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   From: shallotpeel@comcast.net   
      
   In rec.arts.tv on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:11:05 -0500 in Msg.#   
   <0bjdh39401363b035qlk0tu2s35rm9kf15@4ax.com>, Barbara Bailey   
     wrote:   
      
   [snipped]   
      
   > It was the TV theme before it was a hit. It isn't a previous hit that   
   > became a theme song.   
   >   
   > It was incidental music in the movie before it was used as the TV   
   > theme. But it was the TV theme that was released and charted to #8,   
   > even though it was more associated with Nadia than with the TV show at   
   > the time the single was released.   
   >   
   > What I don't know is how severely it was reworked between _Bless the   
   > Beasts and Children_ and _The Young and The Restless_.   As "Cotton's   
   > Dream", it was only released as a cut on the _Bless the Beasts_   
   > sountrack album, never as a single.   
   >   
   > So the timeline is:   
   > 1971: "Cotton's Dream" in _Bless the Beasts and Children_. Not a hit,   
   > not a single.   
   >   
   > 1973: Reworked and used as the theme for _The Young and The Restless_   
   > Sources vary as to whether it was "reworked", "rescored" by Perry   
   > Botkin Jr,  or simply used as is for Y&R.   
   >   
   > Summer 1976: Used by ABC Sports to accompany the replay footage of   
   > Nadia's perfect 10 on the horizontal bars; identified on air as "The   
   > Theme from The Young and The Restless"; becomes identified as "Nadia's   
   > Theme" by non-Y&R viewers.  Barry Devorzon says that the actual music   
   > played was in fact "Cotton's Dream," from the _Bless the Beasts and   
   > Children_ soundtrack; other sources say that it was the Y&R theme that   
   > was used.   
      
   So, the question is germane: who gave ABC permission to use what?   
      
   [snipped]   
      
   > The big questions are: How different is "Cotton's Dream" from "The   
   > Young and The Restless"?  Which one was used with the footage of   
   > Nadia? Which one was released as "Nadia's Theme (The Young and The   
   > Restless)"?  I can find the opening theme from Y&R online, but I can't   
   > find either the original ABC Olympic footage or the _Bless the Beasts   
   > and Children_ soundtrack album to compare it with.   
      
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