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"Nadia's Theme"
Posted in "Nadia's Theme" on Feb 14, 2008 at 9:22 AM
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadia%27s_Theme




"Nadia's Theme" is a piece of music composed by Barry De Vorzon and Perry Botkin, Jr. that currently serves as the theme music to the American television soap opera The Young and the Restless.



The melody, originally titled "Cotton's Dream", was written by De Vorzon and Botkin as incidental music for the 1971 theatrical film Bless the Beasts and Children. Two years later, Botkin wrote a rearranged version of the piece for The Young and the Restless; the show debuted on March 26, 1973. The melody was later renamed "Nadia's Theme" after the ABC television network lent the music for Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci's performance during the 1976 Summer Olympics; but Nadia never performed her routines using this piece of music. Instead, she used a piano arrangement of a medley of the songs "Yes Sir, That's My Baby" and "Jump in the Line" for their floor exercises.



About one month after the 1976 Olympics, the song was released as a single by A&M Records, with its B-side containing an instrumental of De Vorzon's song "Down the Line". It soared up to number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart by December of 1976, in part because of its association with Comaneci. However, A&M Records failed to credit De Vorzon as the co-writer on the first pressings of the single; he successfully sued the record label for $241,000 USD. The single has never been released on CD.



Other versions of "Nadia's Theme" have been recorded, including easy listening renditions by such artists as Ronnie Aldrich, Ray Conniff, Ferrante & Teicher, and James Galway; a semi-rock version by The Ventures; and David Hasselhoff's vocal rendition for his 1997 album Lovin' Feelings.



The main focus here was the Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci, though. Without her, I don't think the song would have existed. She should take all the credit, don't you think?
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Dec 25th, 2:35am
hello hi_tek. i love this music.
can you please send this to me?
my email add is junnaluan@yahoo.com.ph
thanks and god bless.

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