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Thursday, October 06, 2016

List of 10 : Ten Great Former Soap Opera Themes or Intros

Soaps    List of 10 

   We have looked at a lot of Soaps here on Joshuaonline , this time we thought we do a rarity for this site a List.  Since the list  has the word great  in it, that means it's  mostly subjective  so your results may very in agreement. Though if you have a favorite you can tell us .  For this list  we have decided to do soaps that are no longer running , and American Soaps.  We may do later lists of UK soap intros and of ones that are still running. We may have included one primetime , American soap in here too because they are rarer and you'll see.   Let's get started.

10. Dark Shadows   

We've written about this soap before , it's the most interesting thing . The soap is about vampires and other supernatural things  so it's theme really fits , it has the  dark haunting feel to it. I can compare the  sound it makes to ghosts. It does have a feel to it that makes it stand out. 



9. Passions 

   For a Soap that did it's own thing  and could get dark  even supernatural ...the theme song really could throw you off.    The theme song is called  "Breathe" By  Jane French , it is really a great theme and deserved that daytime Emmy.

   here is the full theme 

8.  All  My Children  (Early 90's theme) 

This one was a hard one because this show has a lot of Themes that I love , but in the frame of this top ten list this is the one that goes into the list.  The Drum and piano bring into the theme then the sax takes care of the rest. I love the mixture it fit All My Children Well.


7. Guiding Light  (1975 theme/intro ) 

    This one is light and simple , it feels like  a summer afternoon which is something  of an interesting affect for a  a Theme song. The Intro around this time is short and sweet. It's the sun coming  through some tree leaves and branches.
 
    I chose the closing for the featured video because it's longer  , you can see the intro here .

6.As The World Turns (1990's Theme) 

    As The World Turns  themes seemed to be the classiest themes I've heard in a soap  , this was a harder choice but I feel the 1990's theme has a simpleness to it ,yet a grandeur which is a lot to say for a soap theme. It's not long  in the intro but it does it's job and feels so well done. 
      
     That it's I am calling that number.  I chose the ending credits, glad I found one without the annoying voice over ,gosh networks shut up sometimes.   Here is an intro from the same period 
    

5.Ryan's Hope

   This is  a soap we have covered in a Lookback .   "Ryan's Hope" Theme is a happy  and optimistic sounding theme it may  even through you off  from the what comes after it ,which could be happy or not. The theme really captures you into the show.
  As the note the theme didn't change really through the show's history , but the opens did the open I picked was from 1980 and even the images of New York seem happy and optimistic it fits the music well.

                           

4. The Edge of  Night 

        We have covered this soap before  in a lookback , but theme , well the more famous theme is interesting one. It has a spooky haunting sound with an ominous feel too it.  For a crime and mystery soap the theme fits very well.   
   
                           For a bonus here is the theme with words to it .     If I were to  put this seperate it would be on this list as it's own the Jazzy disco version is amazing. Here 

3.  Sunset Beach (First theme) 

      We've written about Sunset Beach here before . It's theme is amazing , it has a great melodrama sound . It really gets you ready for the soap , the intro itself doesn't do much  just showing you the faces of who is on the show , so the music really brings the flare.
 
                      

2.   One Life To Live  (Mid 80's theme) 

     This one is also my favorite  themes of One Life to  Live , the music is upbeat and lively (maybe the pun was intended) It's a catchy one , It gets stuck in my head where it can at any point randomly just  pop in my head and I hum it.

                             
               Also the closing credits  of course have more you listen to that here 

Now there is more after the Jump including my  number 1 pick.

Monday, April 29, 2013

Welcome back All My Children and One Life to live


SOAPS   TOLN   

     Here at Joshuaonline we've been writing posts about news of soaps being canceled and finales coming soon, we did for "One Life to Live" in January 2012  , we did for "All My Children" in September 2011  .   Soaps being canceled was a yearly report  from 2007-2011 pretty much as daytime  is being transfused into talk shows and other cheap (cost)  programming . "All My Children" and "One Life to Live" were also reported to be moving online back in 2011,though that seemed lost by mid-2012 we did get the official announcement .

      So now today April 29th 2013, they are  both back  now online.
     Here's how you can watch it    , on Hulu  you can watch on any  computer  here (All My Children) , (One Life To Live)  . If you have Hulu Plus you can watch on a mobile device  , and on a Roku ®  box .

You can watch the full episodes after the jump , they are 30 minutes now

Friday, January 25, 2013

All My Children and One life to live coming spring

All My Children One Life to Live Soaps

       Here at Joshuaonline we've been keeping track of  'One Life to live' and 'All My Children' as you know it's returning online but now have more information. 
  Prospect park , the group who bought the rights to the soaps , have announced that Hulu and I-Tunes as well as their own  The Online Network will also  have  the programs in their libraries.  The time has been cut  30 minutes but still  daily instead of 1 hour as they were on TV ( but maybe less commercials and worries about the news cutting them off) , the date is unknown  all we know as of this writing is that it will be Spring (so anytime before June).
We'll keep you updated  as always.  





Related: 
 Who's returning to "All My Children" and "One life to live"?    (ew.com) 

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

3 TV Hotlist stories you may want to know for 1/22/2012

Straight Forward  ON THE TV


One Life to Live    1.    Here at Joshuaonline we have been keeping track of what's happening to the soaps  "One Life to Live" and "All My Children.   The fact they are coming back  as online shows  but who's returning to them.  EW.com has the details  of who so far is returning.
 Click here to read more    
Joshuaonline will of course update you when we find out  about the soaps.

Apartment 23  2.  "Don't Trust the B--- in Apt 23"  has been removed from ABC's primetime line up the comedy has been getting some low ratings , but  is the show canceled?  Well that ABC has not said yet.
You can read more here from EW.com 
And for now it will be replaced by a second episode of "Happy Endings" on ABC


3.  "The Following" Fox's new drama premiered last night  and did pretty well.
 read more here from the Huffington Post  
"The Following" airs Mondays 9/8c on FOX


Monday, January 07, 2013

One more life to Live





 
  Last year, around this time here at Joshuaonline , the countdown to the end of "One Life to Live" was being covered.  One thing that came out on the story of the ABC soaps "All My Children" and "One Life to Live"  was these programs were moving to online. That hit a stalemate , but  last month it was reported that there would be a 2nd chance.   Now today it's official  "One life to Live" and "All My Children"  Read more about that here 
And stay tuned here will be more updates on this.  

Soaps  

   Written By Skyler
 

Friday, September 23, 2011

Good Bye "All My Children'

TV Daytime  All MyChildren 1971-2011  
  Now  another soap hits the dust and another nail in the  coffin in what daytime television used to be.  Yes soaps have quickly been killed of network television since 2007.
NBC expanded the "Today Show" for a fourth hour to create a talk but to make local stations happy they ended "Passions". In 2009 CBS ended "Guiding Light" after over 70 years and replaced it with a new version of "Let's make a deal" at least it wasn't a talk show. In 2010 CBS ended "As the World Turns" and replaced it with a talk show called "The Talk" (real creative CBS). Let's admit the networks find it cheaper to make a talk show or a game show than a soap, plus soaps may have began repeating plot lines but I think that the soap was  a great treasuere to our TV sets.  A  TV series that come on every weekday and continuing a plot from the day before.  You didn't get that in prime time , without waiting a week. ABC will replace "All My Children"  before it had a  chance to turn 42. How many other shows can you say lasted 40 years or even 70 , except for news shows and some talks shows, and the "Price is right".
 But to make this short we say good bye to "All My Children". And maybe your second life online could make you go on longer.

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

{Poll] will you miss all my children ?

POll 

All my children ends in 3 days

Daytime  All My Children 1970-2001  Soaps  ABC 
  As "All My Children" we look back at the opens of the show , we showed the first yesterday.

(video: youtube)
more opens after the jump

Monday, September 19, 2011

All mychildren ends in 4 days

Soaps  All my children 1970-2011  ABC 


We say good by to  "All mychildren this week" 
 so here's a look at the first intro from the 1970's 


Video after the jump