HOLIDAY MIRACLE: Prospect Park Back On Track To Revive AMC and OLTL

[Eric83]

LOL

[allmc2008]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImoBftC3J1I

[Eric83]

Yeah I don't expect one considering what GH's opening has been reduced to.

[allmc2008]

Maybe this could be used again for OLTL!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYpT662hSbg

[EricMontreal22]

Ha it's probably true... Addie Walsh's good but short HW term introduced Weatherly and the other college crew (trying to bring it back to its roots), I believe the year before, but by '93 I believe Millee Taggert and Bob Guza (yes, of GH notoriety) were writing it and it was still pretty solid. Soon after Agnes Nixon returned in probably one last attempt to get it attention and then Esensten/Brown did he killer storyline to move it into The City... I think I had a point--which was from that point on it actually was quite a strong show--as were th early days from clips I've seen, but it's true the late 80s and maybe very early 90s seem like a show without any real sense of identity.

OK so that's about 8 hours... The opening was, what, 30 seconds? I was never good at math, but that's a hell of a lot of times...

[Cheap21]

40 seconds of absolutely f--king nothing. Biggest waste of time ever! Those last 5 seconds are what Id expect the OLTL 2.0 opening to be more like

[Eric83]

Over 50,000 times

[Mr. Vixen]

I keep it 100% honey.

[allmc2008]

450

[Eric83]

LOL I did my math wrong. I was like I know ain't nobody watch that sh-t 50,000 times.

[EricMontreal22]

It really was--taking the concept, and returning to the music of the 20th Anniversary opening (which is what I first learned as being the AMC theme) was brilliant. I know some didn't, but I even liked them writing the character names (which didn't work on B&B here they flashed the character and actor names so fast anyone would be confused). When I started watching AMC back in '91 I remember I would always wonder who a good number of the characters were in the photos--it took at least a month before I saw Ruth or Joe and Phoebe actually on the show, and at the time they still had the final Martin family photo with Joey/Jake who had already left when I started watching.

Ha OK, that's ever so slightly more sane. I was gonna say--how many years would you have to watch a show daily to see the opening 50,000 times.

[Mr. Vixen]

960. 8 hours is 480 minutes. Of you were watching it twice a minute, that's 960 times.

Have you ever talked to a professional?

Don't lie to this boy.

[EricMontreal22]

Ha I love that opening--again prob cuz it's what I first associated with OLTL and as a 12 year old it looked all random and cool (I wondered which characters were meant to be represented--of course now I realize, absolutely nobody). But now I see it as basically dated camp that would only suit a series based on Harlequin Romances (and I mean the books from the late 80s only). Still kinda like the melody though which I think could be updated without the synth.

I have NEVER gotten the love for the Rauch opening--though I do understand why people have an attachment to it. And when fans suggested reusing the song, with those lyrics that make Annie's "Tomorrow" sound deep, for a new opening, I lost it. But it did suit the era--back when every sitcom had a sing songy theme, etc.

Back to OLTL's opening, it's still so odd that Loving had, for less than 5 months, an opening that seemed to be the prototype for the OLTL opening--but then pulled it before OLTL's premiered (Loving had a couple of pretty terrible sung openings as well):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Hitj4qrRfM

[juppiter]

It screams early 90s but I actually don't hate it. The one that followed was timeless and should not have been replaced -- when they did replace it what followed seemed more dated than it did.

[allmc2008]

He can't. Mother use to sing this too me when I was little.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnzHtm1jhL4