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   From: shallotpeel@comcast.net   
      
   In rec.arts.tv on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:10:10 -0500 in Msg.#   
   , Barbara Bailey   
     wrote:   
      
   > 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?   
      
   Surely they would have if for no other reason to negotiate a fee.   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Well, for that matter, CBS doesn't own Y&R so that could potentially add in   
   one more party. At that time that party would have been the Bell family   
   corporation. (Now Y&R is owned by the Bell family corporation and Sony.)   
      
   > >[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.)   
      
   This is interesting.    
      
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