This brings back memories of my beloved grandma faithfully watching this show I'd say 1975-1984 all through my childhood.. Would always see the opening theme, we all miss her still now she passed in 2005 at age 93. Miss ya gram❤❤❤❤
I’m not into soap operas. However, I think that, hands down, The Young and The Restless has one of the top 5 best opening credits in the history of television period. I could look at these over and over and NEVER get bored!
Thanks for posting this. The Y&R intro is the most beautiful and haunting music I've ever encountered. As a musician, it evokes such emotion. It sends you on a journey.
The 70's and 80's were hands down the golden era of TV, music and entertainment. This timeless masterpiece opening credit has to be one of the best ever and just re-enforces that. The 1999 theme strayed way too far off and modernized it too much. Thankfully they went back the better original version thereafter.
Rest in paradise to the legends that has made Y&R as it is today and made me as a diehard fan of this awesome series: Jeannie Cooper Jerry Douglas Kristoff St. John among others
Billy Miller Meg Bennett Marla Adams Michelle Thomas Paul Walker Jay Bontatibus Andrea Evans Jennifer Leak Roscoe Born Terrence McNally Marguerite Ray Quinn Redeker Michael Tylo Terry Lester Beau Kayzer Sharon Acker Brett Hadley Nick Benedict Sharon Farrell Sally Kellerman Nichelle Nichols Robert Clary Diane McBain Christopher Bennock Eddie Mekka & The legends who have made this show Lee Phillip Bell & William J. Bell
@@machineguy97You forgot Eddie Mekka was in Laverne and Shirley and Paul Walker was in the fast and the furious. The same with Michelle Thomas in Family Matters.
This is a great compilation! Being a portrait artist, my favorite is the '84-'88 years of the Sandy Dvore sketches. They're so moody, atmospheric, and with simplicity capture the essence of each character. Plus, we can't forget that Dvore's logo, established then, is still in use today!
1:28 Melody Thomas Scott as Nikki Reed and Eric Braeden as Victor Newman, 1:46 Terry Lester as Jack Abbott and Jerry Douglas as John Abbott, 1:47 Eileen Davidson as Ashley Abbott, 1:49 Beth Maitland as Traci Abbott, 1:54 Lauralee Bell as Christine Blair, 1:56 Jeanne Cooper as Katherine Chancellor
I love this music . It makes me feel cozy inside .the string section of the young and the restless music, just sounds so warm and cuddly . Does this relate to anyone.
My grandparents soap was "The Young and the Restless". In the 90s, I would rush home from high school and tune into "All My Children". I feel the theme for All My Children and Young and the Restless are fairly iconic themes. You hear them and instantly know the shows they are connected to.
This was not bad at all ; as I watching the theme openings through the 50 years I don't remember the beginning in 1973 since I was only about five but around 1978 and going forward into the 80's and beyond is when I remembered the openings.
Wow! Y&R has been on CBS my whole life and I'm 44 now! I remember my mom and grandmother use to watch this back when I was a little boy in the early 80s and my mom still watches it to this day! Can't believe Victor and Nikki are still on the show, they're such legends!
I absolutely love every single opening of Y&R, from the earlier opening with the sketch drawings to more jazzier sound opening in the late 90s to the 50th year opening starting with the legacy characters like Diane Jenkins and Jack Abbott and ending with Nikki Reed Newman and Victor Newman, I absolutely love it all, fantastic! ❤️🤍🥂
TYATR theme song, IMO is the best soundtrack of all the soaps. So touching. I vividly remember hearing this theme as a kid in the 70s while my mom watched.
As a kid, I never really cares for the show itself, or at least the storyline; but what I do remember, is the beautiful theme song (including the jazz version, 92 baby here), as well as just how beautiful all of their houses looked. (I SOOOO wanted to live in one of their houses!!)
Got hooked on YR when I was in High School and would come home and watch after weight lifting in the mornings during the summer. Fun to watch the drama while 'pumped up'!
The intro from 2003-2012 pulls me back to that time, to where I lived, what I was doing. During bouts of unemployment, and waiting to get a call for an interview or a temp job but almost glad that I didn't have any work to stay home and indulge myself in this show! I was also young (kind of) and restless (well, mostly lazy lol). I just enjoyed this time with my husband and my dog, where we lived. Great memories.
I’ve only been watching Y&R for almost two months now and I must say that the show and it’s opening credits wouldn’t be the same without any of it’s beloved characters, especially Victor Newman, Nikki Newman and Jack Abbott.
Shame this series never really took off in the UK as it is a quality daytime soap. The only "era" I saw was between 1987 and 1990 on Sky One, which is the set of titles with the roman type face and semi-animated head shots. I remember Michael Damien (?), who was a singer being prominent in these episodes. Sky said it was too expensive to buy any more episodes! It changed to lesser known TV channels and sadly hasnt aired here for nearly 15 years. It is the opening and theme tune that attracted me to this series. I love it. And I still listen to it occasionally on here. Happy 50th Anniversary Y&R from the UK!
My mom (rip mom) usecto watch Y&R sunce day one. I was a young whipper snapper back then. (54 now), i remember all of these theme sings. Beings back great memories sitting with my mom watching this great series. Miss her 😢
This has been my mother's soap ever since she came to Canada in the late '70s. I've always thought the theme song was the classiest out of the soaps i've ever seen (though I will say Santa Barbara's theme is my all-time favorite) Anyways, thanks for posting this evolution of the opening theme.
it is crazy to think about how long this show has been on air. But the cast and crew are all so dedicated and really love putting out shows. But we are the reason that they have been doing this for 50 years!
Y&R actually had a live orchestra pit on set in the earlier years, that’s why their scores from the early 70’s were so beautiful and by the time the 80’s came they pretty much-recorded their background scores.
I remember my gradeschool years in the mid/late 70s, and our class would watch those life-lessons short films and their introduction theme music had to be influenced by TY&tR theme.
I live in Europe, in Itally this show was called "Febbre d'amore"= Fever of Love. And in germany it was called "Schatten der Leidenschaft"= Shadows of desire/ Shadows of passion :-) ;-)
This Music is from 1971 Movie Bless The Beast and Children. It is called “Cotton’s Dream” written by Barry De Vorzon and Perry Boykin Jr. Then in 1976 …The Summer Olympics..It turned into Nadia’s Theme for Nadia Comaneci. Which became a huge hit..and everyone recorded their own version of Cotton’s Dream..including Henry Mancini. This is the Original Incidental Music for Bless the Beast and Children…th-cam.com/video/h_Kc2NlFMHo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=POWh6vGCt6_PLM-1
What happened to get in this up my mom was watching all the time when I was a young boy and I obviously don't watch soap operas most males don't but I would give almost anything to watch all these episodes from the beginning to the end
Wow this Theme is Always So Calming to me despite Invoking a Set of Traumatic Memories for me. Which was when o was a Kid and had to make regular visits to my Family Doctor’s Office in some Government Building. Oh yeah I could Remember it like I’ve just been there I could Still Remember walking on to the nearest elevators. And taking it it up to the Fifth Floor and Getting Off and making our ways along a Long and Quite aside from that Dreaded Typewriter and Empty Hallway to the Doctor’s Office. And I would know when we’re getting close as the closer we got the Loader that Dreaded Typewriter Became. And when we entered it wasn’t better and for some reason The Young And The Restless Both Invoked that memory and at the same time Calmness. Like I’ve just said I don’t know how I’ve connected those two. But a little bit of side note I just wished they would stop casting kids that give off that Disney Sitcom Vibe to them. But the Happy News is I’m so Glade that I was able to Watch The Young And The Restless’s 50th Anniversary Special Series of episodes. To which by the way almost Feels like a Completely Deferent Show. In Particular when it came to the Red Carpet Scenes, to which Feels like a series of Entertainment News Segments. Along with the characters that are in the scenes.
I loved it when they would show the opening of Y and R ,have a short pause and then show the sponsor(s) before the episode happens.Now it usually has a sponsor on the first ad after part of it happens.Any chance they could do the show like they used to?
The only time they differ from the iconic Botkin/De Vorizon arrangement was the 1999 red carpet opening, before going back to tried and true (the 1984 remix of it however) ever since. Otherwise they stuck with the Cotton's Dream/Nadia's Theme while so many others changed their themes over the years.
This brings back memories of my beloved grandma faithfully watching this show I'd say 1975-1984 all through my childhood.. Would always see the opening theme, we all miss her still now she passed in 2005 at age 93. Miss ya gram❤❤❤❤
My grandmother would have her little 12 inch screen tv in the kitchen watching this show while she cooked me lunch as a little child. 😭♥️
Same lol except I was born in 2000 and my grandma also watched this throught my childhood.
All the opening credits of Y&R is outstanding. I'm glad it add a new one. Happy 50th Anniversary Y&R.
I’m not into soap operas. However, I think that, hands down, The Young and The Restless has one of the top 5 best opening credits in the history of television period. I could look at these over and over and NEVER get bored!
It took me years to like soaps, but as a kid when my grandparents would watch it, I would listen to this amazing calm theme,
It’s so pretty and romantic
I remember playing the long theme on the radio what a master piece 🙂
I AGREE.
It’s because the score was not created for a soap but for a motion picture
Young and Restless's theme song is unarguably the best in soap opera history.
100000000000000 %
Henry Mancini. Nadia's Theme. But people will just call it The Young and the Restless.
Definitely the best! Love the show
That’s a fact
Barry DeVorzon, actually, but yeah. @@UncoolNegated
Thanks for posting this. The Y&R intro is the most beautiful and haunting music I've ever encountered. As a musician, it evokes such emotion. It sends you on a journey.
no problem when I get the chance I always listen to Nadia’s Theme
The 70's and 80's were hands down the golden era of TV, music and entertainment. This timeless masterpiece opening credit has to be one of the best ever and just re-enforces that. The 1999 theme strayed way too far off and modernized it too much. Thankfully they went back the better original version thereafter.
I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU.
I remember when this first came on in the 70's and I could not wait to see it. You would be surprised at how many men watch this show.👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌
Yes, the 1999 theme sounded like a James Bond film song?!😂
Rest in paradise to the legends that has made Y&R as it is today and made me as a diehard fan of this awesome series:
Jeannie Cooper
Jerry Douglas
Kristoff St. John
among others
Billy Miller
Meg Bennett
Marla Adams
Michelle Thomas
Paul Walker
Jay Bontatibus
Andrea Evans
Jennifer Leak
Roscoe Born
Terrence McNally
Marguerite Ray
Quinn Redeker
Michael Tylo
Terry Lester
Beau Kayzer
Sharon Acker
Brett Hadley
Nick Benedict
Sharon Farrell
Sally Kellerman
Nichelle Nichols
Robert Clary
Diane McBain
Christopher Bennock
Eddie Mekka
& The legends who have made this show
Lee Phillip Bell & William J. Bell
@@machineguy97You forgot Eddie Mekka was in Laverne and Shirley and Paul Walker was in the fast and the furious. The same with Michelle Thomas in Family Matters.
This theme is such a timeless tune ❤
It’s no wonder Mary J. Blige sampled it in her song “No More Drama”
It was so cool how they had the sketches of the characters in the early openings
My mom used to watch this show almost every night when I was 5
This is a great compilation! Being a portrait artist, my favorite is the '84-'88 years of the Sandy Dvore sketches. They're so moody, atmospheric, and with simplicity capture the essence of each character. Plus, we can't forget that Dvore's logo, established then, is still in use today!
I watched almost 40 on off of YNR . My aunt got me hooked in late 70s as a kid .😉
Omg really ! y&r in the 70s was the best era in my opinion
1:28 Melody Thomas Scott as Nikki Reed and Eric Braeden as Victor Newman, 1:46 Terry Lester as Jack Abbott and Jerry Douglas as John Abbott, 1:47 Eileen Davidson as Ashley Abbott, 1:49 Beth Maitland as Traci Abbott, 1:54 Lauralee Bell as Christine Blair, 1:56 Jeanne Cooper as Katherine Chancellor
This is awesome 💯👍🔥❤️!! Past, present, and future coming together..
Tysm
agreed
I love this music . It makes me feel cozy inside .the string section of the young and the restless music, just sounds so warm and cuddly . Does this relate to anyone.
Goosebumps!
Not into soaps but I've heard this theme song all through my childhood all the way to today.
What a timeless tune. Gives you that "im free" feeling.
So happy they decided to go back to the original theme after the short period without it. The music is truly timeless.
agreed
I like the short period without it, that's what makes it diverse just like it's sister show The Bold & Beautiful
Eric Braeden has been in everything since forever ago.
Herr Johannes-Erich Gudegast Von Braeden SHOULD have been in NOTHING as OF forever ago.
May he live forever 💚💜💚💜💚💜💚
He was John Jacob Astor in James Cameron's Titanic
My grandparents soap was "The Young and the Restless". In the 90s, I would rush home from high school and tune into "All My Children". I feel the theme for All My Children and Young and the Restless are fairly iconic themes. You hear them and instantly know the shows they are connected to.
This was not bad at all ; as I watching the theme openings through the 50 years I don't remember the beginning in 1973 since I was only about five but around 1978 and going forward into the 80's and beyond is when I remembered the openings.
Wow! Y&R has been on CBS my whole life and I'm 44 now! I remember my mom and grandmother use to watch this back when I was a little boy in the early 80s and my mom still watches it to this day! Can't believe Victor and Nikki are still on the show, they're such legends!
I absolutely love every single opening of Y&R, from the earlier opening with the sketch drawings to more jazzier sound opening in the late 90s to the 50th year opening starting with the legacy characters like Diane Jenkins and Jack Abbott and ending with Nikki Reed Newman and Victor Newman, I absolutely love it all, fantastic! ❤️🤍🥂
Oh my gosh 😢😢(happy tears)❤❤❤❤
TYATR theme song, IMO is the best soundtrack of all the soaps. So touching. I vividly remember hearing this theme as a kid in the 70s while my mom watched.
I was born in 1974 myself so I like the 1974 intro to The Young And The Restless.
As a kid, I never really cares for the show itself, or at least the storyline; but what I do remember, is the beautiful theme song (including the jazz version, 92 baby here), as well as just how beautiful all of their houses looked.
(I SOOOO wanted to live in one of their houses!!)
Truly, an outstanding peice of music, Nadias theme. The extended, full theme is magical.
Got hooked on YR when I was in High School and would come home and watch after weight lifting in the mornings during the summer. Fun to watch the drama while 'pumped up'!
The intro from 2003-2012 pulls me back to that time, to where I lived, what I was doing. During bouts of unemployment, and waiting to get a call for an interview or a temp job but almost glad that I didn't have any work to stay home and indulge myself in this show! I was also young (kind of) and restless (well, mostly lazy lol). I just enjoyed this time with my husband and my dog, where we lived. Great memories.
I’ve only been watching Y&R for almost two months now and I must say that the show and it’s opening credits wouldn’t be the same without any of it’s beloved characters, especially Victor Newman, Nikki Newman and Jack Abbott.
My grand mother loved thid show
.I love you granny
The Young and the Restless is best theme song💯
Eric Braeden - 44 years on a single soap opera...wow
it paid the bills i recon.
THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS made it through for 50 years and still going strong.
Along with the daytime game show juggernaut THE PRICE IS RIGHT and LMAD make CBS the undisputed CHAMPION in daytime programming.
NOBODY can beat CBS in daytime programming--NOBODY!
Melody Thomas Scott is beautiful!
I remember the 2003-2012 one, my grandma always liked to watch this
Shame this series never really took off in the UK as it is a quality daytime soap. The only "era" I saw was between 1987 and 1990 on Sky One, which is the set of titles with the roman type face and semi-animated head shots. I remember Michael Damien (?), who was a singer being prominent in these episodes. Sky said it was too expensive to buy any more episodes! It changed to lesser known TV channels and sadly hasnt aired here for nearly 15 years. It is the opening and theme tune that attracted me to this series. I love it. And I still listen to it occasionally on here. Happy 50th Anniversary Y&R from the UK!
Happy 50th anniversary Y&R🥲💐🎉
Thanks for putting it together. Very fun and a whole lot of memories in minutes that took decades to make.
I love this a lot
😢
Christel Khalil’s first appearance in 2002 called The Young and the Restless. She played Lily Winters Ashby in The Young and the Restless.
The 2000's slayed it!🔥🔥🔥
IKR!It always had a prime time/Knots Landingish feel
My mom (rip mom) usecto watch Y&R sunce day one. I was a young whipper snapper back then. (54 now), i remember all of these theme sings. Beings back great memories sitting with my mom watching this great series. Miss her 😢
Oh I love the remixed one so much cause I was a kid during it. My Mom Mom watched it every day when I stayed with her over the Summer. RIP Mom Mom !!!
i am 38 and i get goosebumps still like when i was a kid watching it with grandma
This is the only soap opera that kept the same theme song for 50 years!
your right except the years 1999-2003
Days has, too
@@tiafliesyou’re right
I believe days of our lives has never changed.
@@marcviau6002 they haven’t except for updating the music and the man who says the iconic phrase but that is about it.
I want to buy a piano and learn how to play this amazing theme.
yes as you should it is an amazing theme and there are a lot of tutorials on youtube on how to play the theme
Had to watch this cause my great grandmother watched me as a young child around lunch time daily.
hearing this when i was a kid was the reminder that the tv was no longer mine and it was my moms time 😭😭
Melody Thomas Scott is unbelievably beautiful.
I always liked Y&R’s theme song and their opening credits- I still do!
My grandma watches this every day😅
Mr Eric turned 83 yesterday April 3rd 2024
My grandma has watched this since day 1. I always remember hearing this intro growing up haha
I can only imagine what will happen to this show when Victor dies
This has been my mother's soap ever since she came to Canada in the late '70s. I've always thought the theme song was the classiest out of the soaps i've ever seen (though I will say Santa Barbara's theme is my all-time favorite) Anyways, thanks for posting this evolution of the opening theme.
Of course no problem at all!!
The most iconic soap opera opening sequence. But just imagine being invested in a show for over 50 yrs. Insane!!!!
it is crazy to think about how long this show has been on air. But the cast and crew are all so dedicated and really love putting out shows. But we are the reason that they have been doing this for 50 years!
Y&R actually had a live orchestra pit on set in the earlier years, that’s why their scores from the early 70’s were so beautiful and by the time the 80’s came they pretty much-recorded their background scores.
I started watching The Young And The Restless in 2012 when Amelia Heinle played Victoria Newman.
This was my moms favorite show she would never miss an episode.
The way Nikki slid into the final montage at the 3:03 mark...brilliant!
"Forever Ago" I like that terminology! Awesome. I do remember seeing Eric Braden in a (3) Part "GUNSMOKE"
I remember my gradeschool years in the mid/late 70s, and our class would watch those life-lessons short films and their introduction theme music had to be influenced by TY&tR theme.
I live in Europe, in Itally this show was called "Febbre d'amore"= Fever of Love. And in germany it was called "Schatten der Leidenschaft"= Shadows of desire/ Shadows of passion :-) ;-)
cool i didn’t now that ty
in France it's called "les feux de l'amour" = The fire of love
I love it❤
This Music is from 1971 Movie Bless The Beast and Children. It is called “Cotton’s Dream” written by Barry De Vorzon and Perry Boykin Jr. Then in 1976 …The Summer Olympics..It turned into Nadia’s Theme for Nadia Comaneci. Which became a huge hit..and everyone recorded their own version of Cotton’s Dream..including Henry Mancini.
This is the Original Incidental Music for Bless the Beast and Children…th-cam.com/video/h_Kc2NlFMHo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=POWh6vGCt6_PLM-1
My aunt was a soap opera junkie. The Young and The Restless was her favorite.
What happened to get in this up my mom was watching all the time when I was a young boy and I obviously don't watch soap operas most males don't but I would give almost anything to watch all these episodes from the beginning to the end
All of our childhood into one theme song ❤
Miss you
aw ty just waiting for them to give some new credit poses
Thank you folks
It is a fun song to play ❤
When the theme song would play I would turn to my head towards my mom all dramatic like them
Es sind Erinnerungen vom Kindheit 😊
My great great grandma always watched this but she died in March of 2008 at 103 years old
Wow this Theme is Always So Calming to me despite Invoking a Set of Traumatic Memories for me. Which was when o was a Kid and had to make regular visits to my Family Doctor’s Office in some Government Building. Oh yeah I could Remember it like I’ve just been there I could Still Remember walking on to the nearest elevators. And taking it it up to the Fifth Floor and Getting Off and making our ways along a Long and Quite aside from that Dreaded Typewriter and Empty Hallway to the Doctor’s Office.
And I would know when we’re getting close as the closer we got the Loader that Dreaded Typewriter Became. And when we entered it wasn’t better and for some reason The Young And The Restless Both Invoked that memory and at the same time Calmness. Like I’ve just said I don’t know how I’ve connected those two.
But a little bit of side note I just wished they would stop casting kids that give off that Disney Sitcom Vibe to them. But the Happy News is I’m so Glade that I was able to Watch The Young And The Restless’s 50th Anniversary Special Series of episodes. To which by the way almost Feels like a Completely Deferent Show. In Particular when it came to the Red Carpet Scenes, to which Feels like a series of Entertainment News Segments. Along with the characters that are in the scenes.
Hands downs 80s and 90s were the best with Jill & Catherine and Jack a& Victor Sheila & Lauren conflicts and then David Kimble......
1988-1991 🔥
It was aired on the defunct BBC-2 here in the Philippines.
I loved it when they would show the opening of Y and R ,have a short pause and then show the sponsor(s) before the episode happens.Now it usually has a sponsor on the first ad after part of it happens.Any chance they could do the show like they used to?
Legendary figure skater Tara Lipinski was a castmember on this show for a brief period.
WoW! Thank you.
no problem! 😄
I’m a year younger than Amelia Heinle.
They should do something similar to General Hospital 50th Anniversary Opening.
that would have been good
@@theyoungandtherestlessSuperfan General Hospital is going to hit 60.
@@johnemery285 I wish GH get a new opening like Y&R did.
Anybody else think this music would make a good bridal theme?
yes it would omg ur a Genius
@@theyoungandtherestlessSuperfan Thank you. I try lol
Good song.
Nadia’s theme is iconic
*Nostalgia*
Vim aqui por causa do Julius.
Ele está com gota e está vendo essa novela 😊
Jovens e inquietos kkkk
I did the same video about 5 months ago and yours was 4 months ago and has more views wow
Pai do Cris ama essa novela
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Mary J. Bilge sampled this for her song "No More Drama."
1999-2003 so outwardly different and a definite risk for the creative team. By far my favorite .
I'm sorry but why did they have to change the theme 99-03 huh
Right?! We see how well that one worked out because they changed it back hahaha
Vocals to the opening theme originally in the movie "Bless The Beasts and Children" th-cam.com/video/y7iEBL4VaPE/w-d-xo.html
I wish for the 50th anniversary they had gone back to using drawings in the opening.
I wish the 50th anniversary opening had them in drawing and then it would fade to them posing
Fredric is probably saying good grief.
Finally! Black peoples in the 90s!
I noticed they only did that after NBC aired *Generations* for two years.
The only time they differ from the iconic Botkin/De Vorizon arrangement was the 1999 red carpet opening, before going back to tried and true (the 1984 remix of it however) ever since. Otherwise they stuck with the Cotton's Dream/Nadia's Theme while so many others changed their themes over the years.
Gone on longer than the Simpsons