Favorite Daytime Soap Intros

[Emelee]

Nonetheless, no matter what anyone thinks of her, one of the greatest and most important daytime characters ever.

You think...? I always felt you could switch her to any other desperate love searching woman. I find nothing interesting about her to be honest. Since I was a kid and first started watching, I found her dull. Downright boring to watch. I always found that it was the characters around her that made a story interesting (or not). And nowadays, the character is even more boring because the writers are too scared to make her do anything bad that they end up not making her do anything at all.

B&B has quite a large number of weak women and waffling men. Compare that to GH or DAYS. Not many B&B characters would survive Port Charles or Salem. They'd either be eaten alive or be overshadowed by more interesting characters. A few lucky would survive. Steffy, Thomas, Deacon, Sheila and Bill. Maybe also the new version of Hope, but certainly not the Hope she was before she broke up with Liam.

 

[DallasFanForever]

You think...? I always felt you could switch her to any other desperate love searching woman. I find nothing interesting about her to be honest. Since I was a kid and first started watching, I found her dull. Downright boring to watch. I always found that it was the characters around her that made a story interesting (or not). And nowadays, the character is even more boring because the writers are too scared to make her do anything bad that they end up not making her do anything at all.

You make valid points but I guess I just never got the impression she was boring or dull, at least not for me anyway. I always felt vested in the character, regardless of whether I agreed with her or not. Of course the characters around her also had a big hand in making her more interesting. I won’t deny that, but as far as the reasons I watched years ago, Brooke was always at the very top of that list for me.

I totally agree with what you say about the current show. The Brooke character is no longer compelling to me, but then again I feel that way about the entire show now. Nothing they do grabs me and holds my attention at this point but that’s just my opinion.

 

[Sarah Danner]

When Texas joined the P&G "let's change the theme music" party

 

[rlr718]

It’s actually the instrumental version of this song. I’m not sure if they ever used the lyric version on the show.

I never knew this! Thank you for this! I’m going to go listen to it now.

 

[rlr718]

Billy Chinnock won the Daytime Emmy for Musical Composition and Direction for it in 1986.

I also just read billy chinnock did a duet with Roberta flack called hold on to love which was also used as a theme song for guiding light.

 

[rlr718]

Although I’ve always liked this theme. This is a very clear version.

 

[rlr718]

I never knew this! Thank you for this! I’m going to go listen to it now.

I love this song. It’s so 80s rock. I also love that it has all three mccleary brothers in the video.
If I can find this album I will be getting it. Thank you @Carrie Fairchild

 

[Carrie Fairchild]

When Texas joined the P&G "let's change the theme music" party

Was there an unwritten rule in the 80’s that your opening had to have a clip of at least one character crooning into a mic?

 

[DallasFanForever]

Although I’ve always liked this theme. This is a very clear version.

This was my favorite version of the GL theme. It had such an iconic sound to it. Much preferred it over the earlier versions.

 

[rlr718]

This was my favorite version of the GL theme. It had such an iconic sound to it. Much preferred it over the earlier versions.

And later…..

 

[DallasFanForever]

Was there an unwritten rule in the 80’s that your opening had to have a clip of at least one character crooning into a mic?

I never thought about this but now that you mentioned it I guess it was pretty common. Danny on Y&R comes to mind as well. I’m sure there were others.