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   From: shallotpeel@comcast.net   
      
   In rec.arts.tv on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:44:30 -0500 in Msg.#   
   , Barbara Bailey   
     wrote:   
      
   [snipping]   
      
   > How about "Nadia's Theme" aka the Theme from "the Young and The   
   > Restless"? It *was* the show's theme song for at least a year before   
   > it became Nadia Comaneci's Olympic performance music.   
   >   
   > From Wikipedia:   
   > "Nadia's Theme" is a piece of music composed by Barry De Vorzon and   
   > Perry Botkin, Jr. that currently serves as the theme music to the   
   > American television soap opera The Young and the Restless.   
   >   
   > The melody, originally titled "Cotton's Dream", was written by De   
   > Vorzon and Botkin as incidental music for the 1971 theatrical film   
   > Bless the Beasts and Children. Two years later, Botkin wrote a   
   > rearranged version of the piece for The Young and the Restless; the   
   > show debuted on March 26, 1973. The melody was later renamed "Nadia's   
   > Theme" after the ABC television network lent the music for Romanian   
   > gymnast Nadia Comaneci's performance during the 1976 Summer   
   > Olympics.[1]   
      
   Why does ABC figure in here at all?   
      
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