Henry Mancini - Nadia's Theme

[@burakarslan1527]

So many people like me watched Young and Restless with grandmas. Rest in peace dear granny. Love you forever...

[@anitavallee994]

❤️

[@JJ-um5ec]

Yep

[@timbowers4250]

This music makes me feel 4 years old again

[@cleusahstevanato6141]

Volta ao passado 15's

[@yellowfin1962]

Originally titled Cotton’s dream!

[@cheskybaba4864]

My girlfriend recorded this song for me on a tape player. When she left me for another, I would play this over and over getting all choked up. She was the love of my life up to that point. When I Ieft to start a new life , literally in a new country, I exited the plane playing the song one final time. As I walked across that hot tarmac to the airport entrance, the song played out in my walkman. The door's parted open, like a giant welcoming embrace to walk into. The song ended, the last cord faded off and right before me was a waste receptacle. I popped open the cassette player , took out the tape and dropped it in. The pain was no more. Two months later, I met my wife to be. This song always carries me back to my first love.

[@Brinster48]

Sometimes things don't workout but for the right reason, I'm glad you've found your peace and the right lady.

[@rawmoonferry]

There's always more asses than stars.

[@khem316]

Nice story and so good for you!!

[@glendadrake6103]

Wow! Yours is such a heart touching experience, as I read your story with the music in the background. You are quite eloquent with the way you express yourself. Best wishes for your continued happiness.

[@jayneholdsworth5608]

You never forget that special person even if you want to don't feel guilty memories are precious and oh so nice

[@justanadams9430]

I'm crying because I miss my Grandma. Every time I here this song I think of her. January 27th, 2022 was the day she went bye bye. I just wish I could see her one more time.

[@judyrichards1966]

You will. You will see her again. For real

[@lawrencefriesen1872]

The lesson here? Take EVERY moment to visit your elders. Some day, they will be gone. And you will have many cherished memories...

[@Barratop-r6g]

​@@judyrichards1966sim! Haverá uma ressurreição e quem prometeu tem todo poder para cumprir no tempo certo

[@vulcanhammer]

You will indeed see her one more time, and eternity after that

[@Slowpaws1389]

This played on the radio as my grandmother died from cancer at home

[@LorriePenfield]

I was a medical student years ago about 1983, when I was in the hospital in the middle of the night in Syracuse. I heard a young man crying while I walked down the hall, and this music was playing. I found his room, and it was a handsome young college football player who had testicular cancer, and he was vomiting from the chemotherapy. He was threatening to stop the treatment because he couldn't take the vomiting. So I ordered him some nausea medicine, and I held his hand while the chemo was going in. I told him a story about my grandmother, who rode the orphan train from NYC to Nebraska in 1909. He finally fell asleep peacefully. Now ,after all these years, when I hear this, I think of Nadia, but also that brave young man, and this beautiful event in my life.

[@JojoR1963]

Beautiful story

[@tommytoan]

did he die?

[@MaryCrouse-r3t]

Thanm you Thank you for the beautiful story. God. Bless

[@minaleyrits9240]

Yes, doctor… music could bring us back the memories of the past… Music is the language of the soul.💯👍

[@pack99grad]

1974. I was 4 years old. Begged my mom to buy this record. She bought me the 45 single. I would listen to it and cry. She thought there was something wrong me. No idea why this song has always touched me to this day.

[@NP-ux9xg]

your poor mother. Imagine having a child of that age that cried at music. I hope you apologized once you gto older.

[@salmonella4u]

@@NP-ux9xg 😜Then when Pack Man got older and started listening to AC/DC, his mother decided, "Now, THAT's my kid!" no just kidding.

[@salmonella4u]

For the same reason songs like "Moon River" or "Time to Remember"(or whatever the title was), always made me want to cry. Because the ones like us are generally, kind, sensitive, loving, sentimental and the kind of people that most others want to be associated with. People are so cold today.

[@jameskrebs2025]

Similar situation for me. This is one of those songs that plays in my head every once in a while. It really makes me long for those days of my youth, but it also feels like this is the song I want in my ears as I take my last breath.

[@Leomonaaade]

Same

[@issystar96]

This is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard in my life

[@trackrunner11]

I agree Such beauty. It is one example of how music can transform and nurish the soul. It is truly one reason I believe man is so capable of greatness.

[@markanddanielsmom]

Truly is

[@SuperDetroit9]

@issystar96;THE most beautiful I've ever heard,which is why I'm going to get it on disc today and listen to it indefinitely!!!

[@issystar96]

@@SuperDetroit9 I played it on the piano last night ❤

[@SuperDetroit9]

@@issystar96 ;cool!!

[@jamiemcnay]

I was a young boy when I watched Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci score her perfect 10 on the uneven bars during the 1976 Olympics. This music, her performance and humility set the stage for a very nostalgic and romantic experience. Thank you for the walk down memory lane.

[@jimdandy8996]

You left out the part about the National Geographic magazines and the women's underwear catalogues.

[@1940limited]

Today a man who identifies as a woman would be doing it!

[@markdavis3629]

@@jimdandy8996 Your mind is a rancid pit.

[@janetlawson4482]

I was watching, I was 9.

[@tedjones2505]

​@@jimdandy8996 I hope not. She was 13

[@mecaringal]

Happy 50th Anniversary Young and Restless ❤

[@armaniwalker3452]

Got a head.rush.of memories just hearing this. My mom was Alive last time l heard this in the 70s. Thanks for the wonderful memories

[@martziano619]

Nostalgia. I'm proud to be Romanian, Nadia is truly a legend.

[@joacoanleu1784]

Viva Rumanía 🇷🇴👏🏻

[@shane-irish]

With the heart breaking smile

[@rohanaabdullah7935]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@Omodollars]

❤

[@GeorgeSemel]

Romania is a stand up Nation and People!

[@jojo-xu4iz]

One of the most recognizable tunes ever.

[@kmoore5215]

This and the price is right

[@themanofsteel6520]

Henry Mancini is the very definition of grace and elegance. His talent is needed in music today.

[@jmscressey]

I couldn't agree more

[@lizdevich7192]

Henry Mancini is one of the greatest pianists ever. I love his accomplishments!

[@curcumin417]

"Nadia's Theme", originally titled "Cotton's Dream", is a piece of music composed by Barry De Vorzon and Perry Botkin Jr. in 1971. It was originally used as incidental music for the 1971 film Bless the Beasts and Children, and is better known as the theme music to the television soap opera The Young and the Restless since the series premiered in 1973. "Cotton's Dream" was renamed "Nadia's Theme" after it became associated with Olympic gymnast Nadia Comăneci during and after the 1976 Summer Olympics - Wiki entry

[@MahaAdel71]

Indeed yes

[@TWHISPERER]

He is a great songwriter and composer but he didn't write this song though

[@PhilMoskowitz]

Yep. This is not Mancini.

[@pb12661]

@@PhilMoskowitz this is his arrangement of the song. so, yes, it is him playing! the op never said he wrote the song just that they enjoyed his piano accompaniments. He also, did not write but did arrange the classic love theme "A Time for Us" from Romeo and Juliet. This and that song are the definitive versions. IMO HIs songwriting credits include Moon River, Peter Gunn theme, Baby Elephant walk, Days of Wine and Roses, etc. The guy was a genius musician.

[@SaxonC]

Every time I hear this theme it brings me back to when I was a kid in the 70’s and watching The Young and the Restless on CBS with my beautiful grandmother

[@SteveEcksteinDouglasDrive]

MY DEAR BRONX "MADEAR" GRANDMA< IN HER SPACIOUS BROWNSTONE< ALONE SINCE 1950/51(PASSING OF HER HUSBAND), PARTIAL " SHADOW SIGHT " IN ONE EYE< BLIND IN THE OTHER> HER T.V. TURNED WAY UP< LISTENING TO HER FAV SOAPS< ESPECIALLY Y & R. GOING ABOUT HER DAILY LIFE"S WORK: BAKING< CLEANING< VISITING " HILDA"( HER NEXT DOOR BFF> SOMETIMES< SITTING DOWN AT THE BLACK BABY GRAND< PLAYING BROADWAY SHOW TUNES BY HEART.( RARELY< I WOULD HAVE THE COURAGE TO SIT AT THIS "MONSTER" & PLAY A FEW NOTES< TRYING TO BE SOFT IS DIFFICULT ON THIS PIANO>NEVER ABLE TO PLAY AT "MADEAR's OR MY MOM's LEVEL(MY LEFT HAND HAD A MIND OF IT's OWN.

[@robertjwilliams3532]

I can go back further. It takes me back to the late 40's early 50's a softer, simpler, more comfortable time.

[@cut1986]

Always made me feel better when I was home sick from school. Not sure why.

[@juanavila3245]

YOU ARE NICE PERSON,,WHO REMEMBERS GRANDMA..

[@michaeleasler5249]

Ditto - It's like a time machine to when I watched this soap and Jill Abbott.

[@Markie_Fine]

What absolutely beautiful comments to read while listening to such absolutely beautiful music. Humans are amazing 😊❤❤❤❤😊

[@rebeccachavez2318]

I can't play this song without thinking of Naida Comaneci. 💗

[@lovelygeishakonichiwa7730]

Yeah they changed the original title of the song and named it after her ❤

[@rebeccachavez2318]

@@lovelygeishakonichiwa7730 I love the song more because of its title.

[@lovelygeishakonichiwa7730]

I agree.

[@issystar96]

My daughter is Nadia also ❤

[@dan711g]

💗

[@christiandelorde5887]

This song is hauntingly beautiful. It tugs at your heart, pulling on your soul. The deep yearning of the romantic.

[@santacollins9276]

💌

[@mariehalsey8892]

Hauntingly beautiful.....100%

[@catherinetimmerman9107]

EXACTLY!!! I was just thinking that same thing!

[@Disneyfan82]

Sad enough to make anyone want to cry.

[@jrichard88]

It's crazy how this song can take me back in time to my great-grandfather's house, and vividly so. His "stories", as he called them, were usually just wrapping up when I'd come over to spend the day with him, so I'd hear this playing while the end credits rolled. He's been gone since 2004 and there isn't a day that goes by where I don't think of him in some form. I love you, Grandpa.

[@kmoore5215]

All older people called the stories. 😂😂😂❤️

[@thegiftedone]

Josh😔 that was beautiful man… your killing me over here!🥹🥲

[@mehmetokay7073]

Mrs. Williams, the lady who used to take care of us as children during the day in the early 70s, called them her "stories."

[@mytriton54]

This story was called, "Another World." One of my grandmother's favorites.

[@don312000]

@@mytriton54 Actually, it's used on The Young and the Restless, not Another World.

[@PianoSoulos]

My grandma, who passed away a few years ago, used to watch me when I had half-days in Kindergarten, this would always play when I was eating lunch, this song always puts me back there, her smile, the way the house smelled, feeling the cool breeze in the fall and spring as I watched the sun cascade and shimmer through the window bouncing off the tiny specs of dust...... Not many songs provide a backdrop to your life so significantly and profoundly as this one....memories fade, but they never age a day...

[@mikehenningsen8796]

Your Grandma played that every day, not for you, she had to watch her SoapOpera, Y+R.

[@QueenBee-gx4rp]

Beautiful memories…..

[@mouchiecat1]

That’s so beautiful. ❤

[@christopherstory2136]

Beautiful sentiment...

[@TUNITMOM]

When I was in middle school I played the clarinet to this song, it always made me cry. The melody is so beautiful and sad at the same time.

[@jtjjbannie]

Still a masterpiece in 2020.

[@rebeccachavez2318]

And forever will be. 👍

[@culturethevibe2125]

This is timeless you ain’t getting this back

[@rebeccaarcher5114]

2021 😉

[@conniecridland5410]

And 2021

[@SD-ds3yh]

2022

[@fframer1]

Takes me back to summers as a kid and visiting my grandparents in Alabama. It was so hot i would stay inside in the a.c. and Grandma watched The Young and the Restless,so this song became engrained in my memory. These days i get very melancholy when i hear it.

[@johnfarel3152]

Same. My grandmother immediately comes to mind. From the 1980s when she would visit our house in Virginia and bring her own 13 inch tv so she could watch to 15 years later vacationing with her in New York or Maine This theme always accompanied her

[@historyandhorseplaying7374]

@@johnfarel3152 Where in VA

[@michaelstephens2685]

" Hung and Breastless "

[@salmonella4u]

I used to like all the old soap opera opening themes.

[@burberryclaretred6676]

Same

[@555shortstop]

This song is a soul searching tune that makes me reflect on the last 65 years of my life...remembering all the good things mixed in with the bad, and what I missed if I had taken the road less traveled and made different choices....We can only DREAM.

[@shiningfaceofluzon5594]

Same and I'm only 26

[@onlyme112]

Don't worry. You didn't miss anything.

[@rich4183]

I'm 64 and I feel the same!

[@bellaimages]

I recently turned 65 years old too. Just left a long comment on this Nadia's Theme .. it had me in tears hearing it again as I probably have not heard it since the 1970's. Mixed with some painful and some sweet memories. Like you, I often wonder what might have been had I made other choices. We are alive now, and we can still dream. Always keep hope!

[@beckydutra6543]

This completely represents Nadia's gracefulness, beauty, and the love everyone had for her. 💖

[@s4dreamland671]

Indeed!

[@Mr0902256]

Who’s Nadia?

[@Mr0902256]

@Emily The Gymnast thank you. This would be one of my favorite instrumental songs of all times. I wish I could share a slow dance with a lady every time I hear this song. I did with my ex-girlfriend.

[@tonymanero5544]

She’s still alive, but when she wasn’t 98 lbs, she had a different life.

[@richbrake9910]

Nadia Comenci, Gymnast from Romania? Knocked Olga Korvett out of the medal platform in 1976? Never knew this was her song.

[@jrpc6837]

Im a metalhead from the 80's...but my guilty pleasure is listening to this masterpiece

[@tomsawyer5736]

Yup me too

[@davidrubio-lf5rc]

Same here.

[@14caz68]

Et moi.

[@gunnarbiker]

Does anyone else tear up listening to this?

[@Deathmagnet13]

Tear da club up

[@duncangreghoe9039]

me...

[@culturethevibe2125]

This brings me pure memories of my late mother

[@SergioSanchez-iv8bz]

One of those rare moments were you hear something so beautiful we can’t help but tear up

[@katrinabooth7626]

Me 😭

[@trudyreeves6952]

I love this tune. It will always be the theme from Y&R to me. I had no idea this originally started with the best gymnast in the 70s Nadia Comaneci ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@barryrose5294]

It started with the 1971 soundtrack for the movie “Bless The Beasts and the Children”…it was titled Cotton’s Dream

[@yellowfin1962]

It is a wonderful piece. The actual name for it is “Cotton’s Dream” and is by far one of the most beautiful pieces I’ve ever heard.

[@karenughoc2849]

I'm so glad that young and the restless use this song.

[@madmike1967og]

I always think of you mom even after all these years that you have been gone. I love you to the very core of my soul and miss you more then one can bare. Coming home from school and I would here this them and you were always working around the house and working 2 Job's, to give us a better life'. Mother I would give anything to just hold you just one more time. thank you for all that you gave up for your children, Elaine Williams, was the greatest mom and sweetest friend anyone could ever hope for and GOD, took here at a very young age, If you are reading this and your mother is still with you, please tell her you love her every day. Because their is nothing like a mothers love for her children. Life is so short,, so treat her like the queen that she is.

[@Mrfixitmarty]

Thank you for that, Michael! I, too, would love to be able to hug my departed mom once more! Never really appreciated her while I had the chance.

[@MDzVQPln]

[@danielmorse6597]

I think of my parents and grandparents. They worked and gave up so we could have a future. Today parents for the most part just only try. Mine moved mountains.

[@gansdavid]

Mr Williams, your comment nearly brought me to tears. I cannot tell you how much admiration I have for people who love their mothers.. It's a soft spot for me. I feel for you and God bless.

[@danielmorse6597]

I still find the song moves me. I also think of a lost love. The times we had together. Watching from my gate as my love left, to never return. It was never the same since then. Still, I had to move on. I bought a house for us to love in. It is still empty. I can not bring myself to move in.

[@sonyabennett2730]

I used to watch Young and the Restless when I was a teenager and loved the song, but now as I listen it has a calming effect brings me back to those days of not having a care in the world.

[@ahhwe-any7434]

it doesnt calm me. i still find it funny...

[@latinoheat5169]

Nadia's Theme. Adagio for Strings. Somewhere in Time. Beautiful Melodies 🎻🎹🎶

[@OBSZIDIAN548]

To ALL the AMAZING GRANDMOTHERS that left our lives and started us off on the right foot....from golden times....through through great depressions.....world wars.....through long migrations.....through many births and hardships......THANK YOU THIS THEME BRINGS US BACK TO YOUR LOVING EMBRACE.....WARM MEALS.....WE OWE YOU OUR LIVES LITERALLY!!!!!! MISS YOU BOTH

[@sukalyanipaul3220]

Wow! Such beautiful words. Wise words. Grandmother I knew and the other I've heard so much about. Thank you

[@williamlee9175]

AMEN 🙏 JESUS LIVES 🙏 AMEN!!!!! Miss my G*MA MABEL WILL SEE HER IN HEAVEN AMEN 🙏 JESUS IS LORD AMEN 🙏

[@marycantu1634]

Wow, beautiful said.

[@luvtheseguys]

Before my mom died, she had a dog that would stop everything and "sing" to this everyday!! He would sit in front of the tv everytime Y and R came on!! I miss her and Sparky.

[@Steve-yo4ld]

Wow, does this Melody brings time crashing back!?😢 Reading the drop-down on the history of this, it seems like it was all yesterday! What a time it was to be young and innocent!❤

[@mitchconner2021]

This piano will always remind me of my late grandmother. She watched this show for as long as I can remember. I miss her.

[@Omodollars]

Who else is listening to this in 2024❤

[@izuX7]

😀

[@janetlawson4482]

Definitely me❤, such nostalgia.

[@Mike-nd6ox]

yesss

[@czescasia192]

Magic wonderfull

[@Omodollars]

@@czescasia192 Indeed, it's magical😍😍😍

[@johnjustice8976]

Still a Masterpiece in 2023

[@jmscressey]

Absolutely

[@FromMyEyesToYours]

Most people never realize that this piece was not written for the Young and the Restless.. and it was not written for or about Nadia Comaneci.. and it was not written to become a radio hit.. and it was not written by Henry Mancini. No, it was composed by Barry De Vorzon and Perry Botkin Jr. as "Cotton's Dream" for the score of the motion picture Bless the Beasts and Children where it made a very wonderful impact and remembrance. So here's thinking of you, Cotton, and your squad of brave and wondrous souls. Love you guys :-)

[@marioreoyan3405]

thank's for your input, i was hear in radio drama scoring sounds before nadia won the olympic.

[@tonyavila2517]

yes...I realized that fact.. now to late..stil wont erase the connection to comaneci

[@cyphrinfinity9992]

thanks for info! have a good one!

[@dianarumpf1248]

Bless the Beasts and the Children is the only book I ever read three times. It is an amazing, classic story for the ages.

[@tiffsaver]

Thanks for posting. I hate it when the true originator fails to get any credit. You just corrected that.

[@T-Rex-nm1se]

Ahh the good old days back as a kid being at my grandma's house when my parents were at work and she would always watch the young and the restless and I would always hear this theme song play everytime when she was babysitting me. This theme still plays in my head even after all these years after my grandmas death in 2011. Rest in peace grandma, i miss you 😔

[@DavidRLentz]

😟 Even years on, your love for your grandmother comes through.

[@organlover1988]

My grandmother passed in 2012 and hearing this song reminds me of being at her house too. Great memories.

[@jeannettexnovember9872]

The Young and the Restless tv soap opera began using a light remix of "Nadia's Theme" in 1988, then switched to a jazz arrangement from 1999 to 2003 before returning to the 1988 version in 2003. I could see why a soap opera wanted to use this song.

[@clairestephens4916]

My Granny watched The Young & The Restless too while I stayed with her when my Mama was at work. I remember humming the song a lot as a child because it was so beautiful.

[@82sweetheart]

This is a very beautiful and touching melody ~ every time I listen ~ I am moved to tears (both happy and sad tears) thinking of long-lost love, and all the loved ones that are now gone and the memories we shared ~ I think the melody somehow captivates and moves me through all the triumphs and tragedies that I have experienced at one time or another ~ "The Young and the Restless" was my late sister's favorite show and I remember watching it with her ~ this song is easily on the 'soundtrack of my life' ~

[@chanw426]

Wow, I can truly identify with that. During summer vacations when I was growing up, every activity that took place every morning revolved around my Mom and Grandmother being in front of the tv by 11:30 to watch The Young and the Restless. And I'm not ashamed to say I liked it too. : )

[@johnsnyder9381]

Yes

[@johnsnyder9381]

I think of my first love when I hear this. Oh the days of youth,wish I knew then what I know now.

[@1morehouse4me]

I meant to say, that I agree 100% on your original comment. It's amazing to see how much music is part of the fiber of our beings, tying memories, experiences, and time all together, and how when we hear it, we experience the feelings all over again...

[@leventoespinado]

82sweetheart i am agree with you. i am feeling the same.

[@marybivens4838]

I'm thinking of my Mother now listening to this song - I grew up watching Young & Restless with my mother, now mom is gone home but I'm still watching YR for you mom and I know you are watching it with me !

[@kevinlookabaugh5489]

Mary Bivens Awesome

[@mrt723]

yes i thought it was from the show when i commented,,

[@tracybland2649]

I watched yr with mama. It was our hr together. Mom went home in 91. She was the one who got me into ynr. Been watching since I was 15 im now 54.

[@luciusfunk]

My mom was never big into Y&R, but I’d watch it sometimes with her. I miss watching The Bold and the Beautiful and As the World Turns with her. She’s been gone 13 years and I’d give anything to watch these shows with her again.

[@jans9448]

Thinking of my Grandmother, miss you so!

[@elizabetha4473]

This hauntingly beautiful song was written for the movie "Bless The Beasts And The Children". One of my all-time favorite movies.

[@TheCissero]

we should fight violence against innocent defenseless both children and animals that greedy corporations only care about exploiting corrupting is so disgusting.Our government should make stronger regulations of greedy exploitations

[@pigpog2307]

It was originally titled Cottons Dream by Barry Devorzon and Perry Botkin Jr.

[@Zarga8]

Wow, I remember that movie

[@nadia-mi9fk]

My name is Nadia and now it's my favorite music

[@nadiastephens5425]

Me 2

[@serifveadamlari]

+Nadia Lerner Me too

[@giovannilucchetti4469]

Lol

[@mr.x6272]

Congratulation!!

[@realorfake4765]

In the 1976 Olympics this was Nadia Comineci's gymnastic performance music. She got a 10 for her performace and everyone fell in the love with the girl behind the Iron Curtain. She married Bart Connors (An American gymnist) many years later.

[@nestorcaamano307]

This is the most beautiful song I ever have heard in a very long time.

[@miller45]

I can't count down how many times I've heard this song and returned it to the beginning again

[@blitz2687]

It's 2021 and I still come back to this. Just brings back good memories. Timeless

[@ChrisClayton-f2y]

I don't think there is another peice of music that solicits in me the depth of both joy and pain as this peice does. I am crushed by its weight every time I hear it.

[@Michael34-14]

Mancini will always be the Godfather of smooth music.

[@purplebombdetonation3142]

+Michael "Mancini will always be the Godfather of smooth music." That's not Mancini. What's wrong with you guys?

[@cristianmicu]

the world knows him for pink panther theme mostly

[@jimfrederick3907]

Throw in Percy Faith

[@byngostar6895]

I think Jackie Gleason would have liked that title...

[@boadicea5856]

The greatest composer of the 20th century. And from Pittsburgh PA. 💓

[@Kirke182]

I'm in high school, mid-70s. I'm home sick with flu in bed half-asleep and I hear this come on in the family room because my mother watched it. That's what I think of when I hear this.

[@hbennett5640]

Same here♡

[@RichPlayz.]

I remember this music from childhood. Thank you.

[@David-ow9bc]

We can appreciate all the many composers and orchestra leaders to bring us such music but Henry Mancini is the one who brings the most extraordinary music of them all. Most incredible!

[@curcumin417]

Not Henry Mancini! "Nadia's Theme", originally titled "Cotton's Dream", is a piece of music composed by Barry De Vorzon and Perry Botkin Jr in 1971. It was originally used as incidental music for the 1971 film Bless the Beasts and Children, and is better known as the theme music to the television soap opera The Young and the Restless since the series premiered in 1973. "Cotton's Dream" was renamed "Nadia's Theme" after it became associated with Olympic gymnast Nadia Comăneci during and after the 1976 Summer Olympics -Wiki Entry

[@dessy844]

​@@curcumin417that is right, Mancini interpretation is great too, however that movie: bless the beast and the Children makes me think of The Carpenters who sang the movie soundtrack, another amazing piece of music 👍👍

[@YoungYahtz94]

Song reminds me of my grandma, watching her shows. I still think about her just about every day, RIP 🕊

[@thomaswoodman5139]

reminds me of mom and grandmother both deceased now loved the serial Young And The Restless. They would watch together during their lunch hour from work at 12:30pm. I lost my mom on May 6th 2020 from the horrible disease Alzheimers. My sister took care of her and helped her leave this world into Heaven along with home hospice making her feel as comfortable as possible as she also suffered strokes towards the end. I still grieve today and even as I post I am crying. My grandmother passed away in 1989 of cancer

[@lisamarie0678]

This song is also played in the 1971 movie Bless the Beasts and the Children. A very sad lost for words song that brings tears to one's eyes. Very beautiful piece yet very sad.🌹

[@robertomazariegos8841]

This song came out in 1976.

[@rogerfreed6414]

I believe it WAS originally in Bless The Beasts And Children and later the name was changed to Nadia's Theme when she used it for her performance. Correct me if I am wrong.

[@amani2222]

Absolutely captivating and the music takes me back to another place and time ❤

[@markpierrepont8576]

Music allways takes you back in time ,this song reminds me of my mother she loved the show

[@brittanyfisk4764]

Makes me think of my grandpa. I’ve never had a song make me cry until now

[@Sarasdad91]

Henry was a musical genius. We couldn't have had such amazing tunes without him. R.I.P. Henry we miss you...

[@queentargaryen9389]

didn't realize until hearing this that this was on the young and the restless. my momma loved that show and hearing this is like being with her again. she died so young i miss you momma.

[@chadsavage5197]

Perry Botkin Jr. passed away today at the age of 87. A very talented composer (and the guy who discovered Harry Nilsson, btw). Rest in peace. This was one of my favorite pieces of music when I was a kid and to this day.

[@handsinknead77]

Like most people here, I've watched The Young and the Restless with my mom. The logo stuck in my mind and I even remembering doodling it on notebooks when remembering the theme song. It stuck so much that it embedded into the fabric of my mind. It has so much longing, hope, sadness and beauty in one song. This piece is a prime example of so much being conveyed without words, only music. Truly a work of art.

[@christopherosborne8172]

This makes me think of my great grandma we always watched young and restless during my childhood in France 🇫🇷. RIP

[@elizabethmolano3490]

This is a true masterpiece. Bravo!

[@FreddieSeal]

R.I.P. Perry Botkin Jr., Composer of The Young and the Restless' Nadia's Theme. 1933-2021

[@BruceOp]

Aww RIP

[@michaelbonney3372]

RIP...Mr.Botkin...Thank you for this...

[@lengraham8406]

Listening to this master piece in the time of covid19 gives me faith in humanity.

[@deborahorton3176]

When I got married we didn't walk down the isle to the wedding march but to this. My husband is now my ex but I'll always love this song and the man he used to be. Both will be forever in my heart.

[@ROTTYLUV4ME]

How the hell do you not like this theme.

[@teelew4999]

ROTTYLUV4ME Growing up in my home that was that take a nap song. You knew the stories were coming on and it was a common practice so that parents could get a break. Hence the reason why some pre-k & Head start schools still made you take that nap. It was so they could get a break. So it's not the song per say, but they remember what that song meant. It made the best not like it. It was like an alarm clock for parent to make you take that nap lol!!!

[@MixedNutsMs]

Very well put!

[@jimfrederick3907]

Summer Place

[@salmonella4u]

I have a fondness for people who love this kind of music. To me it shows kindness, tenderness, innocence, mercy, care, peacefulness, serenity, nostalgic, reminisce, sentiment and the words go on. Show me a person who loves this music and I'll be a friend for life.

[@ron5481]

@@salmonella4u well, I love this tune, and I have anger issues, and can be difficult to be around. But underneath that, I'd like to think I do have those qualities you listed. I'm just so troubled by certain things in my life I don't always handle myself right.

[@whammy850]

Good to know I'm not alone in coming here for memories involving my mom. My mom passed away less than a month ago. My appointment show was The Price Is Right and hers was Young And The Restless which immediately followed. Few things bring up as vivid a memory of her as this tune, and it's comforting to hear it in full.

[@hbennett5640]

Exactly the same memories♡

[@landyachtfan79]

This is, to my mind, one of the most beautiful pieces that has ever been recorded!!!!!!

[@missjeanba]

This theme reminds me my Dad..rest in peace.. he enjoyed this theme.. he told me that he used to play and watch the snow..listening this kind of music..

[@MJLeger-yj1ww]

It reminds me of my Dad also! He was not a musician but he loved music and made sure all of us kids learned to play piano and/or an instrument. And he had superb means of playing it, with speakers in every corner of our living-room. He would really feel it and sometimes pretended like he was conducting an orchestra. He said he had piano lessons as a child on the farm, but only knew one little one-hand tune on the piano and he forgot even that with time. But he never lost his love of music. I can still see him standing in front of the stereo or Ampex or whatever back then, loving those famous classical compositions! He would put something on and lay in his recliner to relax after a lengthy day's work) (surgery began at 7:00 a.m. and after that, he had office hours). He would tell us "wake me up in half an hour" so he could go out and work in our garden in the summer.

[@EphemeralProductions]

❤️❤️❤️

[@JavinShee]

Same here..

[@barbaramelville6940]

So sorry for your loss

[@markberry3381]

Steve Wright brought me here, listening to his Sunday morning radio programme, its a shocker, like most GEN Xers we grew up with him in the afternoons, where ever you are now Steve thanks so much for the laughs.

[@555shortstop]

This beautiful music makes me cry and brings back many fond memories of my younger days.

[@coleenjacobs9410]

To everyone who has lost your mother or loved one I support you. I lost my mom 10 yrs ago and my sister 4 yrs ago as well, not to mention my dad and a older and younger brother due to cancer, a stroke and diabetes. Thanks for listening and my prayers are with you all. 💐💓👍

[@franciscorafael7975]

❤❤❤❤

[@weitzfc1]

this type of beautiful music is for all time .

[@witoldjulianjakutowicz4060]

I remember this music from Bless the Beasts and the Children, when it screened in South Africa in 1974. It was very moving and I remember the ending. This music always takes me back to those days of innocense

[@bharatsarna6038]

Henry Mancini is superb . He is a true master

[@joemarz2264]

Agreed!

[@purplebombdetonation3142]

"Henry Mancini is superb": Yes, but that's not Mancini.

[@rickwheeler5496]

Not sure how Henry Mancini was credited for this, it is Perry Botkin Jr.

[@robinsss]

the uploader is tricking us

[@fucheduck]

he know where to put up and downbeats and whack out your subconscious mind with mood.

[@sylviac5699]

This song reminds me of my sweet mama i would watch young n the restless with her oh how i miss her😞

[@laasnadevi5969]

Somehow this theme has a haunting effect. Once you listen to it , it goes on ringing in your mind.

[@GCBlues45]

Join us again for the Young & the Restless. Stay tune for As The World Turns on most of these CBS stations.

[@boofdfast]

Yep, same closing credits from 1987-2002(6?). Friggin classic.

[@coronaheiress0928]

GCRams2 Thanks for the memory! (sigh)👍

[@dezzytalim5370]

LOL yup. My aunt would watch all the time.

[@danielmorse6597]

So long ago.

[@mikeluvrs]

ha ha good one! actually if you watch today it seems more intense then this version.

[@lahomascott2911]

Brings back a lot of Memories, growing up listening to that, and the Theme song from the YOUNG and the RESTLESS, WHAT A CLASSIC AND LIVES ON FOREVER ❤⚘️🥰

[@juliejenkins3153]

This is one of the most melodious and captivating scores of all time...you could waltz to this forever...in the dreams of The Young and the Restless...which is the longest running soap opera in daytime television and I have watched it from nearly the beginning...and still watch it daily...

[@sherryhannah498]

JULIE JENKINS I thought Days of our Lives was the longest running soap opera it debuted in November 1965 this year it'll be celebrating its 50th anniversary

[@juliejenkins3153]

Maybe I should add a correction...the longest running soap opera on CBS. Sorry for the omission.

[@GeorgeRother]

The Young & The Restless ..... memories of summer afternoons when I was 9 and Mom was in the kitchen watching her stories while I played with my cousin in the hall or the living room. Lunches consisted of fried Spam sandwiches and Pepsi. Good times!

[@tonyavila2517]

i like ur story

[@lbroderick783]

Yes, I remember those days, too. I'll take a Pepsi!

[@lorideeley]

we must be the same age! sounds like my life. 51??? Life without Jesus was sad.

[@GeorgeRother]

HachiZenki..... Pepsi and Marlboro 100s actually

[@anthonyvasquez5128]

Mmmmm fried spam, tasty.

[@crappiefillet333]

This song makes me feel incredibly sad but I dont know exactly why

[@MrWc867]

Mom and Dad took care of everything for us and we sat on the couch without a care in the world eating our sandwich mom made us. Now days there is so much stress and responsibility and we are now in their shoes.

[@crappiefillet333]

@@MrWc867 yes indeed. Canned pears and toast were my favorite lunch

[@salt27dogg]

It brings melancholy

[@cynsini9211]

Minor chords/key signatures will do that. Always had a penchant for minor key songs for that reason. They just sound more beautiful to me.

[@boltzmannbrain8698]

We only got two channels on the tube so it was either the young and the restless or the soap on the other channel during the summer. To tune the antenna, one of us would go outside and turn it while the other one watched the tv and yelled outside when it was tuned in. I actually miss only having 2 channels instead of 200 and infinite media on the internet. Good times but that nostalgia does make me sad

[@sidmiewar]

When I was a junior high school student, the melody of this song was deeply engraved in my heart like other impressive tracks. My father bought an amplifier+speaker with CD player at that time, and I probably have heard it from a certain CD. With the advancement of the Internet, I found the source of many familiar melodies at that time, except this one. until now

[@markfranco3690]

This gets me Every Time. Haunting, Sad, Uplifting-- Simply Beautiful- a true masterpiece.

[@joaomarcelino3621]

Uma das mais marcantes de Mancini. Inesquecível.

[@richcountyratrodsjrod2329]

This song makes u love someone u don't even know.

[@Lara-yp5oc]

Right ✅

[@richcountyratrodsjrod2329]

@@Lara-yp5oc u know what I saying lol

[@SuperDetroit9]

@Rich Country Rat Rods JROD;couldn't have put that better myself!!

[@anitavallee994]

Yes!!!

[@philminkeesickquayash8988]

And that Perfect stranger is moving in slo mo...

[@timkoehler5737]

My Mom would listen to this song on original 33 1/3 rpm vinyl record. This is such a beautiful song, and I always shed a tear remembering my Mom every time I listen to it!

[@Alanb1980]

When I was a kid I remember hearing my older sister sitting at the piano and playing this. And then I would hear it on tv. Now, at almost 40, I am sitting here listening to this song and I am remembering that time in my life and I’m missing my sister(who died three years ago).

[@JimmyJam1125]

thats tough man

[@danbeach6467]

One of the most beautiful pieces of all time, thank you!

[@alyssaroudebush8288]

I looked up Nadia's routine's and they were FLAWLESS!!! She got 10-10 from every judge! I recommend looking her up. She was amazing!!!!!!!!!

[@Appleholic1]

Ally Roudebush Yes she was and I watched every performance live.

[@juantubero8912]

Appleholic1 it was a beautiful performance...I was 12 and I remember every time they scored her 10s....I am also glad I saw.

[@alyssaroudebush8288]

+Juan Tubero Wow! Your super lucky!!

[@xxkboom]

Will do.

[@jameswilliams8568]

She was amazing.

[@jeopardy60611]

This song has a new meaning for me because in recent years, a cousin of mine married into Nadia's family. I find it interesting that the song was originally called "Cottons Dream," then it became "Nadia's Theme," and now it's prominent in "The Young and the Restless" as its theme and background music.

[@alincirstescu4732]

Wow,interesting! Such a great story!

[@DavidRLentz]

"Cotton's Dream" in the motion picture, Bless the Beasts and the Children, came first. Karen Carpenter sang the title song. Barry deVorzon and Perry Botkin, Jr., composed the score.

[@FarmersAreDummies]

"Bless The Beasts and the Children" is a cult classic about misfits. Cotton was their leader.

[@davidhakes5141]

In the 1976 summer Olympics, a young gymnast by the name of Nadia Comaneci, performed her floor routine, and her balance beam routine to this music. That's when it became "Nadia's Theme". I was 11 years old, and remember watching the Olympics that summer, and was totally captivated by her. Nadia's Theme: The Young and the Restless is the full title.

[@nonspicymemes395]

When I was 4 I always heard this song coming from the living room tv while my mom was watching soap operas and I never thought I'll hear it again until now

[@60srecords]

+Justin Kalil Funny

[@seymourglass26]

+60srecords There's actually nothing funny about that. What are you even talking about?

[@60srecords]

+seymourglass26 no i said that ,because i too thought the same as Justin. memories .

[@TJCiryak]

I hear it every day Monday thru Friday. My wife has been addicted to this soap for ever

[@simonmorris3964]

The young and the restless also bless the beasts and children movie 1971

[@helivillenasalas9817]

Nadia, como olvidar su maravillosa performance... perfecto! Siempre será Nadia.

[@lamenace5839]

Comaneci is a legend

[@genevieveg.zamora8618]

This song brings me to tears every Time I listen to it. It reminds me so much of my Mom & my older son .Both gone from this World .I love you my sweet mother, I love you my beloved son - miss you so much.May you both R.I P.😢😢🌷🌼🌷🌼

[@JLKeener77]

I remember the first time I heard this beautiful and haunting song. I must have been only four or five and was struck by how "weird" and different it sounded from anything I had ever heard. Makes me think of my mom watching her soap operas. R.I.P., Mom.

[@edinsyracuse1669]

I imagine conducting this recording and feeling the shivers down to the bones as the violins reach the crescendo. Music such as this is very powerful.

[@TonyaDenton-ks8mh]

🤍 good statement 👍🤍

[@Max-dr6rz]

song makes me shed a few tears. i remember when my dad used to put this song sometimes, i miss him so much…

[@mariaelenavecchione2213]

❤❤

[@7777LORENZO]

Watched it from the very beginning and still do.this song is a tear maker.so appropriate even as our years go by.youth ...you can't hold it and soon too old.