Members Soapsuds Posted August 20, 2012 Members Share Posted August 20, 2012 Please register in order to view this content Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MissLlanviewPA Posted August 20, 2012 Members Share Posted August 20, 2012 I do like the closing theme better, but I also like the opening for some reason. Just me, though . This is another version from a David Foster album: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-OXSEkzkpw We agree on the toilet flush theme, though, lol. There's something oddly grand sounding about it--even with the toilet flush. lol And I also like this theme, even if the actors themselves have somewhat depressed looking faces in the opening itself, lol: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgKbo1RxVD0&feature=related Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members CSF Posted August 20, 2012 Members Share Posted August 20, 2012 I like the opening by Sandy Dvore too. He really likes his paint as he designed the brush strokes for Y&R. Its funny you say that about the 11th season opening. That was designed by Castle/Bryant/Johnsen who designed ATWT's main titles in 1993. They must have liked the "outdoors" take on things. Knots Landing has quite a few main title designers who also did the main titles for daytime soaps such as Wayne Fitzgerald. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sapounopera Posted August 20, 2012 Members Share Posted August 20, 2012 I loved: The Y&R opening with the drawings - so classy Love Of Life - late 70's with the black background and the cast images - If I had my own daytime soap, that would be the opening Guiding Light - Late 70's - it gives me the chills 70's Another World & ATWT - the themes were so dramatic - Why did they change them? The first AMC opening OLTL - the champagne opening Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Y&RWorldTurner Posted August 20, 2012 Members Share Posted August 20, 2012 An Italian GL fan did a montage where he re-created all (well, most) of the show's theme tunes. I think he did an amazing job. <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/EKtInu-bA6A" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeliaIrisFan Posted August 21, 2012 Members Share Posted August 21, 2012 Yeah, the final version of Love of Life's theme definitely gets my vote, and I wasn't even alive to see it and I know the show was pretty much a mess by that point. Ironically, I think it would have been the perfect opening for the Labine-Mayer era earlier in that decade. It doesn't seem quite appropriate for a show that revolved around a character named "Bambi." These two get my vote for the best openings for shows that I actually watched, for much the same reason that was mentioned in reference to the GL one - they were among the first soap themes I remember and I still associate them with shows that I loved at the time, but they hold up to this day, IMO. Actually, my favorite version of this GH opening was the one circa 1995, with the slightly different intro music - I think that remains my favorite "fade" from a soap opening - and which incorporated the "action" scenes from the Puerto Rico and Luke-and-Laura return remotes. It really managed to capture several very different aspects of GH at different times over the years, and blend them seamlessly while reflecting a contemporary show for the '90s: <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zrGMRtQcT-k" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> And as for the opening of the other show that I most loved around that time... At the time, as an adolescent, I thought this opening was incredible, and it still gets to me on a sentimental level, but in hindsight it is pretty embarrassing. Although to be fair that final 1996 one was especially bad, with none of the charm that the earlier versions did have. The iconic shots were gone - Iris in her Snowflake Ball dress, Rachel with Mac and then later Ada and Amanda - or no longer fit JFP's "vision" of the show - Felicia with her boa, Donna voguing in her jewels, social-climbing Paulina stealing a bite of that icing with her finger, Jake with his video camera - making for a very sad production all around. Part of the problem was that the opening didn't seem to be updatable...or sometime in the early 90s the budget for doing so appropriately was slashed, because nearly all of the ones that I mentioned were actually added a year or two after the opening debuted. By the mid-'90s, though, when we were still watching Iris's triumphant entrance at an over-the-top '80s costume party about six months or so into her jail term, it was almost a slap in the face to viewers who had an attachment to the show's "history" from even just a few years earlier. I guess it's good that JFP got her new opening before Frankie's murder...I could just see going from Frankie pleading for her life to the opening, featuring her and Cass gambling at that casino. I do still have a special place in my heart for the music, especially the original, extended version, but even that they messed up by having completely different music for the closing theme. Which also has nostalgic value for me and I didn't think was even so bad, but has that ever happened before or since - a soap having a completely different opening and closing theme? I guess it was a good representation of how utterly inconsistent AW was toward the end. That said, I had no love lost for the JFP opening, and oddly enough the people who worked on it seemed to have learned nothing from history as far as the difficulty in updating that "You Take Me Away to..." opening (or, more likely, JFP ignored the more veteran production staff members and/or actively went against their advice in order to insure that she would leave her "stamp" on the show long after she was gone). JFP's version was difficult/expensive to update as well, and it too was dated within a year or two of its debut. The full version of that music that they played over the closing credits was pretty good, but the visuals and the overly dramatic styling of the opening sequence killed it for me. I actually thought the mid-show bumpers they created for AW's final week (or two?) featuring the "You Take Me Away" theme song, the classic '70s interlocking circles, and actual clips of the characters could have been the basis for a successful, appropriate AW opening for the '90s, but of course it was too late: <iframe width="420" height="315" src=" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Ahhh, Ryan's Hope. Never a bad opening, even when the show was a disaster at times later in its run. Even that opening featuring generic extras from the "Kirkland's Hope" era would have been perfect for another show. I love them all. What a fun topic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cheap21 Posted August 21, 2012 Members Share Posted August 21, 2012 Ill say it right now, GH's FoTH opening has got to be the most overated soap opening out there. The music was great but people like its the be all, end all. It didnt have great visuals and the red tint felt pretty dated by the time it was retired in 2004. I think it lasted a lot longer than it should have. The theme should have remained but the visuals should have been given an upgrade years earlier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MissLlanviewPA Posted August 21, 2012 Members Share Posted August 21, 2012 I like that opening and the Autumn Breeze opening before it, but it's always astonishing to me to see clips from 1992-early 1993, knowing that they were STILL using the AB theme. You see how the show was being shot by then and it just seems ill-fitting (although no doubt iconic). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members frequentsoapfan Posted August 21, 2012 Members Share Posted August 21, 2012 . The music was great the visuals not so much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SFK Posted August 21, 2012 Members Share Posted August 21, 2012 Exactly. And when they played the slow closing version for the opening in episodes where there was a funeral, it was very moving. I liked the early shots with David Lewis and Anna Stuart, Monica, Alan, and the boys sharing a frame, Tracy and Ned sharing frame... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members frequentsoapfan Posted August 21, 2012 Members Share Posted August 21, 2012 It nevered move me not like Nadia's theme. And why does GH always have a way of making their cast look unflattering in their openings? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members frequentsoapfan Posted August 21, 2012 Members Share Posted August 21, 2012 Can't believe I forgot this one though http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbSnkPlN9hk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MissLlanviewPA Posted August 21, 2012 Members Share Posted August 21, 2012 The long version of Autumn Breeze is a favorite of mine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFaw0LsIgSA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cat Posted August 21, 2012 Members Share Posted August 21, 2012 OMG! The long GH closing from the late 70s and 80s! I have been looking for it everywhere. And yes, I love it. I also love Santa Barbara's opening, the original B&B opening, the original AMC opening (with the hand turning the pages of the book) and, of course, Nadia's Theme. Always and forever. Nightime? Dynasty and The Colbys. Without question. Though the Dallas theme was even more iconic than those two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MissLlanviewPA Posted August 21, 2012 Members Share Posted August 21, 2012 I ADORE the Dynasty theme. Gotta love that trumpet! The Knots Landing theme is my favorite of the 80s primetime soaps, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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