Post any questions of comments about music that was heard on soap opera episodes or music from performers who appeared on soap operas.

The bee in my bonnet -- Catlin and Sally's theme in 1984/1985 was this song which was played at their wedding on a portable stereo. Usually they played a very nice instrumental version in romantic scenes but at the wedding it was a version with vocals and lyrics. Per the AWHP the title was "When" but I have not been able to find any other information about it. Who wrote it? Who sang it? Did it have a life outside AW?

Wedding version:

Instrumental version:

 

As The World Turns

Jeff Baker sings 'Penny'. That was released as a single but I don't think it charted.

 

Hey I’m looking for the song title of the song that was playing during the scene with Blaze and Kristina on Fridays episode of General Hospital.
Thanks in advance! 

 

 

 

One of my favorite soap opera composers was the late Wladimir Selinsky.  He wrote the theme (I think) for the CBS primetime show Our Private World and also my favorite soap opera there, A World Apart.   He also composed (background music, I presume) for Love Is a Many Splendored Thing,

 

He was born on February 15, 1910 and passed away at the age of 74 in 1984.

 

 

Could someone tell me when The Edge of Night stopped using the organ and piano in the opening and switched to orchestrated music?   I know that it was during the CBS run.

Today, I learned that Ray Martin and Edythe Britton composed the theme song for the ABC serial Never Too Young.

Score Productions provided other (probably background) music.

 

Mr. Martin also composed the theme for NBC/Bing Crosby Productions' Bright Promise.

Edited May 6, 20241 yr by danfling

On 2/21/2024 at 10:43 PM, Xanthe said:

The bee in my bonnet -- Catlin and Sally's theme in 1984/1985 was this song which was played at their wedding on a portable stereo. Usually they played a very nice instrumental version in romantic scenes but at the wedding it was a version with vocals and lyrics. Per the AWHP the title was "When" but I have not been able to find any other information about it. Who wrote it? Who sang it? Did it have a life outside AW?

Wedding version:

Instrumental version:

 

@NothinButAttitude posted this helpful info in the Another World thread. It's from Soap Opera Digest and identifies the singers on When as Ullanda McCulloch and Darryl Tookes. It indicates that the song is "not available" which suggests that it was never commercially released. Interestingly, when I look up Darryl Tookes it says that he also sang on the Guiding Light theme, which makes me wonder whether When could have been an in-house P&G piece.

@Contessa Donatella I see you mentioned in the AW thread that the Soap Digest item in the link was mistaken about Bo and Hope's theme, which it lists as "Whatever We Imagine" by James Ingram. The SOD item is from 1989 and based on nostalgia for the way-distant early- to mid-1980s, bless their hearts. I have no idea whether "Whatever We Imagine" might ever have been used for Bo and Hope -- for some reason there do seem to be fan videos on YouTube that have used it, but I didn't find any clips that showed it used in the show. However even if they had another theme it could be possible that "Whatever We Imagine" was used at some point. Maybe a bigger Bo and Hope fan can clarify. 

 

Edited May 13, 20241 yr by Xanthe
Bo and Hope (I refuse to say Bope)

4 hours ago, Xanthe said:

@NothinButAttitude posted this helpful info in the Another World thread. It's from Soap Opera Digest and identifies the singers on When as Ullanda McCulloch and Darryl Tookes. It indicates that the song is "not available" which suggests that it was never commercially released. Interestingly, when I look up Darryl Tookes it says that he also sang on the Guiding Light theme, which makes me wonder whether When could have been an in-house P&G piece.

@Contessa Donatella I see you mentioned in the AW thread that the Soap Digest item in the link was mistaken about Bo and Hope's theme, which it lists as "Whatever We Imagine" by James Ingram. The SOD item is from 1989 and based on nostalgia for the way-distant early- to mid-1980s, bless their hearts. I have no idea whether "Whatever We Imagine" might ever have been used for Bo and Hope -- for some reason there do seem to be fan videos on YouTube that have used it, but I didn't find any clips that showed it used in the show. However even if they had another theme it could be possible that "Whatever We Imagine" was used at some point. Maybe a bigger Bo and Hope fan can clarify. 

 

Bope's theme acknowledged widely & used the last time they were both onscreen is "Tonight I Celebrate My Love For You". 

 

 

 

There are 2 other songs strongly identified with Bope & one of them is the one listed in the article. 

 

7 hours ago, Contessa Donatella said:

Bope's theme acknowledged widely & used the last time they were both onscreen is "Tonight I Celebrate My Love For You". 

 

The last time they were both on-screen must have been much more recent than 1989 when the SOD article was published, so that on its own would not be meaningful. 

6 hours ago, Contessa Donatella said:

There are 2 other songs strongly identified with Bope & one of them is the one listed in the article. 

For each of the couples in the listicle they gave only one love theme. In 1989 Bo and Hope would have been offscreen for more than a year. I don't know how SOD chose between multiple songs but it seems like you can make the case that "Whatever We Imagine" was one of their love themes even if they decided not to list multiple songs. I would probably have wanted to base the decision on how frequently they used it and what kind of scene it tended to be matched with. But if after 1989 they used "Whatever We Imagine" less and "Tonight I Celebrate My Love For You" more, SOD could not have predicted that.

I cannot believe what a hard time I had keeping "Tonight I Celebrate My Love For You" in my head while typing that -- my brain kept flipping it to "If Ever You're in My Arms Again."

Cashbox June 22 1991

FIFTH EMMY AWARD NOMINATION—EARL ROSE (N.Y.) Composer/pianist Earl Rose has been nominated for an Emmy Award for his music for NBC-TV's Another World, the network's longest-running daytime drama. This is Rose's fifth nomination in six years. He has been nominated in the category of Outstanding Achievement in music direction and composition for a Drama Series and has received four previous nominations for his work: In 1990 for his score for ABC-TV's Afterschool Special- My Dad Can't Be Crazy. ..Can He?, and three prior nominations for his music for ABC-TV's award-winning series Ryan's Hope. A successful and prolific TV and motion picture composer. Rose is currently the composer for ABC-TV's daytime drama All My Children and for Ryan's Hope for the last five years of its long run. It was on this show that Johnny Mathis introduced his hit, "Right From The Heart," written by Rose and Kathy Wakefield... He was also the composer for The DickCavett Show (1986-87) and frequently acts as assistant music conductor for NBC-TV's Tonight Show. An in-demand performer, he has just completed a highly successful national 107-city Irving Berlin concert tour—The Irving Berlin Century—with the Earl Rose Orchestra and Singers. He also appears in concert nationally with The Earl Rose Trio. His latest album is Earl Rose Plays Irving Berlin (Amadeus Records). Congratulations on your fifth Emmy nomination...