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!
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.
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.
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❤❤❤❤
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.
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!
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!!)
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!
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'!
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 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.
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.
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.
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 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! ❤️🤍🥂
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 😢
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.
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.
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.
3:12 1999-2003 They were really trying to market themselves to the success of The Bold and the Beautiful, which was hugely popular. Y&R had a reputation for being more of a slow burn that presented itself as a bit “high brow.” The Bold and the Beautiful was more hot, spicy, and fun. B&B was easier for casual viewers to understand and appeared to people just looking for a short escape rather than diving into a novel. B&B reminded me more of the telenovela style and it often embraced how ridiculous it was.
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!
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?
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
They need to update the credits soon, cause I am not feeling it. It's too dark themed. I think it would be good to go back to the late 80s early 90s white theme again, with LOTS of vaseline on the lens because the hi-def cameras they use today are not flattering to anyone. That winter white background was giving everything, and the wind machine just elevated it.
I know the person in the dress walking in the ones from 2003-2022 is Phyllis, but who are the two people walking in the 50th anniversary intro at the beginning Edit: apparently it’s not actually Phyllis. My mom didn’t know lol
Im turning into my mother. She used to kick me and my brother's out of the house all days to eatch this. Now at 34, i wanna know why this show is wo hype after 40 years!? Edit: I remember some of these intros as a kid/early teen 😂
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.
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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
All the opening credits of Y&R is outstanding. I'm glad it add a new one. Happy 50th Anniversary Y&R.
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.👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌
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
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
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.
Eric Braeden - 44 years on a single soap opera...wow
it paid the bills i recon.
Eric Braeden has been in everything since forever ago.
Herr Johannes-Erich Gudegast Von Braeden SHOULD have been in NOTHING as OF forever ago.
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.
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.
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 awesome 💯👍🔥❤️!! Past, present, and future coming together..
Tysm
agreed
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!
Truly, an outstanding peice of music, Nadias theme. The extended, full theme is magical.
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!!)
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!
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'!
My mom used to watch this show almost every night when I was 5
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
I can only imagine what will happen to this show when Victor dies
I was born in 1974 myself so I like the 1974 intro to The Young And The Restless.
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 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.
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.
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.
Goosebumps!
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
The 2000's slayed it!🔥🔥🔥
IKR!It always had a prime time/Knots Landingish feel
Christel Khalil’s first appearance in 2002 called The Young and the Restless. She played Lily Winters Ashby in The Young and the Restless.
This was my moms favorite show she would never miss an episode.
Thanks for putting it together. Very fun and a whole lot of memories in minutes that took decades to make.
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! ❤️🤍🥂
Happy 50th anniversary Y&R🥲💐🎉
"Forever Ago" I like that terminology! Awesome. I do remember seeing Eric Braden in a (3) Part "GUNSMOKE"
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 😢
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.
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!!
I always liked Y&R’s theme song and their opening credits- I still do!
Anybody else think this music would make a good bridal theme?
yes it would omg ur a Genius
@@theyoungandtherestlessSuperfan Thank you. I try lol
My grandma has watched this since day 1. I always remember hearing this intro growing up haha
i am 38 and i get goosebumps still like when i was a kid watching it with grandma
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.
Had to watch this cause my great grandmother watched me as a young child around lunch time daily.
I started watching The Young And The Restless in 2012 when Amelia Heinle played Victoria Newman.
My aunt was a soap opera junkie. The Young and The Restless was her favorite.
My grandma watches this every day😅
Melody Thomas Scott is beautiful!
Miss you
aw ty just waiting for them to give some new credit poses
Thank you folks
Hands downs 80s and 90s were the best with Jill & Catherine and Jack a& Victor Sheila & Lauren conflicts and then David Kimble......
I love this a lot
😢
Mary J. Bilge sampled this for her song "No More Drama."
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.
3:12 1999-2003 They were really trying to market themselves to the success of The Bold and the Beautiful, which was hugely popular. Y&R had a reputation for being more of a slow burn that presented itself as a bit “high brow.” The Bold and the Beautiful was more hot, spicy, and fun. B&B was easier for casual viewers to understand and appeared to people just looking for a short escape rather than diving into a novel. B&B reminded me more of the telenovela style and it often embraced how ridiculous it was.
Melody Thomas Scott is unbelievably beautiful.
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!
All of our childhood into one theme song ❤
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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?
Legendary figure skater Tara Lipinski was a castmember on this show for a brief period.
I love it❤
My great great grandma always watched this but she died in March of 2008 at 103 years old
Vim aqui por causa do Julius.
Ele está com gota e está vendo essa novela 😊
Jovens e inquietos kkkk
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
Es sind Erinnerungen vom Kindheit 😊
An I the only one who thinks that Don Diamont got better looking as he got older?
1988-1991 🔥
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
Gone on longer than the Simpsons
I did the same video about 5 months ago and yours was 4 months ago and has more views wow
WoW! Thank you.
no problem! 😄
Good song.
Nadia’s theme is iconic
It’s not the same without Catherine 😭 she made the show
FACTS
Fredric is probably saying good grief.
President Ford’s son was hot.
They need to update the credits soon, cause I am not feeling it. It's too dark themed. I think it would be good to go back to the late 80s early 90s white theme again, with LOTS of vaseline on the lens because the hi-def cameras they use today are not flattering to anyone. That winter white background was giving everything, and the wind machine just elevated it.
Nicolas Grew 10 years over night
Who’s the guy who took his shirt off?🥰🥰
50th anniversary opening is hidious …
Bells 🔔 Genius Daytime Soap creators YNR BNB
My mom loves this show she watch it for ever and she died 2020 from bone cancer
Sorry to hear that, I hope my channel bring some more memories for you and your mom to ❤️
Sorry to hear that, I hope my channel bring some more memories for you and your mom to ❤️
Thanks
I know the person in the dress walking in the ones from 2003-2022 is Phyllis, but who are the two people walking in the 50th anniversary intro at the beginning
Edit: apparently it’s not actually Phyllis. My mom didn’t know lol
@phackfanforever interesting
4:26
Idc Y&R has the best intros out of all the soap operas and I don’t even watch soap operas. B&B comes in at a close 2nd though.
Am I the only one that wants to know who did the sketches? I think they look great.
Sandy Dvore did the original sketches.
Vocals to the opening theme originally in the movie "Bless The Beasts and Children" th-cam.com/video/y7iEBL4VaPE/w-d-xo.html
I AM GOD THE LIVING APOCALYPSE PITY TO THE NATION APOCALYPSE FOREVER PLAYBOY JR YOUR GOING TO REMEMBER ME
Im turning into my mother. She used to kick me and my brother's out of the house all days to eatch this. Now at 34, i wanna know why this show is wo hype after 40 years!?
Edit: I remember some of these intros as a kid/early teen 😂
What ? This show is still running?
yes it has been for 51 years in March
Ruined so many marriages
CBS tv.
🌹❤️🩹👍🔎
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.
4:25
The Young and the Restless is best theme song💯
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
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
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!