Is that Organ Music I Hear?

[brettsomers]

Valiant Lady!?! The Brighter Day?!?

 

[Unimatic1140]

Valiant Lady!?! The Brighter Day?!?, yes both TV soaps in the 50's. Valiant Lady is particularly fun and overacted, I have to post that one too.

 

[abcomatic]

I wonder if copies of the music that is played on the Hammond for the shows are avaliable or reprinted? I would love to play this on the organ. What fun. Gary

 

[geoffdelp]

Robert ... thanks for sharing. These are great and they bring A LOT of wonderful memories!! My Mom was a Search for Tomorrow and Guiding Light fan. Her time in the living at noon was sacred and she was "not to be disturbed"!! She still watches certain "soapies" every day; I'm not even sure what she watches any more. She says they are "full of sex"; but just try to turn off the TV on her or disturb her with a phone call!!

I was the baby of the family and before I started kindergarten in the afternoon, I was Mom's shadow; especially on washday Mondays! Down we would go into the basement and use the Maytag with the suds saver ... clunk!! The smell of Tide (or Oxydol) and Downy ... mmmmm ... nothing like it!!

 

[brettsomers]

soaps

as a child, i was DEVOTED to The Yound and the Restless. i knew all the characters, it helped greatly that Y&R came on right after The Price is Right (i remember when Bob was a Brunette!). Cricket, Danny, Nina, Mrs Chancellor, Esther, i could go on and on. and the show wasnt complete unless i was able to watch from the beginning, and see the charcoal portraits of the charachters and hear the fabulous, timeless, moving, emotive opening theme (nadias theme?). David

 

[Unimatic1140]

Here is another one, just a sick and silly as the others. Its Valiant Lady from 1955. This was a short run CBS soap (1953-1957). It's sponsered by General Mills and we even get to see Betty Crocker, who looks shall we say a bit "tough" to me? Could Betty have been on of us? LOL.

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[jmirawm]

Scheduling...............

In college, there was a group of about 20 of us, we would arrange our class schedule around *Days of Our Lives* and *Another World*. After lunch in the campus center we would all gather around the TV and be there until our afternoon classes began. Circa 1980.

 

[brettsomers]

The acting on Valiant Lady is... remarkable. i did like finally seeing the REAL Betty Crocker, she speaks so convincingly on camera, and she seems so friendly. HA!! to think people actually thought she was a real person, and the GALL of General Mills to try to fool the public! i AM curious about what will happen to the unfortunate new mother and baby... they make the birth sound so mysterious and tragic, without being specific.

 

[Unimatic1140]

i AM curious about what will happen to the unfortunate new mother and baby... they make the birth sound so mysterious and tragic, without being specific.

That's how these soaps suck you in and get you hooked like a drug! Too bad there are only a few surviving examples left of these fun shows.

 

[drmitch]

Thanks Robert these are fun. I remember my folks watching these and never dreamed any of them still existed!

 

[hoover1060]

Man those were the days!

When $25,000 paid off your mortgage AND sent 4 kids to college....
Love these Robert, more please!

 

[abcomatic]

I can't wait for another episode! Uni, do you have an episode from the 50's of 'As the World Turns?' I loved the theme song from that and can still hum it a bit. "And now, a word from our sponsor." bye for now, Gary