This song had three different titles in a 5 year span spreading from 1971-1976. The first title was "Cotton's Dream", and appeared in the movie "Bless The Beasts & The Children", a Columbia picture. Then, in 1974, Screen Gems Television used it for the long running soap opera, "The Young & The Restless." Finally, in 1976 during the 1976 Olympics, Nadia Comenecci. This promotion and exposure was enough to send this five year old song up the charts into the Top Ten and earn a Grammy award for DeVorson & Botkin, Jr., two musicians that formerly ran the Valliant Record label from 1960-1966 and had hits with Shelby Flint, The Association, and The Cascades. Barry DeVorsion had his own group in 1963 that had a Top 40 hit with "I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight" as Barry & The Tamerlanes.
@@Greenwings701 Yes it was an amazing event. All considering that Nadia used an already five year old song from a movie and TV show for her performance. She must have been a fan of "The Young And The Restless"; perhaps that's where she got the musical score from. I'm not sure if Nadia ever saw the 1971 movie.
Finally I found the correct version that was all over the airwaves when I was a child in the early 70’s. The correct intonations and segues and bridges. Thank you.
Perry Botkin, Jr. passed away on January 18th, 2021 at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California. He was 87 years old... Along with Barry De Vorzon, his "Nadia's Theme (The Young and The Restless)" peaked at #8 {for 2 weeks} on Billboard's Top 100 chart and it spent twenty-two weeks on the Top 100... The record's B-Side also made the Top 100, "Bless The Beasts And Children" made the Top 100, it peaked at #82... "Nadia's Theme (The Young and The Restless)" won the 1976 Grammy Award for 'Best Instrumental Arrangement'... May he R.I.P.
The most beautiful musical theme from a TV series is the main theme from the series "Twin Peaks" (1990), the music being composed by Angelo Badalamenti ... two versions are made ... an instrumental version and another version with text, the part the vocal being performed by soprano Julee Cruise ...
I imagine myself walking by and picking up the occasional stone to throw in a lake or river in summer. Or just the feeling of sitting and holding a warm-blooded something or someone. And I did once sit and hold a sleeping three-month old infant when this lovely tune came on TV at a friend's.
I've been in love with this piece of music (and the harp) ever since a music teacher played it for us in my 3rd grade class. He turned off the overhead lights, had us close our eyes and lay our heads down on our desks and just LISTEN. He played it twice. The violin and harp thrilled me and reached inside my heart awakening something deep within me. I'd never been moved like that before. I've LOVED it ever since. After that, it haunted me and I needed to be able to hear it over and over, so it was the second album I ever owned. For years, even into adulthood, oftentimes when I listened to it, I'd weep... it was like I was "hearing the sound of my own soul" or something... It's always been that deeply moving to me. Eventually, I learned that a soap opera (Y&R) used "Cotton's Dream" as the show's theme song; an association which, to me, felt like a degradation to this extraordinarily beautiful piece of audial heaven. That song was improved upon by adding more length and named, "Nadia's Theme." Since the music itself came to me first, I chose to simply ignore the soap opera association and just allow myself to get lost in the improved exquisiteness of it which is "Nadia's Theme."🎶💕🎶🥰🎶💕🎶
I definitely agree with you about Y&R. Nadia's Theme is far too good for a soap IMO. It is the music that inspired me to become a pianist in the first place.
Absolutely beautiful piece of music it makes you think about all the regrets you have in your life and it also makes you think about the love that you've lost just a beautiful song the version that Gina romalatti does on the show Young and restless is also beautiful
I get goosebumps when I hear this beautiful song. I started watching Y&R at its onset and it was because of this song. This was before computers, iPods, etc. I wanted to HAVE this beautiful song. But the only way I could hear it was to watch Y&R. The Bells were genius to get this theme for their show.
I remember learning/singing this song in school back in the 1970's. Though I loved (and still do) rock and roll, I have always loved this song. Beautiful!
I cannot help as a grown man to cry whenever I hear this song because it has that somebody's-done-somebody-wrong connotation as well as it makes me think of worshiping the ground that my wife walks on and how lucky I am to have her in my life.
Several Years after Cottons Dream came out Barry DeVorzon teamed up with Joe Walsh to write "In The City" which was the theme to the 1979 Classic "The Warriors"
Stunningly gorgeous arrangement. Can't decide whether I like this version or Henry Mancini's version better. Both are beautiful--and I never get tired of getting lost in its musical genuis
Barry DeVorzon composed it and of course, wrote the arrangement you hears as well. It is the way he wanted it played. I appreciate Mancini's touch to almost any piece of music, but he was in over his head on this one.
Henry Mancini had absolutely nothing to do with this song. Not the original version here, nor the version used for “The Young and the Restless”. Someone just thought this song sounds similar to Mancini’s work and misattributed it to him.
It’s not called a song unless there is a vocal part. That’s the definition of a “song”. There doesn’t even necessarily need to be music. This is an instrumental.
It takes me back to the war in Rhodesia...... burying good friends killed defending our country and the sadness that accompanies not seeing them any more....
I picture when listening Nadia in 1976 and getting her perfect 10. She got six more perfect 10’s. I was in high school at the time. I was 13 when I saw my first Olympics in Munich in 1972 and saw Olga Korbut. Gymnastics is the only sport I like in the Summer Olympics.
There was also a slower and chilling reprise version of Nadia's Theme (Cotton's Dream) used at the end of _Bless The Beasts And The Children._ I was told a rendition of that version was used on The Young & The Restless during the death scene of Christine "Cricket" Blair's mother Jessica. Although I've never seen the episode, I've read that the scene was very intense and that music would have been a perfect fit for such a scene.
@@AndrewSmith-uz8bg Well, doubt no more. It was originally named "Cotton's Dream" when it came out in 1971, then renamed "Nadia's Theme" in 1976 after Nadia Comăneci.
At 12 years old I had the hots for Nadia Comaneci in her tight white .... dance outfit (for lack of a better term) and her delightful performances for 10, 10, 10 at the summer Olympics that year. I bought the 45rpm (never sounded this good). I thought it had a green cover, but I could be mistaken since it's been 43 years now.
I had the 45 too, and I remember a tan cover just as is here- There was something slightly defective abut the recording though and I finally decided that it was somehow pressed that way and not because the vinyl itself was warped- it "warbled" somehow, wowed and fluttered. I loved it anyway and still do, and it sounds sooo much better here. This is the best and original version played on the radio. Never saw the soap opera, but Nadia was memorable in the Olympics, flawless.
p.s. I think I saw the green cover too at thrift stores through the years- not unusual to have different covers, or especially different labels on 45- this one was A&M and I'm recalling without looking at it.
I have this 45rpm -- same cover. BUT, before Nadia, before Young & The Restless, I remember this song from the very disturbing film, *_Bless The Beasts And The Children_*. If I'm not mistaken it was this very same recording.
Yep, it was called "Cotton's Dream" on the BTBATC soundtrack. That was 1971. It became the theme for the Young and the Restless in 1973. Boktin and Devorzin got a lot of mileage out of this melody.
Gracias por subir el video , hirosh58. Excelente música. Inmortal. Etérea y sugerente. Comparto con usted unas melodías UA-cam : Stelvio Cipriani - " Mary´s theme " ( 1969 ) Vincent Bell - " Airport love theme " ( 1970 ) Saludos desde Chile , Sud América.
This is a tribute to Nadia, but let's make things clear: This song was never used by her, for her floor competitions. It seems that the song she used in Montreal 1976 for the floor task was a musical arrangement of "Yes Sir, That' My Baby", of Frank Sinatra.
This song had three different titles in a 5 year span spreading from 1971-1976. The first title was "Cotton's Dream", and appeared in the movie "Bless The Beasts & The Children", a Columbia picture. Then, in 1974, Screen Gems Television used it for the long running soap opera, "The Young & The Restless." Finally, in 1976 during the 1976 Olympics, Nadia Comenecci. This promotion and exposure was enough to send this five year old song up the charts into the Top Ten and earn a Grammy award for DeVorson & Botkin, Jr., two musicians that formerly ran the Valliant Record label from 1960-1966 and had hits with Shelby Flint, The Association, and The Cascades. Barry DeVorsion had his own group in 1963 that had a Top 40 hit with "I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight" as Barry & The Tamerlanes.
Thanks for the great information about this great music!
Nadia was such an astonishing gymnast, first 10 in Olympic gymnastics history, and she got seven of them. The song was everywhere.
@@Greenwings701 Yes it was an amazing event. All considering that Nadia used an already five year old song from a movie and TV show for her performance. She must have been a fan of "The Young And The Restless"; perhaps that's where she got the musical score from. I'm not sure if Nadia ever saw the 1971 movie.
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This track will take you on a journey to your past to reflect.
yes
The Young & The Restless was the one soap opera that I loved to watch when I'd be staying home from school if I was sick or anything like that.
Finally I found the correct version that was all over the airwaves when I was a child in the early 70’s. The correct intonations and segues and bridges. Thank you.
Perry Botkin, Jr. passed away on January 18th, 2021 at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California. He was 87 years old...
Along with Barry De Vorzon, his "Nadia's Theme (The Young and The Restless)" peaked at #8 {for 2 weeks} on Billboard's Top 100 chart and it spent twenty-two weeks on the Top 100...
The record's B-Side also made the Top 100, "Bless The Beasts And Children" made the Top 100, it peaked at #82...
"Nadia's Theme (The Young and The Restless)" won the 1976 Grammy Award for 'Best Instrumental Arrangement'...
May he R.I.P.
Thank you for sharing that info I was not aware Barry passed away.😢
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Possibly the single best instrumental in the history of television.
Is true
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So true
Have u ever heard the intro to trailer park boys????
The most beautiful musical theme from a TV series is the main theme from the series "Twin Peaks" (1990), the music being composed by Angelo Badalamenti ... two versions are made ... an instrumental version and another version with text, the part the vocal being performed by soprano Julee Cruise ...
Who’s still listening to this in 2022? 🌷✨
2024
I imagine myself walking on a trail on a warm sunny autumn day and the leaves have that perfect golden tone to them before they fall off the trees.
I imagine myself walking by and picking up the occasional stone to throw in a lake or river in summer.
Or just the feeling of sitting and holding a warm-blooded something or someone. And I did once sit and hold a sleeping three-month old infant when this lovely tune came on TV at a friend's.
Hauntingly beautiful!
When did those long, never ending days turn so short? How did we get here? Take me back
It’s an older song that certainly deserves to be recycled every so often...Nadias theme Perfect (10)
RIP Perry Botkin. I was so proud to learn this as a very young piano student over 45 years ago!! ❤️❤️🎹🎹🎹🎹
I've been in love with this piece of music (and the harp) ever since a music teacher played it for us in my 3rd grade class. He turned off the overhead lights, had us close our eyes and lay our heads down on our desks and just LISTEN. He played it twice. The violin and harp thrilled me and reached inside my heart awakening something deep within me. I'd never been moved like that before. I've LOVED it ever since. After that, it haunted me and I needed to be able to hear it over and over, so it was the second album I ever owned. For years, even into adulthood, oftentimes when I listened to it, I'd weep... it was like I was "hearing the sound of my own soul" or something... It's always been that deeply moving to me.
Eventually, I learned that a soap opera (Y&R) used "Cotton's Dream" as the show's theme song; an association which, to me, felt like a degradation to this extraordinarily beautiful piece of audial heaven. That song was improved upon by adding more length and named, "Nadia's Theme." Since the music itself came to me first, I chose to simply ignore the soap opera association and just allow myself to get lost in the improved exquisiteness of it which is "Nadia's Theme."🎶💕🎶🥰🎶💕🎶
I definitely agree with you about Y&R. Nadia's Theme is far too good for a soap IMO.
It is the music that inspired me to become a pianist in the first place.
It makes me want to cry, yet it’s so beautiful I can’t.
I started sobbing hearing this this morning. Dunno why!
Puts me in all kinds of emotions. It also reminds me of my grandmother with her tv playing the soap opera's intro. It'll forever be in my memory.
There have been many versions of Nadia's Theme but imo this is the ONLY version worth listening to.
My heart beats are measured hearing this theme.
beautiful. off the charts. so emotional.
RIP Perry Botkin Jr ; Nadia's Theme in our hearts forever
Absolutely beautiful piece of music it makes you think about all the regrets you have in your life and it also makes you think about the love that you've lost just a beautiful song the version that Gina romalatti does on the show Young and restless is also beautiful
I agree I tweet with Michael Damian Danny Romalotti he's the best👍💯👍💯 😁🤗😍
Can't get much prettier than this.
Beautiful and wonderfull melody, beyond from the heart and the mind
Mom would watch Young and the Restless we would listen to this song
same it was back when life seemed so simpler
The epitome of "Beautiful Music"...
Emmy award winning the young and the restless. cbs
I get goosebumps when I hear this beautiful song. I started watching Y&R at its onset and it was because of this song. This was before computers, iPods, etc. I wanted to HAVE this beautiful song. But the only way I could hear it was to watch Y&R. The Bells were genius to get this theme for their show.
I remember learning/singing this song in school back in the 1970's. Though I loved (and still do) rock and roll, I have always loved this song. Beautiful!
"Join us again for the Young and the Restless."
Musical perfection!!
A double Amen to that
I like this song. Beautiful instrumental!
It's a bittersweet tapestry of life itself.
Thanks for your transcription for this beautiful music...
It's my childhood song from young and the restless 😁😄😃😍
RIP Steve Wright, BBC Radio legend.
I cannot help as a grown man to cry whenever I hear this song because it has that somebody's-done-somebody-wrong connotation as well as it makes me think of worshiping the ground that my wife walks on and how lucky I am to have her in my life.
It's okay, bro. Totally okay. My eyes are watering right now. I've been playing this over and over for the last half hour. It's just that beautiful.
I second that
This is the Best of all versions. The only that makes me cry.
Agreed
Its a beautiful instrumental song (music ) it reflects of the past and of the future
Dark and eerie but beautiful at the same time. Says a lot about the creator of this song.
David Shreve captures the tragedy and pain and beauty of being human.
@@gilbertjimenez8878 Which is why it fit Y&R so well....all the human struggles that were present in that show.
I picked up this exact record I found at a record shop and I finally looked it up to hear what it sounds like and wow so beautiful
I believe Barry DeVorzon and Perry Botkin Jr. won a Grammy for this. It was well deserved.
Several Years after Cottons Dream came out Barry DeVorzon teamed up with Joe Walsh to write "In The City" which was the theme to the 1979 Classic "The Warriors"
@@joshuakline1435 DeVorzon wrote "Theme from 'S.W.A.T'" as well. Rhythm Heritage was the studio group that had the #1 hit with it in the US.
Magic melody from 1976 to 2019 Nadia Comâneci from Rumanía.
One of my moms favorites!thanks.
oh good 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶😍👍
It was originally made for 70s movie cotton club, Bless the Beasts and the Children. So beautiful, but sad.
The only way to keep my mom sitting down in the 80s was to get her hooked on a couple of serials....
HER mom watched it....😁
Original vintage theme for Emmy award winning YNR 🏆 on CBS . Williams Bell Production Television City Hollywood California
Perfection..
Stunningly gorgeous arrangement. Can't decide whether I like this version or Henry Mancini's version better. Both are beautiful--and I never get tired of getting lost in its musical genuis
Barry DeVorzon composed it and of course, wrote the arrangement you hears as well. It is the way he wanted it played.
I appreciate Mancini's touch to almost any piece of music, but he was in over his head on this one.
Henry Mancini had absolutely nothing to do with this song. Not the original version here, nor the version used for “The Young and the Restless”. Someone just thought this song sounds similar to Mancini’s work and misattributed it to him.
This is the original one by the composer
This theme is from the movie Bless the Beast and the Children 1971. Also The Carpenters sang the song. I was 14 when I saw the movie. I am now 65.
Makes me think of my college days in the late eighties; would have to hear this theme in it’s entirety when they played it at the end of the show.
So beautiful
Very good song❤️
2019?
From 1976
It’s not called a song unless there is a vocal part. That’s the definition of a “song”. There doesn’t even necessarily need to be music.
This is an instrumental.
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2020
Listening to this song makes my heart hot！
It takes me back to the war in Rhodesia...... burying good friends killed defending our country and the sadness that accompanies not seeing them any more....
I picture when listening Nadia in 1976 and getting her perfect 10. She got six more perfect 10’s. I was in high school at the time. I was 13 when I saw my first Olympics in Munich in 1972 and saw Olga Korbut. Gymnastics is the only sport I like in the Summer Olympics.
Me too
Me too, We are of the same age and spirit. My middle name is Lisa. ❤
@@carolisakallas3054 Cool!
I agree! It is sad, but beautiful at the same time...
There was also a slower and chilling reprise version of Nadia's Theme (Cotton's Dream) used at the end of _Bless The Beasts And The Children._ I was told a rendition of that version was used on The Young & The Restless during the death scene of Christine "Cricket" Blair's mother Jessica. Although I've never seen the episode, I've read that the scene was very intense and that music would have been a perfect fit for such a scene.
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The original, the first and best, by the two talented gentlemen who did all the work to create it. Easy for others to come along later and do covers.
I found out about this song because I found my dad's old collection of records
Had this 45 back in college. Classic recording.
Who’s still listening to this in 2021?
Originally called Cotton's Theme from the film Bless The Beasts And Children.
Does anyone remember when this was released on the radio?
TEMASO !!!!!!
經典 原味 完美
Wooooooooow
Que se puede halar de la perfeccion, ojala sea feliz.donde se encuentre se lo merece,.gracias NADIA por hacer mas feliz este vida
Un ángel
Me asusté al leer esto, fui a buscar y fiuf, sigue viva, gracias a Dios...
Named after the incomparable Nadia Comăneci.
If this song originally came out in 1971, I doubt it was named after Nadia Comaneci for the 1976 Olympics.
@@AndrewSmith-uz8bg Well, doubt no more. It was originally named "Cotton's Dream" when it came out in 1971, then renamed "Nadia's Theme" in 1976 after Nadia Comăneci.
@9Ballr Yes but it was the same song in 1971 as 1976 so I disagree with you.
At 12 years old I had the hots for Nadia Comaneci in her tight white .... dance outfit (for lack of a better term) and her delightful performances for 10, 10, 10 at the summer Olympics that year. I bought the 45rpm (never sounded this good). I thought it had a green cover, but I could be mistaken since it's been 43 years now.
I had the "45," and I remember a green cover, too.
I had the 45 too, and I remember a tan cover just as is here- There was something slightly defective abut the recording though and I finally decided that it was somehow pressed that way and not because the vinyl itself was warped- it "warbled" somehow, wowed and fluttered. I loved it anyway and still do, and it sounds sooo much better here. This is the best and original version played on the radio. Never saw the soap opera, but Nadia was memorable in the Olympics, flawless.
p.s. I think I saw the green cover too at thrift stores through the years- not unusual to have different covers, or especially different labels on 45- this one was A&M and I'm recalling without looking at it.
there are some variations between this one(the original) and the one from the tv soap.I prefer this one
Andy Mann I think Henry Mancini's version, is the definitive one. I suggest all listen, and see what I see.
They're both superb and convey different moods
@@bduhe219 Henry didn't do any of the Y&R versions. That was Botkin...he rearranged it for the show. That is the best version. The original.
@@CJTranceAddiction I never said Mancini did it first, I said his is best.
Wonderful Song
1976. Ahhh y 17 años. Ahora...61.
❤🎉 *¡enjoyed at 9:27 pm Pacific Standard Time on Thursday, 8 February 2024!* ❤🎉
I have this 45rpm -- same cover. BUT, before Nadia, before Young & The Restless, I remember this song from the very disturbing film, *_Bless The Beasts And The Children_*. If I'm not mistaken it was this very same recording.
Yep, it was called "Cotton's Dream" on the BTBATC soundtrack. That was 1971. It became the theme for the Young and the Restless in 1973. Boktin and Devorzin got a lot of mileage out of this melody.
What ever happened to Barry Devorzon,? my father knew him in Hollywood in the 1960's.
A REAL WALTER RIZZATI STYLE CLASSIC!
Gracias por subir el video , hirosh58. Excelente música. Inmortal. Etérea y sugerente.
Comparto con usted unas melodías UA-cam :
Stelvio Cipriani - " Mary´s theme " ( 1969 )
Vincent Bell - " Airport love theme " ( 1970 )
Saludos desde Chile , Sud América.
Ni feta a mida per recollir aquest moment de la NADIA ........eterna..........................
That would have been also the perfect theme for Princess Diana. RIP Perry Botkin Jr.
They should of kept this vintage theme for ynr nadias theme
Amor, amor
Richard Connelly.. I couldn't agree with you more!
....solo le anime affini possono ritrovarsi qui ...in queste note ...Meravigliosa
And it sounds very beautiful when played on the Japanese shakuhachi flute.
This is a tribute to Nadia, but let's make things clear: This song was never used by her, for her floor competitions. It seems that the song she used in Montreal 1976 for the floor task was a musical arrangement of "Yes Sir, That' My Baby", of Frank Sinatra.
Rest in peace Jeannie Cooper
Also great score to the TV hit *Mork and Mindy"
I knew how to find this song within its three titles. But it was first known as "Cotton's Dream".
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Rest in peace Mrs c
Reminds me of how hot Cricket was.
Cricket was fine, bruh...
stupid name, though
No recuerdo exactamente de qué año es esta melodía 🎶, pero siento mucha nostalgia al hacerme recordar mi infancia.
Me pasa lo mismo, saludos desde Iquique Chile.
*Les feux de l'amour*
If you're feeling sad
1977 BEST SONG OSCAR CHOLO THE YOUNG ANTHE RESTLESS J. ROWBARDS B. ATKINS
yep your right
The Price is Right is over….
Cuban Link - Flowers for the Dead
Oh, God please give me the strength to keep going...my sister is dying and I don't know how to do...
Y con ellos Lee Ritenour en la guitarra y el gran David Fostet en el piano.
🔥🏆🔥
It's an infant's theme in their young restless world.