This is a beautiful version to "As the World Turns". As a child, this was my mom's favorite soap opera. So, in loving tribute to my mom, on her birthday.....Happy Birthday, Mom...... And thank you for posting this timeless classic. They don't make them like this anymore.....
Brought tears to my eyes! I thought about my late mother and how much she loved this show, and passed it on to me. We must respect the older generation of fans, like my mother. They are the reason these shows are still on the air!
And a couple of weeks ago, now the force of nature known as Elizabeth Hubbard passed away. And last year Lisa Brown, so now both of Lily Walsh’s tv mothers are gone. 😢
Hey, forget all those other worthless tunes that ATWT used in the later years! All they needed was this beautiful melody created by Charles Paul and used during the show's heyday back during the first quarter-century that it was on the air. It became ATWT's signature tune accompanying the traditional image of the Earth rotating in space. If ATWT had stuck with this imagery and theme throughout it existence, it might still be on the air today! :-)
I saw the last episode of As The World Turns, and it is a shame that they did not go out with the full credits. In addition, they should have used this clip as their closing. 54 years....It should have had a better ending.......
Thank you so much for posting this. I remember this theme before it was changed in the fall of 1981. This music is too beautiful ! ! It never should've changed ever ! ! Like Days Of Our Lives, and Young And Restless. I especially love this as it is blue, which is my favorite color. A million thank-you's ! ! !
This theme is a beautiful piece of music. I agree, CBS should bring this theme back, because it seems like the opening now was thrown together without giving much thought. I grew up listening to this theme. As a child, this was my mom's favorite soap opera. So, in loving memory, of her birthday yesterday, the 18th of November, I played this video. Thank you for putting this together.......
May God bless Charles Paul for having written the magnificent theme song to "ATWT", and may God also bless the unidentified arranger who transformed the song into a gut-wrenchingly powerful miniature symphony that gives me goosebumps and brings tears to my eyes!
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It was a jazz version similar to Chuck Mangione's "Feels So Good" and "Give It All You Got" -they used a flugelhorn-. It brought back the harpsicord (although electric) in this theme.
I love this video. It takes me back when I began watching 30 years ago. Helen Wagner(Nancy Hughes) is listed in Guinness book as the person who has played the same character the longest(51 years and still going).
Another great announcer was the late Dwight Weist, who announced on "Search For Tomorrow" for most of its 35 years, I think right up to the change to NBC. He also co-founded the Weist-Barron School that teaches announcing & voice-over work.
So in one form or another, "We'll Search For Tomorrow" was used from 1974-86, until the very last months in '86, when that TV action show-like opening sequence (retaining the moving clouds but incorporating cast images) was used with the techno-rock "Somewhere In The Night," the closing featuring an image of the "McCleary" brothers, who had by then taken over the show, making it not at all the same "Henderson" where "Jo" and the "Bergmans" had thrived for so many years.
Nice work, in spite of a few spelling errors, but I will not quibble over those. The video's quality is absolutely splendid enough that a few misspells can be forgiven! :)
Actually, after the original "Search" theme used from 1951 until the early '70's, there was a briefly-used theme (a few weeks), before the second (and some think best) "Search" theme, "We'll Search For Tomorrow," which was rendered in instrumental, vocal, organ, piano, harpsichord and orchestral versions, then re-vamped as a disco version for the very end of the CBS and the beginning of the NBC years.
It too was played on organ/piano, then later as an orchestral version. Most long-time "GL" fans feel either that or the theme music used in the late '70's till early '80s, "Ritounelle" (played over a title card shot of a ray of light shining through tree leaves), were the best music and opening/closing sequences in the history of that soap.
I have your answer. Eileen Fulton has the special placement in the credits because it's in her contract. A few other soap stars have varying clauses of similar affect (Deidre Hall and Susan Lucci being the most prominent).
@Chicago10281 ATWT was one of my favorites. It holds a special place in my life because I learned geography off the globe when I was a kid. When I saw Kim get caught off guard by a twister, that's what got me hooked. I also liked AW, SFT, EON, TEXAS and (though I barely remember it) FOR RICHER FOR POORER
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The CBS version spilled over into the NBC years until 1986. The Friday of the Henderson Flood storyline was the last day that the Chuck Mangione influenced theme was used. The following Monday, the first of two openings with the Billy Chinnock theme debuted. Steele was dropped when the show abbeviated the opening sometime in late 1984.
Great job. I would love to see the same thing done with the closing credits of EDGE OF NIGHT. I like the closing where the title comes up from behind the buildings and the Cortner and Barranco closing but without the song just the music.
And I guess it's a matter of interpretation--what you call Mangione I also hear as Latin disco, but we're talking about the first theme music used in the NBC years, that re-worked "We'll Search For Tomorrow," which was originally written for the 1970's CBS years.
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@Chicago10281 ...also that it was the first daytime drama to be 30 minutes by a few hours...on that day THE EDGE OF NIGHT premiered as well. It was also one of the first soaps to use a character generator for its credits instead of a drum in the late 70s, plus the only P&G soap that billboarded using both key cards and slides simultaneously in the early days...
I would love to see you do one for the classic 1950's/'60's "Search For Tomorrow," as well one using either or both the piano/organ & early orchestral versions of "We'll Search for Tomorrow" used in the early-to-mid '70's. But the twist would be doing at least one of them with a cast/credits roll of the NBC years. Actually, maybe do that with the classic theme, since even that Mangione-like version was a variation of the one used in the mid-'70's at CBS?
All of the P&G shows on the air at the time switched to orchestral versions (ATWT, GL, AW and EON) of their theme songs. The only other P&G show SEARCH FOR TOMORROW changed themes altogether in that time.
I love the current theme from AMC, but I wish they would bring back the opening before it: where you got a glimpse of the poem and the shots of the cast with their names in their own handwriting
Technically, EDGE OF NIGHT was the first soap to do squeeze credits by having them disappear under the logo as they rolled. ANOTHER WORLD was second but they had scenes from that day's episode with their music. I'm amendable to that.
Kinda' like a Diva, huh? Thanks so much for your answer... :-) P.S. Notice how BEAUTIFUL the music was on this closing unlike what you hear nowadays! Seems generations past had class, no?
I'd love to see what you could do with the early 1970's theme music of "The Guiding Light" and today's credits, using either the blue, night skyline or orange-hued, at-dusk title cards with the lighthouse. The closing theme was a combination of "La Lumiere" and "Rue d'Or," the latter used as incidental music for the character of "Peggy Scott Dilman Fletcher Thorpe" and as mid-show bumper music.
Thank you!! Thank you!! Thank you!! I absolutely love this. You even located the old Lydian typeface for the title and credits, which is not an inexpensive font to purchase. Something like this is way beyond Christopher Goutman's ability to comprehend. P&G should have never replaced this theme back in '81. By the way, how did you get such a clean copy of the theme? Thanks again!!
No, Weist was still announcing as of 1981--I have a clip from the later CBS years with Weist announcing. Anyway, even with your info., that doesn't contradict what I wrote originally, that Weist announced for most of the show's 35 years.
I like that the Names of the Child Characters and their Portrayers are included - my only complaint is that HELEN WAGNER as "Nancy" should have been at the very top of the List!
Of course there was an earlier version played on an organ, first "live for the next thirty minutes," then "live for the next sixty minutes" in the intros. But this is superb how you used the present-day credits with the classic theme music, which is, like so many of the soap themes (not to mention the actors & storylines), better than anything post-1980.
It would be my take on it. Besides there are other posters that did load up ATWT closings from those years. The reason it's with a "twist" is that I'm using current names.
I've even caught TV networks themselves making spelling errors & omissions of actor credits on episodes, so you're right--why quibble over an essentially good job!
Then how about using a late '60's cast roll with either the mid-'70's music theme or even one from the NBC years--the Mangione version or the Chinook theme? I would be willing to supply you with a definitive 1968-69 cast list, and some '60's & '70's videos.
@williambrown007 What about EON's Nancy and Raven, or RH's Maeve, AW's Iris and Rachel, SFT's Jo? Let's not forget these Grand Dames or the historical forerunners for which these "alleged divas" have modeled themselves after ! !
@Chicago10281 It was my favorite becuase I learned geography off the spinning globe when I was a kid. I also miss AW, TEXAS, SFT, EDGE, GL, PC and though I barely remember it ANOTHER LIFE
@adelgado75 If it is in the legend of P&G soaps, it's most likely to do a full credit list. Everyone of the P&G shows did one on the day of cancellation or the day before.
But I think someone else has already done something with "Ritounelle" here on Tube. Anyway, if you're interested, let me know & I'll send you the theme music and a video clip, title cards for "GL" from that period. Really, you should submit this to P&G/CBS--it's that good! It would probably bring back some old fans too, along with if the producers brought back "Penny" and "John Dixon," Zach Roerig as "Casey," and had more storylines with "Nancy," "Dr. Bob," and a more feisty "Lisa."
If you just do the voice-over in your own voice (or get someone with a fairly resonant, deep voice like McCullough's, if yours isn't), perhaps could say something like "This portion of 'ATWT' has been brought to you by Ivory Soap . . . 99 and 44/100% pure, so pure, it floats!" Ha-ha, but it's plenty fine as it is without any voice-over. You could really work for the networks with a talent like this!
This is a beautiful version to "As the World Turns". As a child, this was my mom's favorite soap opera. So, in loving tribute to my mom, on her birthday.....Happy Birthday, Mom...... And thank you for posting this timeless classic. They don't make them like this anymore.....
Brought tears to my eyes! I thought about my late mother and how much she loved this show, and passed it on to me. We must respect the older generation of fans, like my mother. They are the reason these shows are still on the air!
RIP Helen Wagner, Kathryn Hays Marine Schulenberg and any others that may have passed that I overlooked. I miss this show and all the characters.
Marnie not Marine sorry this I pad and it' s spell checking I didn't notice until after I posted.
And a couple of weeks ago, now the force of nature known as Elizabeth Hubbard passed away. And last year Lisa Brown, so now both of Lily Walsh’s tv mothers are gone. 😢
Hey, forget all those other worthless tunes that ATWT used in the later years! All they needed was this beautiful melody created by Charles Paul and used during the show's heyday back during the first quarter-century that it was on the air. It became ATWT's signature tune accompanying the traditional image of the Earth rotating in space. If ATWT had stuck with this imagery and theme throughout it existence, it might still be on the air today! :-)
I saw the last episode of As The World Turns, and it is a shame that they did not go out with the full credits. In addition, they should have used this clip as their closing. 54 years....It should have had a better ending.......
Thank you so much for posting this. I remember this theme before it was changed in the fall of 1981. This music is too beautiful ! ! It never should've changed ever ! ! Like Days Of Our Lives, and Young And Restless. I especially love this as it is blue, which is my favorite color. A million thank-you's ! ! !
This theme is a beautiful piece of music. I agree, CBS should bring this theme back, because it seems like the opening now was thrown together without giving much thought. I grew up listening to this theme. As a child, this was my mom's favorite soap opera. So, in loving memory, of her birthday yesterday, the 18th of November, I played this video. Thank you for putting this together.......
May God bless Charles Paul for having written the magnificent theme song to "ATWT", and may God also bless the unidentified arranger who transformed the song into a gut-wrenchingly powerful miniature symphony that gives me goosebumps and brings tears to my eyes!
Simply...WONDERFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Stay tuned for Guiding Light, next on most of these CBS stations.
Join us again tomorrow for another full hour of drama on As the World Turns. Kenneth A Huang 7/11/2022
This is SO nostalgic, almost heartbreaking to watch, with ATWT gone now!
It was a jazz version similar to Chuck Mangione's "Feels So Good" and "Give It All You Got" -they used a flugelhorn-. It brought back the harpsicord (although electric) in this theme.
I love this video. It takes me back when I began watching 30 years ago. Helen Wagner(Nancy Hughes) is listed in Guinness book as the person who has played the same character the longest(51 years and still going).
I second that. This theme is one of my first memories growing up in the early '60's.
Excellent work! ahhh, the way things used to be
I just love the ATWT theme music!!
Another great announcer was the late Dwight Weist, who announced on "Search For Tomorrow" for most of its 35 years, I think right up to the change to NBC. He also co-founded the Weist-Barron School that teaches announcing & voice-over work.
So in one form or another, "We'll Search For Tomorrow" was used from 1974-86, until the very last months in '86, when that TV action show-like opening sequence (retaining the moving clouds but incorporating cast images) was used with the techno-rock "Somewhere In The Night," the closing featuring an image of the "McCleary" brothers, who had by then taken over the show, making it not at all the same "Henderson" where "Jo" and the "Bergmans" had thrived for so many years.
Has anyone ever notice that Helen Wagner (Nancy Hughes) is the longest running actor of all daytime soap opera actors?
Give me time...some versions are in the works. With me as the announcer.
Nice work, in spite of a few spelling errors, but I will not quibble over those. The video's quality is absolutely splendid enough that a few misspells can be forgiven! :)
This theme is forever intertwined with the JFK assassination for me.
Actually, after the original "Search" theme used from 1951 until the early '70's, there was a briefly-used theme (a few weeks), before the second (and some think best) "Search" theme, "We'll Search For Tomorrow," which was rendered in instrumental, vocal, organ, piano, harpsichord and orchestral versions, then re-vamped as a disco version for the very end of the CBS and the beginning of the NBC years.
It too was played on organ/piano, then later as an orchestral version. Most long-time "GL" fans feel either that or the theme music used in the late '70's till early '80s, "Ritounelle" (played over a title card shot of a ray of light shining through tree leaves), were the best music and opening/closing sequences in the history of that soap.
I have your answer. Eileen Fulton has the special placement in the credits because it's in her contract. A few other soap stars have varying clauses of similar affect (Deidre Hall and Susan Lucci being the most prominent).
@Chicago10281 ATWT was one of my favorites. It holds a special place in my life because I learned geography off the globe when I was a kid. When I saw Kim get caught off guard by a twister, that's what got me hooked. I also liked AW, SFT, EON, TEXAS and (though I barely remember it) FOR RICHER FOR POORER
This portion of As the World Turns has been brought to you today by Crisco. Cooks who know, trust Crisco. And by Jif. For more fresh roasted taste and aroma than any leading brand, Choosy Moms Choose Jif. Kenneth A Huang 8/7/2022.
LOVE this theme.
Where'd you get the full 70s theme? This is great! I haven't heard this entine theme since I was a kid!
The CBS version spilled over into the NBC years until 1986. The Friday of the Henderson Flood storyline was the last day that the Chuck Mangione influenced theme was used. The following Monday, the first of two openings with the Billy Chinnock theme debuted. Steele was dropped when the show abbeviated the opening sometime in late 1984.
Great job. I would love to see the same thing done with the closing credits of EDGE OF NIGHT. I like the closing where the title comes up from behind the buildings and the Cortner and Barranco closing but without the song just the music.
And I guess it's a matter of interpretation--what you call Mangione I also hear as Latin disco, but we're talking about the first theme music used in the NBC years, that re-worked "We'll Search For Tomorrow," which was originally written for the 1970's CBS years.
Stay tuned for Search For Tomorrow next on most of these CBS stations and on some stations stay tuned for Guiding Light 35 minutes from now.
Fashions provided by Lillie Rubin Salons South and Southwest and Barney's
Furs by the Christie Brothers
Join us again tomorrow for As The World Turns
@Chicago10281 ...also that it was the first daytime drama to be 30 minutes by a few hours...on that day THE EDGE OF NIGHT premiered as well. It was also one of the first soaps to use a character generator for its credits instead of a drum in the late 70s, plus the only P&G soap that billboarded using both key cards and slides simultaneously in the early days...
Stay tuned for the Guiding light. Next on the most of these CBS stations.
I would love to see you do one for the classic 1950's/'60's "Search For Tomorrow," as well one using either or both the piano/organ & early orchestral versions of "We'll Search for Tomorrow" used in the early-to-mid '70's. But the twist would be doing at least one of them with a cast/credits roll of the NBC years. Actually, maybe do that with the classic theme, since even that Mangione-like version was a variation of the one used in the mid-'70's at CBS?
All of the P&G shows on the air at the time switched to orchestral versions (ATWT, GL, AW and EON) of their theme songs. The only other P&G show SEARCH FOR TOMORROW changed themes altogether in that time.
I love the current theme from AMC, but I wish they would bring back the opening before it: where you got a glimpse of the poem and the shots of the cast with their names in their own handwriting
Technically, EDGE OF NIGHT was the first soap to do squeeze credits by having them disappear under the logo as they rolled. ANOTHER WORLD was second but they had scenes from that day's episode with their music. I'm amendable to that.
Kinda' like a Diva, huh? Thanks so much for your answer... :-) P.S. Notice how BEAUTIFUL the music was on this closing unlike what you hear nowadays! Seems generations past had class, no?
Question: I was wondering why Eileen Fulton appears to have a significant "place" in the credits of as ATWT...Why is this? (Eillen Fulton as "Lisa") ?
I'd love to see what you could do with the early 1970's theme music of "The Guiding Light" and today's credits, using either the blue, night skyline or orange-hued, at-dusk title cards with the lighthouse.
The closing theme was a combination of "La Lumiere" and "Rue d'Or," the latter used as incidental music for the character of "Peggy Scott Dilman Fletcher Thorpe" and as mid-show bumper music.
Thank you!! Thank you!! Thank you!!
I absolutely love this. You even located the old Lydian typeface for the title and credits, which is not an inexpensive font to purchase.
Something like this is way beyond Christopher Goutman's ability to comprehend. P&G should have never replaced this theme back in '81.
By the way, how did you get such a clean copy of the theme?
Thanks again!!
fantastic!
No, Weist was still announcing as of 1981--I have a clip from the later CBS years with Weist announcing. Anyway, even with your info., that doesn't contradict what I wrote originally, that Weist announced for most of the show's 35 years.
Hal Simms did the announcing between 1974-1981, Alison Steele did the announcing from 1981-1985
I like that the Names of the Child Characters and their Portrayers are included - my only complaint is that HELEN WAGNER as "Nancy" should have been at the very top of the List!
That's because it's the full version without any announcers. I'm working on my own version soon.
What year is this it would be nice to know?
I MISS IT TOO!!!!!!!! 😫😫😫😫😫
Of course there was an earlier version played on an organ, first "live for the next thirty minutes," then "live for the next sixty minutes" in the intros. But this is superb how you used the present-day credits with the classic theme music, which is, like so many of the soap themes (not to mention the actors & storylines), better than anything post-1980.
No it was not presented live for the next 60 minutes
It would be my take on it. Besides there are other posters that did load up ATWT closings from those years. The reason it's with a "twist" is that I'm using current names.
I've even caught TV networks themselves making spelling errors & omissions of actor credits on episodes, so you're right--why quibble over an essentially good job!
Then how about using a late '60's cast roll with either the mid-'70's music theme or even one from the NBC years--the Mangione version or the Chinook theme? I would be willing to supply you with a definitive 1968-69 cast list, and some '60's & '70's videos.
I Love It!
this is the best of all!
The old theme of ATWT should have been left alone
but sadly they had no choice but to change the theme in 1981 to keep up with the times.
Still, I wished they had kept the second theme , when it was updated around 1973, (I could be wrong) I miss As The World Turns so much
Couldn't agree more! This is what they played at my first wife's funeral. "As The World Turns...and life goes on...in her memory."
@@jmjfanss They should have kept the theme Young & the restless has never changed their theme since they started back in 1973.
@@ericpurkey7502 competition from ABC soaps forced p&g to change their themes and logos.
What software did you use to create this? I'm impressed by the quality..
Very nice. Not a pop or scratch in that theme. It doesn't sound so old. What did you use to create the animation?
@williambrown007 What about EON's Nancy and Raven, or RH's Maeve, AW's Iris and Rachel, SFT's Jo? Let's not forget these Grand Dames or the historical forerunners for which these "alleged divas" have modeled themselves after ! !
What are the odds that CBS will allow the show to have a full credit crawl for the last time?
@Chicago10281 It was my favorite becuase I learned geography off the spinning globe when I was a kid. I also miss AW, TEXAS, SFT, EDGE, GL, PC and though I barely remember it ANOTHER LIFE
@adelgado75 If it is in the legend of P&G soaps, it's most likely to do a full credit list. Everyone of the P&G shows did one on the day of cancellation or the day before.
But I think someone else has already done something with "Ritounelle" here on Tube. Anyway, if you're interested, let me know & I'll send you the theme music and a video clip, title cards for "GL" from that period.
Really, you should submit this to P&G/CBS--it's that good! It would probably bring back some old fans too, along with if the producers brought back "Penny" and "John Dixon," Zach Roerig as "Casey," and had more storylines with "Nancy," "Dr. Bob," and a more feisty "Lisa."
Brad died to go to days of our lives
Caught it after I uploaded it. My bad.
You are welcome.
Should have left the original theme alone and the show would have never been cancelled
If you just do the voice-over in your own voice (or get someone with a fairly resonant, deep voice like McCullough's, if yours isn't), perhaps could say something like "This portion of 'ATWT' has been brought to you by Ivory Soap . . . 99 and 44/100% pure, so pure, it floats!" Ha-ha, but it's plenty fine as it is without any voice-over. You could really work for the networks with a talent like this!
@seikogoldwatch2009
BOO!
No, I am not talking abut that horrid NBC version, but the CBS music.