"The Edge Of Night" Soap-Opening And Closing (DIGITAL COLOR RECREATION)
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- Опубликовано: 17 янв 2011
- This is a FULL-COLOR, DIGITALLY-RECREATED opening and closing for CBS' "The Edge Of Night" soap opera-Circa 1974 (With the appropriate network/station bumper graphics-also recreated where necessary)
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My father wrote the theme song! The original theme song was just on piano and organ and he would play both, live, every show. Later on, he arranged it for a full assortment of instruments as you hear here.
Your dad was very creative, for sure. Imagine going in and playing it live when they just could have taped it and played it that way every day. I am not sure how the rules of broadcasting worked in those days. This particular arrangement is the richest one by far.....still holds up today.
BTW, this soap's opening in the late 50s had the scariest lead-in of any "daytime serial" for a little kid to view, as others have mentioned.
I met your father in August 1974 while I had a summer job at CBS. He gave me a copy of the handwritten sheet music to the opening theme and to the closing theme (but it was missing two bridges that he played in the long version). Do you have a copy of the sheet music for the long version the way he was playing it in 1974? He had a huge stack of unstapled old scripts on one of the tables in the music room. When I asked him about it, he said that he would bring the pages home to his son who liked to draw on the backs of the pages!
Regards from NYC!!!
Paul B Taubman That's awesome! I actually interviewed Donald May and he spoke very fondly of the theme to "Edge of Night." It's amazing God bless your father.
That is awesome Paul! I have written quite a few film and television scores before. Your father's theme song was gorgeous! Thanks so much for providing this information.
Paul B Taubman much respect for your father! I want to learn those intro piano chords! I’ve been trying to find out who wrote the intro. Where could I possibly find those chords and full song? Please help, I must play the song, I must!
I never, ever, ever watched this soap, but how could you hate the title and the announcer's pronounciation, The EDGE of Night. Truly classic TV.
+senorkaboom True! And the theme was to die for. Excellent orchestration.
pre kindergarten, 1964 - 1967, it use to scare me, then when i was a senior in high school one of my friends got me back into watching it, she loved the show and i started to watch it again, or we would call each other and tell what happened if one of us missed the show____i was in college when it went off the air in 1984, i was really bummed out
Memorable opening for sure.
The title is appropriate for the state of the world, 'these days '
@@TheBob3759 That, alone, is probably what kept viewers on the edge of their seat
As a kid I used to run home from school to watch The Edge of Night! Paul Taubman's stark, dramatic piano chords as the 'edge of night' moved across the skyline of Monticello let viewers know this was not your typical daytime drama!
How old are you now?
I remember my mom watching this when I was a little kid, I miss those days so much. Miss you momma... Damn I miss you momma! I miss her so much. She raised me.
Echoed sentiment.
That theme song can be used for my story
When I was about six years old, my grandmother had cataract surgery. She begged me to watch this with her and tell her what was happening. I was very bad at it, and the intro scared me silly. Glad to see it again after so much time
The music, The drama, The announcer; these all made The Edge of Night scary to me as a youngster when I wasn't in school and watching it with my Mother.
I went through other shows feeling the same way.
SAME HERE..!
@@jawoody9745Dark shadows?
I liked how the announcer said The E-D-G-E Of Night.
@Christopher Hagee I don't know who this announcer was. He did not quite have the style of the two main Edge of Night announcers Harry Cramer 1956 - 72 and the voice you are thinking of Hal Simms from 1972 - 77. Both were great but Hal Simms' version (Theeeee Edgggeeee OF NIGHT!!!!) was one I enjoyed!
Dan Curtis *truly* was ahead of his time as far as knowing that DS needed to be archived. As a result, pretty much the whole series has been available for reruns and home video. Only a precious few other soaps can say their entire runs were saved.
A shame Curtis didn't save his workprints of House and Night of Dark Shadows.
I believe the ‘ABC’ soaps were not saved.
@@brookehanley3659 Every episode of ABC's Dark Shadows is available.
He was a terrific writer!! "The Edge of Night" was one of my favorite daytime dramas!
I used to watch, back in the mid 70's.
The Adam and Nicole Drake/ Brandy storyline was quite engaging.
Dixie Carter, of Designing women, played Brandy.
Ann Flood, who played Nancy Carr was the longest player in the cast.Her name appeared first in the closing credits. Donald May's name appears last( Adam)
Would've been appropriate if his name appeared first
GREG MAY of Orlando, FL says: "We were on our way to a famuily reunion in Cincinnati and I was sitting in the back seat yacking about EON with my Aunt Rose from Winchester, Ky. Suddenly, we came over a hill on I-75 approaching Ciincinnati and I yelled, "Look! It's The Edge of Night!"
I notice this while I was watching WKRP in Cincinnati
Wow! SO MANY MEMORIES!!!
I only know this because of all the times I stayed home from school because I was sick. I couldn't help but hear this and other soap operas because my mother would watch them one after another. After they were over, she would watch Merv Griffin.
The is such a potpourri of memories for me. Even the announcer talking about tuning in on Monday made me remember that this was a Friday, and that meant cartoons tomorrow (Saturday) and a day off from school.
Undoubtedly the best theme music I've ever heard for any serial! So good to hear it again
Love that piano
Agree
I used to mimic the opening theme music from this show on my grandmothers old upright piano when I was little. Just couldn't get it right. Haven't heard this theme since back then. memories.
Vue U Nice Harrier.
I wonder if Bono ever saw the EDGE of NIGHT
This was probably the best soap opera on television in the 70s. I loved the music and remember Dixie Carter as Brandy Henderson. Thank you for posting this.
Some eerie feelings when I hear that tune
Imagine kids hearing that before a night out ,on Halloween
I remember he used to say This is Hal Simms inviting you to join us each week day for THE EDGE OF NIGHT
You are a jewel for uploading this! I'd forgotten that stern intonation: "The Edge.... of Night" though I don't know how since I practically grew up listening to it--my grandmother LOVED this soap. Thanks again!
The theme scared me at first when I was small I soon got used to it as I aged
+Debra Banks The Perry Mason theme scared me younger.
Hello Brooke, The CBS eye scared me when I was younger
+Debra Banks as did the Grandfather clock on "Captain Kangaroo".
+Debra Banks as did the Grandfather clock on "Captain Kangaroo".
Debra Banks
Haha
in california edge of night was on from 3pm - 330pm in the late 1970's - early 1980's, i graduated high school in 1980, my house was a 5 min bike ride from the school, so i had to hurry to get home by 3pm to watch it, i got really into the show my senior year and into my college years and my parents bought a VCR i would record on the days i worked or had college classes__until it went off the air, it was like losing old friends when the show ended in 1984, i remember being really sad for about 6 months.
Best 15 seconds of TV intros I can remember.I played piano as a child and picked up this unique chord structure and progression,and played it over and over,also trying (but not succeeding) to duplicate the announcer’s speech.
I watched this with my mom. Good show back then.
Same
Sounds of my childhood I always remember that background music my mother was hooked on that soap opera I wish they would bring it back
Yep.
Stunning recreations -- especially THE SECRET STORM. Can hardly wait for more!
The titles alone make interesting book titles, and movie titles
Oh Secret Storm with Christina Crawford, my grandmother never missed an episode of that....
One of them Best Soap Opera Theme Songs.
Dramatic and Orchestral
Loved The Edge of Night and its theme music.
From the show's start in 1956 until about 1980, Cincinnati's skyline stood in for the show's locale of Monticello. In 1980, the Cincinnati skyline was switched for the much larger Los Angeles skyline (which was ironic, given this was a New York based show) and then the skyline was finally phased out for the last years of the show.
I remember as a child back in 1975, I was watching a Cincinnati Reds on TV game and they showed the Cincinnati skyline. I remember telling my mother there were the buildings from The Edge of Night. She said it sure is. At the time Edge was on CBS and the Reds game was televised on NBC.
Proctor and Gamble (the sole sponser of this show) is headquarted in cincinnati.
@@jamesklatt Yes. Little did I know at the time.
Gorgeous visuals of Cincinatti! Now of course, in the original color opening/closings the logo zoomed out more slowly, which made it even more spooky, to me. It's amazing how you were able to capture the variations of the logo, I mentioned in my previous comment. The closing logo is larger, less crinkled and less slanted than the opening logo.
OMG, I had completely forgotten all about this soap. Thank you for posting this.
Wow! My mother used to watch all these soap operas when I was a kid in the 1960s... thanks for sharing!!!
I'm sure the same thing happened in the 1970's and 1980's
I remember this quite clearly from the summer of 1974 when I was waiting for "The Price Is Right" and always liked the ending theme. Thanks for sharing!
The credits read Dixie Carter! Wow! I never knew that she played in soap operas.
I did
Brandy Henderson was the name.
She became Adam Drake's love interest, after his 1st wife, Nicole, was presumed dead. The storyline was quite engaging, to say the very least.
Mauve Mc Guire( Nicole) later appeared in Dove soap commercials
CBS was pitched a new nighttime series called "Perry Mason," but decided it was too involved. So the show was split in two -- the murder mysteries went on to the be Raymond Burr classic, and the soap aspect was rolled into this daytime soap, "The Edge of Night," which also was heavy on the courtroom drama. Watched this beginning in the '60s with Grandma while she did the ironing in the front room. I was hooked.
Not quite. It was always going to be a soap, but weeks before it was to start CBS insisted on giving him a girlfriend. Erle Gardner (Perry Mason's creator) cancelled the deal, and the showrunners created this.
That is why John Larkin (Perry for the previous 8 years on radio) was cast as the lead.
This is CBS!
I guess im much older than everyone who commented about the edge of night but i remember this show from the sixties n in my country the philippines. It wud come on in the afternoon after lunch when i was returning to school. I cud come home gor lunch. I nvr watched it but heard the opening as i was leaving the house i guess my parents watched it and also thought it was a scary show.
I guess the music n title made me think that it was scary show too. Vickydemeo from the philippines
I used to watch this and The Guiding Light, Search for Tomorrow and in the early 70s there was this one nobody remembers now called The Best of Everything.
This was phenomenal! Thank you so much for this wonderful memory!
1:33 - "Stay tuned for _The Price Is Right,_ which follows on most of these CBS stations."
@RER Amazing! Great job! Thanks for posting. It's so vivid. It's like going back in time..
When, as a young boy, I heard this theme, I always knew something " nasty" was going to happen!! Lol. I particularly liked the first modern version ( circa 1981) the best. The montage featured Forest Compton ( R I P ), Ann Flood, Joel Crothers ( RIP ), Jayne Bentzen, Terry Davis, and Tony Craig. It was awesome!
These are nasty times the world is in ,'these days '
This is a classic! Memories forever!
Rabbit,
Excellent work on all 3 titles! Sure did bring back a lot of memories. This recording of the Edge closing has the least announcements and commercial plugs that I have ever heard on line. Take a bow!! Wonderful job!!!!
Wow, that brought back memories of my childhood.
It sure did.
WOW!
Now that's a terrific job with the recreation!Right down to the CBS eye!
I remember coming home from school every day just to watch this and Search For Tomorrow.
What about Secret storm
@@dennismclaurin1487 that one, too. Those were soaps!
Wonderful. It brought tears to my eyes
From what I can tell, based on the plug for "The Price is Right" and the use of the orchestral theme (as opposed to the organ theme), this is from no earlier than April 1974 (when the orchestral theme debuted) and no later than August 1975 (when The Price is Right moved back to a morning timeslot)
I was a toddler and I remember this scaring the crap out of me
The title, as well as the music, is appropriate for the times we're in
It would have been great to see a few more us daytime soaps on tv in the uk. Would have loved to have seen this show. We only had Santa Barbara, Sunset Beach and The Bold And The Beautiful. Sunset was huge here. We got days of our lives for a while, that wasn't popular!
I've since found out that both The Edge Of Night and Search For Tomorrow and Ryans Hope have been shown on tv here in the uk.
Wow! You've gotta luv that creenkly, rather spooky Edge logo. There were actually several variations of the same logo, even within the same opening or closing. Some were larger; some were smaller; some were brighter or darker tones of yellow. The lettering was sometimes more slanted; other times, more straight up and down. Nonetheless, it always went very well with the visuals.
It would be interesting to know how many title cards they had back then, and who created the original logo.
Watching this with mom. Good Times!
Good Times was a big hit,back then;
Alot of comedic, ghetto drama
Why do I remember this!??! I had to have watched it in the 90s or something because I was very very young in the late 80’s
I used to watch this soap back in the day
Same
Looks just like the old Cincinnati skyline look and the "time-delay" look showing the daytime skyline segueing into night! Edge had this in 1967(after which it had the diagonal band of darkness moving across the screen from the start in April 1956 to Septemeber 1967)
Awesome work, RabbitEarsRedux! Very well done!
Geez...this theme song takes me back to childhood..though the show was in B&W when my mom watched it.
I remember seeing previews and sometime closing credits when I was a kid in the late 70s and early 80s.
I remember my mom watching this 1971+ It was on at 430p, if I remember correctly.....I was just a lite girl. Wow. Thanks for the flashback:)
As an 8 yr old I was scared when that announcer would speak while watching this at my grandparent's house.
jetvette66 I can relate. I have spoken with several friends and persons over the years for who certain television audio and video have been frightening to them as children.
For myself, I used to be spooked by two things especially--the Civil Defense (CD)/Emergency Broadcast System (EBS) tests; preceded by CONELRAD and replaced by Emergency Alert System (EAS), and news bulletins that interrupted regular programming. In fact, I still get a creepy feeling whenever an EAS test or news bulletin interrupts regular programming.
I was also mildly spooked by those announcements preceding program preemptions, in which the announcer would say "(Program title) will not be seen this evening, so we may bring you the following special program. (Program title) will return next week at its usual time." I can't explain why those announcements frightened me--they just did. That is why these things are called "irrational fears." It may also have had something to do with the surprise element of all those program interruptions (even though I came to expect such when watching a TV special, as opposed to an EBS test or news bulletin, which were truly unexpected), plus the fact I was usally alone when watching television, and often it was nighttime or darker in the room (I also had a fear of the dark as a child).
I knew a childhood schoolmate who was afraid of "Mister Clean" in the commercials for the Procter & Gamble household cleanser.
It would be interesting if others reading this could post some of their irrational fears regarding television, of things they remember on TV that especially spooked them (as children, and even a bit as adults).
+gymnastix I could sleep alone in the dark and started school without crying or fears. But the Perry Mason theme when I was 3 or 4 scared the hell out of me. I had to leave the room.
+gymnastix Me too!!!!
That & Perry Mason!!
@@gymnastix W-ell, I liked this version of The Edge Of Night closing a lot better than the original from back in the day... there's just something about a cluster of buildings joined together at sunrise/sunset that makes the image look SO SPOOKY when there aren't any lights turned on in any of those buildings. I guess it started way back in 1st grade. "Edge" was big on ABC at the time, and I'd watch it with my grandmother around the time before cartoons came on right after EON.
Well, when I saw the opening for EON, what gave me the creeps was when that eerie last note would play, as the title rose up from behind the Los Angeles skyline, and the gathering darkness all around that skyline, that did it for me. Even now as an adult I have kind of an uneasy feeling about skylines at night. I know that's kind of strange-okay, VERY strange. But there's just some things that make a lasting impression on us as children....
@Ward Roberts. By the time this episode aired, Hal Simms was the regular announcer. This announcer was not revealed, but he was subbing for Hal Simms that day. Yet, I do agree with you, a Harry Kramer intro here would have been VERY appropriate.
Best soap opera theme, ever. I used to try and play it on piano. Original, unlike Young and Restless.
How Nice!!! I love it!
I was a stoner pothead in the 1970s at the University of Cincinnati. As I was casually watching the little BW TV set in the dorm room, I saw the The Edge of Night intro video sequence of downtown Cincinnati. I’m thinking “whoa, dude, they took away half of the buildings”!
I was tricked…that video sequence was from the 1960s, the newer buildings were not built!!
Digging this HARD!
The Eeddgge..of Night! Aah, childhood memories,
Oh, yes!
Impeccable job down to the fonts! Great attention to details. I hope you do the 70s version ATWT or Another World
@RabbitEarsRedux But somehow, some way, we still managed to get in an awful lot of "TV time" in our childhood and adolescence. No video games, Internet or cell phones then. TV was as good and high-tech as it got.
As "Archie" & "Edith" used to sing, "Those were the days!"
Very cool reproductions, about the best I've seen, of any type..
Hey, Cincinnati!
I noticed that too in how the announcer says EDGE. Very interesting and good voice
My mother used to watch this.
Same. I bet alot them were on the edge of their seat, watching this soap opera. I wonder how popular this show would've been if it aired at night, in prime time---on CBS.
@RabbitEarsRedux - Thanks for your great comments, I appreciate it. And glad to hear you like the WNBC/JFK piece I made. Kennedy was our Congressman and Senator; my mother met him way back then. She had the shows you recreated on a lot and I remember the opening themes to them. Great job on the repros!
love it...I live in Cincinnati
If I recall this was one of the last soaps of the day airing in the late afternoon/early evening.
After school everyday when I was little…..
Thanks, for sharing that, Douglas
This theme song used to scare the hell out of me when I was young and my grandmother watched it.
the best opening was with CBS announcer Harry Kramer. what I love about this video is the ID. "channel 2 New York" that's the way IDs were and WE LIKED IT LIKE THAT. I am sick of the constant promos telling me how great the station is. NO ONE CARES
I love this theme it' makes you just think
@RabbitEarsRedux There was never usually any question of ABC or NBC daytimes when my mom watched. Only later (when a second b&w set entered our home) did my sister & I begin watching "Dark Shadows," then "The Best Of Everything" one summer of its brief run. But by then our mom had died, and we had our first color set.
GREG MAY of Orlando, FL says: "Does anyone remember the ONLY time EON was broadcast without commercials? It was during the early 70's of the Whitney storyline when the murderous Keith Whitney pushed his uncle off the top of the abandoned lighthouse on the Whitney's summer estate. The entire half-hour showed Keith coming across the lake in a motorboat then climbing the spiral stairway of the tower. The only reason P&G and CBS agreed was because EON was #1 in the daytime ratings."
@RabbitEarsRedux This was EXCELLENT work! Excellently recreated, and very true to the original! :) Only one thing, but not a major thing. You had a slight misspelling. The actress who played Phoebe Smith was named Johanna Leister. And a fun fact about her, she teaches at HB school in New York City!
Thx...@RabbitEarsRedux !!
Edge of Night was my favorite soap. Just loved Mike and Sara Carr
arr.
@Ruth Richardson. On "The Edge Of Night" the district attorney Mike Carr's wife's name was Nancy not Sara. As I recall their daughter's name was Lori.
... unfortunately. Only spotty individual tapes saved off-network (by fans or museums or otherwise) might crop up, including what people have uploaded to RUclips. It's sad, but so far, no "magic vault" has been found yet with more of the past available than that. Much of the 'golden age' of Another World is the same way. Somebody out there thought "Pink Lady and Jeff" and "Honey Boo-Boo" were worth saving (???), but mega-classics like Edge and AW -- well, we have what we have for now.
I watched this when I was first married and had my first baby. After that I was too busy.
I was a little boy is in 70's
+310MANRUTH I was already late middle aged man.
@Christopher Hagee And so on......
I remember the announcer mentioning The Price Is Right.
Either or, this was absolutely WELL done! Although you did have a spelling error of one of the actresses names. Phoebe Smith Jamison was played by Johanna Leister. But what is one case of a spelling error, when the whole thing was FANTASTIC? :)
The intro gave that show the appearance of a horror series. I think there was one episode where an escaped gorilla captures a female lead character and holds her captive.
***** I thought it was on that show.
I believe that happened on "Ryan's Hope" with the character Delia.
Seriously??
0:10 In front Gil's Steak and Stein on East 6th Street in NYC, now closed.
Seen at 2:30pm followed by The 30 min. Price is Right at 3pm Match Game 74 at 3:30 and Tattletales at 4pm
Thanks for sharing that
Always wondered why he didn't play organ and piano for other soaps.
Seems like Charles Paul did most of them
@RabbitEarsRedux After supper, summers typically involved kickball, then after-dark marathon hide & seek games, with a good cross-section of older & younger kids. Inevitably someone would hide in her/his house, which was, supposedly, against the rules, and usually ended the game.
@RabbitEarsRedux Did you know that Edge had a band of darkness going from right to left in the 1956-1967 opening and closing sequences of Cincinnati and the announcer was Harry Kramer(later replaced by Hal Simms in 1972)?
Growing up with a soap-opera nutso mother (when she wasn't teaching school in the summer) and three equally wacko sisters who were also soap-opera nuts, this was the only theme that gave me the absolute creeps because the cityscape skyline also reminds of seeing the Empire State building, just when it got dark...hey, I was 8 in 1974...get my point?
How did you get Edge's old logo in the recreation?
I remember from 1983
@Sheri451 Edge used the Cincinnati skyline (where the actual city in this video is) for "Monticello" until the logo/theme change in 1980, then L.A.'s skyline was used till the last logo/theme change.
i vaguelly remember watching the show with my mom when i was really small pre kindergarten and the opening credits and music scared me because it sounded and looked like a horror movie, i didnt get interested in the show until i was 17 yrs old__LOL