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   From: rabrabbjb@yahoo.com   
      
   On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:28:45 -0400, DonnaB shallotpeel   
    wrote:   
      
   >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?   
      
   That's a bobble on the part of the Wikipedia writer. ABC *used* the   
   music, they didn't *lend* it.   
      
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