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   From: rabrabbjb@yahoo.com   
      
   On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:23:37 -0400, DonnaB shallotpeel   
    wrote:   
      
   > Barbara Bailey wrote:   
      
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   >> 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?   
      
   That leads to a secondary question: did ABC even ask permission?   
      
   Y&R was (and is) a CBS show, the _Bless the Beasts and Children_   
   soundtrack was released on A&M, and the single of Nadia's Theme (The   
   Young and The Restless) was also released by A&M.  At the time, A&M   
   was not owned by any other company.   
      
   Logistically speaking, I believe that it would be substantially easier   
   for ABC Sports to get quick permission from A&M than from CBS.   
      
   >[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.   
      
   In a bit more digging, I did find several videos of the perfect 10   
   bars routine on youtube, one with what is clearly the Y&R opening   
   theme, and one with the same melody in a very slightly different   
   arrangement, less lush and with the opening bars played by a single   
   piano rather than the string section of the Y&R arrangement.  But both   
   of these are videos that were made by individuals, since neither is   
   the slow-motion replay that the music was first used under (the double   
   horizontal bars is not performed to music in the Olympics.)   
      
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