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Post by chrislc on Mar 17, 2020 23:55:15 GMT -5
I just thought of something. What was the theme song of The Young And The Restless in 1976? Surely ABC wouldn't have used a CBS program theme in their Olympics coverage, would they? Actually the song was Cotton's Dream from the movie Bless The Beasts and The Children (from 1971) before it was used on the Young & The Restless (beginning in 1973). ABC used the music on a Wide World of Sports re-broadcast of Nadia Comaneci's Summer Olympics gymnast routine (July/August of 1976), which is how the song came to gain it's new title--Nadia's Theme and was released as a single in August of 1976; making it to #8 in December, 1976.
And Now You Know The Rest Of The Story (as a famous news commentator used to say).... Wow, Joe, things must have been much more relaxed back then for CBS to be okay with ABC using the theme song from one of their shows. But at least Roone Arledge didn't steal "Boy the way Glenn Miller played" or "And then there's Maude" or "You're gonna make it after all" for Nadia Comaneci.
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Post by djjoe1960 on Mar 18, 2020 8:24:06 GMT -5
Actually the song was Cotton's Dream from the movie Bless The Beasts and The Children (from 1971) before it was used on the Young & The Restless (beginning in 1973). ABC used the music on a Wide World of Sports re-broadcast of Nadia Comaneci's Summer Olympics gymnast routine (July/August of 1976), which is how the song came to gain it's new title--Nadia's Theme and was released as a single in August of 1976; making it to #8 in December, 1976.
And Now You Know The Rest Of The Story (as a famous news commentator used to say).... Wow, Joe, things must have been much more relaxed back then for CBS to be okay with ABC using the theme song from one of their shows. But at least Roone Arledge didn't steal "Boy the way Glenn Miller played" or "And then there's Maude" or "You're gonna make it after all" for Nadia Comaneci. Actually, Chris, I don't think there was any love lost between CBS and ABC, however, since the music was first used in a movie, I think they both felt it was OK to use it for other purposes.
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Post by chrislc on Mar 18, 2020 18:20:45 GMT -5
Wow, Joe, things must have been much more relaxed back then for CBS to be okay with ABC using the theme song from one of their shows. But at least Roone Arledge didn't steal "Boy the way Glenn Miller played" or "And then there's Maude" or "You're gonna make it after all" for Nadia Comaneci. Actually, Chris, I don't think there was any love lost between CBS and ABC, however, since the music was first used in a movie, I think they both felt it was OK to use it for other purposes. It would have been really something if ABC had used "and you knew who you were then..." for the decathlon champ.
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