Y&R Evolution of the Opening Credits from 1973-2023

[@robertnicholls9249]

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!

[@scootover7]

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,

[@jrmetmoi]

It’s so pretty and romantic

[@briansetpente1019]

I remember playing the long theme on the radio what a master piece 🙂

[@deewells4259]

I AGREE.

[@GGItaly]

It’s because the score was not created for a soap but for a motion picture

[@dmlagrange]

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❤❤❤❤

[@elizabethanne8729]

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. 😭♥️

[@milo5623]

Same lol except I was born in 2000 and my grandma also watched this throught my childhood.

[@ponchoman49]

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.

[@KENDALLSQUARE-o7p]

I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU.

[@SS-hd7kn]

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.👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌

[@didoburns]

Young and Restless's theme song is unarguably the best in soap opera history.

[@theyoungandtherestlessSuperfan]

100000000000000 %

[@UncoolNegated]

Henry Mancini. Nadia's Theme. But people will just call it The Young and the Restless.

[@spencerroberts-sz9xm]

Definitely the best! Love the show

[@victoriahaghighat]

That’s a fact

[@fullervisiondotnet]

Barry DeVorzon, actually, but yeah. ​@@UncoolNegated

[@amiehampton7070]

All the opening credits of Y&R is outstanding. I'm glad it add a new one. Happy 50th Anniversary Y&R.

[@tiaflies]

It was so cool how they had the sketches of the characters in the early openings

[@christophercummings4502]

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.

[@theyoungandtherestlessSuperfan]

no problem when I get the chance I always listen to Nadia’s Theme

[@jamieakagibby]

This theme is such a timeless tune ❤

[@chrispleasantable]

It’s no wonder Mary J. Blige sampled it in her song “No More Drama”

[@phillipsosophy]

So happy they decided to go back to the original theme after the short period without it. The music is truly timeless.

[@theyoungandtherestlessSuperfan]

agreed

[@likeinflationkeepvotingdem1394]

I like the short period without it, that's what makes it diverse just like it's sister show The Bold & Beautiful

[@RailStalkerAdventures]

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

[@machineguy97]

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

[@michaelpickerstudios8625]

⁠@@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.

[@coondogtheman]

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.

[@coreynorthington9872]

This is awesome 💯👍🔥❤️!! Past, present, and future coming together..

[@theyoungandtherestlessSuperfan]

Tysm

[@marshalledwards7311]

agreed

[@FraserFir-sb4lk]

Eric Braeden has been in everything since forever ago.

[@DoIGetTube]

Herr Johannes-Erich Gudegast Von Braeden SHOULD have been in NOTHING as OF forever ago.

[@allanheath1787]

May he live forever 💚💜💚💜💚💜💚

[@nicholassakamoto2455]

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

[@michaelvaladez3012]

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!

[@InDadequate]

Eric Braeden - 44 years on a single soap opera...wow

[@paradoxstudios6639]

it paid the bills i recon.

[@leighburton832]

This is the only soap opera that kept the same theme song for 50 years!

[@theyoungandtherestlessSuperfan]

your right except the years 1999-2003

[@tiaflies]

Days has, too

[@jrmetmoi]

@@tiafliesyou’re right

[@marcviau6002]

I believe days of our lives has never changed.

[@theyoungandtherestlessSuperfan]

@@marcviau6002 they haven’t except for updating the music and the man who says the iconic phrase but that is about it.

[@EricJones_J]

The Young and the Restless is best theme song💯

[@AldenRDavis]

THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS made it through for 50 years and still going strong.

[@MichaelOKeefe2009]

Along with the daytime game show juggernaut THE PRICE IS RIGHT and LMAD make CBS the undisputed CHAMPION in daytime programming.

[@MichaelOKeefe2009]

NOBODY can beat CBS in daytime programming--NOBODY!

[@A13XLaircey]

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!!)

[@Caricature80]

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!

[@CoachBulldogJohnny]

I can only imagine what will happen to this show when Victor dies

[@marshalledwards7311]

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.

[@ItsRolexSleezy]

My mom used to watch this show almost every night when I was 5

[@lesleypaterson1463]

Truly, an outstanding peice of music, Nadias theme. The extended, full theme is magical.

[@ManuelGuzman067]

I watched almost 40 on off of YNR . My aunt got me hooked in late 70s as a kid .😉

[@theyoungandtherestlessSuperfan]

Omg really ! y&r in the 70s was the best era in my opinion

[@chrismcevoy2503]

I was born in 1974 myself so I like the 1974 intro to The Young And The Restless.

[@vaughanryan-hv9wd]

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.

[@deemoe7301]

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.

[@cdubz265]

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.

[@BapiB-oo5il]

Goosebumps!

[@nicholassakamoto2455]

I’ve only been watching Y&R for almost two months now and I must say that the show and it’s opening credits wouldn’t be the same without any of it’s beloved characters, especially Victor Newman, Nikki Newman and Jack Abbott.

[@scootover7]

I want to buy a piano and learn how to play this amazing theme.

[@theyoungandtherestlessSuperfan]

yes as you should it is an amazing theme and there are a lot of tutorials on youtube on how to play the theme

[@stevenambrose6266]

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.

[@duckcover-ez3pd]

It triggers memories for everyone of a given time in American past. For me it triggers memories of the 70s and 80s when the America of that time was so different from today, no one born in 1980 or later would really understand or if they went back in time, they'd sear they were in a very different nation because it was. I enjoyed the 90s too. 70s-90s. Seems like yesterday, All in the Family was on or even Charmed or Star Trek Voyager with our first female Captain, Janeway. As an old gay male, I miss a lot of things & this brings back memories. I'm terminally ill now but it brings comfort to hear the theme song. Thanks for putting it up.

[@nadiaadams1139]

The 2000's slayed it!🔥🔥🔥

[@anthonymeans7439]

IKR!It always had a prime time/Knots Landingish feel

[@dieselgav]

Shame this series never really took off in the UK as it is a quality daytime soap. The only "era" I saw was between 1987 and 1990 on Sky One, which is the set of titles with the roman type face and semi-animated head shots. I remember Michael Damien (?), who was a singer being prominent in these episodes. Sky said it was too expensive to buy any more episodes! It changed to lesser known TV channels and sadly hasnt aired here for nearly 15 years. It is the opening and theme tune that attracted me to this series. I love it. And I still listen to it occasionally on here. Happy 50th Anniversary Y&R from the UK!

[@niamhflynn]

Christel Khalil’s first appearance in 2002 called The Young and the Restless. She played Lily Winters Ashby in The Young and the Restless.

[@Sincopare]

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'!

[@TheRadioAteMyTV]

Thanks for putting it together. Very fun and a whole lot of memories in minutes that took decades to make.

[@Michael-uu9nv]

This was my moms favorite show she would never miss an episode.

[@aprentissdaye]

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! ❤️🤍🥂

[@Jer1190]

I remember the 2003-2012 one, my grandma always liked to watch this

[@donnagelina8548]

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.

[@SalvatoreEscoti]

I live in Europe, in Itally this show was called "Febbre d'amore"= Fever of Love. And in germany it was called "Schatten der Leidenschaft"= Shadows of desire/ Shadows of passion :-) ;-)

[@theyoungandtherestlessSuperfan]

cool i didn’t now that ty

[@Ikki30900]

in France it's called "les feux de l'amour" = The fire of love

[@JerryWoods-fv4mz]

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 😢

[@jerrysimpson1416]

"Forever Ago" I like that terminology! Awesome. I do remember seeing Eric Braden in a (3) Part "GUNSMOKE"

[@nostalgialady8752]

Happy 50th anniversary Y&R🥲💐🎉

[@SPTO]

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.

[@theyoungandtherestlessSuperfan]

Of course no problem at all!!

[@Xx-VSM-xX]

My grandma has watched this since day 1. I always remember hearing this intro growing up haha

[@mikalugg5641]

Asia China 🇨🇳 Japan 🇯🇵 Taiwan 🇹🇼 Philippines 🇵🇭 Malaysia 🇲🇾

[@cassandradennis5685]

Oh my gosh 😢😢(happy tears)❤❤❤❤

[@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812]

Anybody else think this music would make a good bridal theme?

[@theyoungandtherestlessSuperfan]

yes it would omg ur a Genius

[@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812]

@@theyoungandtherestlessSuperfan Thank you. I try lol

[@BobbyHo2022]

Had to watch this cause my great grandmother watched me as a young child around lunch time daily.

[@carolynholody9281]

I always liked Y&R’s theme song and their opening credits- I still do!

[@SetoKaiba342]

Oh I love the remixed one so much cause I was a kid during it. My Mom Mom watched it every day when I stayed with her over the Summer. RIP Mom Mom !!!

[@chrismcevoy2503]

I started watching The Young And The Restless in 2012 when Amelia Heinle played Victoria Newman.

[@mattmusicaddict9183]

The way Nikki slid into the final montage at the 3:03 mark...brilliant!

[@CalisaVS]

i am 38 and i get goosebumps still like when i was a kid watching it with grandma

[@seanmontgomery801]

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?

[@Fan_Made_Videos]

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.

[@Dedra-fz8wq]

Mr Eric turned 83 yesterday April 3rd 2024

[@MsAileenValentine]

My aunt was a soap opera junkie. The Young and The Restless was her favorite.

[@Dedra-fz8wq]

My grandma watches this every day😅

[@BadDriversOfNorthCarolina]

Melody Thomas Scott is beautiful!

[@WhistleMeThis]

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.

[@sickheadache9903]

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…kzbin.info/www/bejne/npCulGWEoauAftEsi=POWh6vGCt6_PLM-1

[@Dedra-fz8wq]

I love this a lot 😢

[@redkson]

The most iconic soap opera opening sequence. But just imagine being invested in a show for over 50 yrs. Insane!!!!

[@theyoungandtherestlessSuperfan]

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!

[@T3XACAN0]

They should do something similar to General Hospital 50th Anniversary Opening.

[@theyoungandtherestlessSuperfan]

that would have been good

[@johnemery285]

@@theyoungandtherestlessSuperfan General Hospital is going to hit 60.

[@amiehampton7070]

@@johnemery285 I wish GH get a new opening like Y&R did.

[@KevinPayton-fq8gd]

Mary J. Bilge sampled this for her song "No More Drama."

[@victormathis529]

I had no choice, but to watch soaps my senior year of high school. I'd finished almost all my credits, so I got to leave campus at 12:00 during lunch hour. I only had 3 classes to pass during second quarter of high school,, which were PE, Science, & Math. So when I was done, I was suppose to leave after lunch, but I slipped it & went home. Since my dad was at work I would get home just in time to sit with my mom & watch General Hospital & the Young & Restless. I don't know why, but I admire Y&R opening credits, which had like 4 different opening of them spinning around going from portrait to movement to still frame again. It was all my mother watched, so I got hooked on it for just a while & enjoyed that time with my mother always explaining what was going on. From February of 1991 to March of 1992 was such quality time with my mom, until the day I left Georgia to move to California for college. Didn't even know Y&R was still running in 2023. Wonder if I start watching will it be current drama with the time or recycled drama I'd find myself saying, "been there, seen this b4?"

[@daviddieben]

Hands downs 80s and 90s were the best with Jill & Catherine and Jack a& Victor Sheila & Lauren conflicts and then David Kimble......

[@brianbarnes4243]

All of our childhood into one theme song ❤

[@Dedra-fz8wq]

I love it❤

[@AllenJones-w3p]

Legendary figure skater Tara Lipinski was a castmember on this show for a brief period.

[@JR-ir5on]

Melody Thomas Scott is unbelievably beautiful.

[@joaquimpayne1774]

Miss you

[@theyoungandtherestlessSuperfan]

aw ty just waiting for them to give some new credit poses

[@joaquimpayne1774]

Thank you folks

[@Dedra-fz8wq]

My great great grandma always watched this but she died in March of 2008 at 103 years old

[@donmccullen1973]

The only time they differ from the iconic Botkin/De Vorizon arrangement was the 1999 red carpet opening, before going back to tried and true (the 1984 remix of it however) ever since. Otherwise they stuck with the Cotton's Dream/Nadia's Theme while so many others changed their themes over the years.

[@chrismcevoy2503]

I’m a year younger than Amelia Heinle.

[@Cold187King]

I remember when Y&R used to pop up on TV One back in the 2000s until they axed the show and replaced it with Emmerdale

[@windsonma8209]

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.

[@cub35guy]

1999-2003 so outwardly different and a definite risk for the creative team. By far my favorite .

[@tomjanowski8584]

I wish for the 50th anniversary they had gone back to using drawings in the opening.

[@theyoungandtherestlessSuperfan]

I wish the 50th anniversary opening had them in drawing and then it would fade to them posing

[@charlesmorgan5823]

It is a fun song to play ❤

[@heidifedor]

An I the only one who thinks that Don Diamont got better looking as he got older?

[@nadiaadams1139]

WoW! Thank you.

[@theyoungandtherestlessSuperfan]

no problem! 😄

[@richardpardinho1683]

Vim aqui por causa do Julius. Ele está com gota e está vendo essa novela 😊

[@gabrieldasilva5711]

Jovens e inquietos kkkk

[@alimurat2893]

Es sind Erinnerungen vom Kindheit 😊

[@paulvoorhies8821]

1999-2003 was a damn shame.

[@UserNamez]

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.

[@funwithdollsandmore2426]

I did the same video about 5 months ago and yours was 4 months ago and has more views wow

[@sovietproductions7362]

Gone on longer than the Simpsons

[@franklyndarko9577]

I'm sorry but why did they have to change the theme 99-03 huh

[@Seven-kl9mw]

Right?! We see how well that one worked out because they changed it back hahaha

[@BopperBippity]

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

[@BopperBippity]

@phackfanforever interesting

[@RandallRedman]

Fredric is probably saying good grief.

[@RandallRedman]

Heard Walter either laughing or doing whatever. Good grief. I know he wants his Westerns. He will have that too.

[@DouglasBalgaard-yp4is]

Good song.

[@theyoungandtherestlessSuperfan]

Nadia’s theme is iconic

[@stacdenisee]

1988-1991 🔥