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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 444503" data-attributes="member: 57984">As much as I like the better known Season 2 and beyond version of the opening theme, musically and lyrically, they had to have the Season 1 version (the above-posted, alternate version was used in a promo, sent out to the affiliate stations months before the series began airing in fall 1970) because it just taps into the deeply melancholy zeitgeist on the cusp of the &#039;60s &amp; &#039;70s... As I&#039;ve said before, the motange-y style and more forlorn lyric from Season 1, Mary emerging from her past and headed into her future, evokes a period-specific bittersweet mood which can also be found in things like the wordless snow angels/ice skating montage in LOVE STORY, maybe the street montage sequences from MIDNIGHT COWBOY, and the entire movie of HAROLD &amp; MAUDE, among other things.The point being that, as a person -- alive and on the planet at that particular moment in time -- the world actually felt like that. It really did!Reza Badiyi and Mary went to Minneapolis in February 1970, before the show was even cast, to get the footage of Mary trudging through the snow. By happenstance, shortly thereafter Sonny Curtis came in with his &quot;Love is All Around&quot; song and was met by a pleasant-but-detached Jim Brooks (the co-creator and co-producer) who expected to politely dismiss the singer/songwriter with a &quot;don&#039;t call us, we&#039;ll call you; we&#039;re seeing a lot of people&quot; response -- until Curtis performed the song. Was asked to do it several times. And they bought it on the spot.... which, even then, was not the way the business ordinarily worked. [MEDIA=youtube]4dm5GVWe5xE[/MEDIA]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 444503, member: 57984"] As much as I like the better known Season 2 and beyond version of the opening theme, musically and lyrically, they [B]had [/B]to have the Season 1 version (the above-posted, alternate version was used in a promo, sent out to the affiliate stations months before the series began airing in fall 1970) because it just taps into the deeply melancholy zeitgeist on the cusp of the '60s & '70s... As I've said before, the motange-y style and more forlorn lyric from Season 1, Mary emerging from her past and headed into her future, evokes a period-specific bittersweet mood which can also be found in things like the wordless snow angels/ice skating montage in LOVE STORY, maybe the street montage sequences from MIDNIGHT COWBOY, and the entire movie of HAROLD & MAUDE, among other things. The point being that, as a person -- alive and on the planet at that particular moment in time -- the world actually felt like that. It really did! Reza Badiyi and Mary went to Minneapolis in February 1970, before the show was even cast, to get the footage of Mary trudging through the snow. By happenstance, shortly thereafter Sonny Curtis came in with his "Love is All Around" song and was met by a pleasant-but-detached Jim Brooks (the co-creator and co-producer) who expected to politely dismiss the singer/songwriter with a "don't call us, we'll call you; we're seeing a lot of people" response -- until Curtis performed the song. Was asked to do it several times. And they bought it on the spot.... which, even then, was not the way the business ordinarily worked. [MEDIA=youtube]4dm5GVWe5xE[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]

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