janet in the well storyline. I remember even at that age (I musta been an obnoxious kid) I was snoibby about soaps, but I became instantly hooked and started taping it every day even though my sis never bothered watching once her friend left. That led to watchiung Loving as well within the next year due primarily tot he Carter Jones AMC crossover, and sometime there after I started to notice the gay storyline on OLTL which got me into that too. That pretty much led to me going to the library and reading everything I could find about soaps--and off and on I tried watching the other soaps but nothing really stuck (maybe Y&R which also was on after school here so was easier to catch). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EricMontreal22 Posted October 27, 2010 Members Share Posted October 27, 2010 It definitely was more of that moody style, but that wasn't it (I don't get that station anyway and I distinctly remember it before the original Summer premier, because I have it associated in my mind when I was in a production of Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum LOL and that would be then ). I did usually watch the SOD awards though so maybe that was it--or maybe I'm thinking of some print ads? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EricMontreal22 Posted October 27, 2010 Members Share Posted October 27, 2010 Those are well done. Interesting the Miguel one uses the song Life in Mono by Mono, which was written for, and used in all the advertising for Alfonso Cuaron's remake of Great Expectations which was only a bit earlier, I think... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jonathan Posted October 27, 2010 Members Share Posted October 27, 2010 You missed an opportunity to talk about "All Her Children." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members All My Shadows Posted October 27, 2010 Members Share Posted October 27, 2010 ATWT: Grandma's favorite show! Lots of old ladies! GL: Grandma's other favorite show! Drama! Y&R: Victuh! Nikkih! Miz Chanceluh! B&B: Flashy pictures of models and cameras and silky fabric! And later... AMC: Snobs! Elegance! Susan Lucci! GH: Dark! Mob! Violence! Obnoxious! OLTL: I've never heard of this show! DAYS: Hourglass! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members YRBB Posted October 27, 2010 Members Share Posted October 27, 2010 Wow.... those PASSIONS promos are beyond brilliant. If the show was anything like them... damn. The earliest B&B memory I have is James locked up in the secret chamber/torture room and Sheila messing with him. So, lots of craziness lol My grandma used to watch it (whispering the subtitles as she read them slowly lol and she used to "oooh" and gasp at every twist) And Y&R it's Jill in her office being upset and nervous about something. As soon as that first episode was over, I proclaimed "That was brilliant!!!!" Btw, please help... that Miguel promo... what's the song that starts near the very end called and who sings? I just can't remember Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SFK Posted October 27, 2010 Members Share Posted October 27, 2010 Alto SAX! My bad, brain fart. It has that Flight of the Bumblebee quality. You mentioned Y&R, as a kid I thought Dvore's YR logo was merely a modern art design. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JackPeyton Posted October 27, 2010 Members Share Posted October 27, 2010 :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members quartermainefan Posted October 27, 2010 Members Share Posted October 27, 2010 This is what got me hooked on GH..Luke and David Gray. When you are a 14 yr old comic book nerd, seeing this on TV was a revelation I had started watching earlier in this story but not every day, and then when the action picked up I was all over GH like white on rice (whatever the hell that means) I think though it was actually Heather Webber that first caught my eye, because she was the closest thing to JR Ewing on the show and I was a big Dallas fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EricMontreal22 Posted October 27, 2010 Members Share Posted October 27, 2010 HAHAH I thought it was implicit in my comment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EricMontreal22 Posted October 27, 2010 Members Share Posted October 27, 2010 As I said above, it's Life in Mono, by Mono which was initially written for Great expectations' soundtrack and then on their own album (though it was their only sorta hit). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EricMontreal22 Posted October 27, 2010 Members Share Posted October 27, 2010 Wow, I knew that the ABC soaps in the 80s often used movie soundtrack music (the oddest choice being Erica's prison break out for Jeremy on AMC using the famous Halloween movie theme), but much of that clip above is scored to Giorgio Moroder's moody synth score to the Cat People remake. Just seems amazing they got the rights to use it so soon (the movie came out in late Spring 1982). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EricMontreal22 Posted October 27, 2010 Members Share Posted October 27, 2010 HA love how cheap the B&B one is--those actors musta gotten whiplash! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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