Another favorite of mine is Another World. Here is one such opening from 1982, with the late Bill Wolff doing the sponsor VO for Ivory
As I've said a few times, nobody could say "And now, the continuing story of Another World." like Bill Wolff. One of the better soap announcers of all time.
Another TD fact- in the 60s and 70s- Mid-program breaks in those years often featured the Colgate-Palmolive logo (C-P inside a circle) superimposed over a hospital scene still, with the late Mel Brandt saying "The second half of The Doctors is brought to you by..."
Another well known voice was Ken Roberts, the daily voice for CBS’s Love of Life and The Secret Storm- American Home Products (Aerowax, Black Flag, Freezone, etc.) owned both soaps and its executives felt Roberts brought the proper setup and sendoff tones
to its dramas. Dan McCullough on ATWT...
Listening to the closing, i notice that Simms's voice changed a lot when he did Edge Of Night. He seemed more somber doing GL than EON. To me, it didn't sound like Alan Berns for sure.
Bill Wolff's voice pretty much was the same up till he retired. Mel Brandt's voice got deeper over time, i...
Hal Simms was the announcer during the years that The Guiding Light used as its theme music an adaptation of "Romance from Wieniawski's Violin Concerto # 2 in D Minor." Alan Berns became The Guiding Light's announcer, a position he would hold until the spring of 1997, before the "Romance" piece...
Alan Berns started with GL in the early 60s, no? it sounds like him
(go to 2:30 in clip.)
Since he says "The Guiding Light has been presented" it sounds like him.
Something that i heard on an aircheck of AW, which you don't hear these days was an announcement by Bill Wolff that
"due to the illness of Charles Baxter, the part of Fred Douglas is being played today by Whitfield Connor." That's one thing i miss about soaps these days....
If i remember, he was the second oldest person associated with AW(Virgina Dwyer being the other.) Also, both Wolff and Dwyer were on the very first show in 1964. I wonder how old Carol Roux is, since she's still living...
The original AW theme played on the organ by Clarke Morgan (1964 - 1975): "Another World Theme"
and the one that was performed on the air as a duet by Crystal Gayle and Gary Morris ("(You Take Me Away To) Another World") were the two themes i like.
My favorite AW themes by the way
and this one, which i grew up with, and was my favorite(although my grandmom might disagree with me, because she liked the orignal Charles Paul theme as played on the organ by Clarke Morgan better...)
There are some holy grail moments that are wiped such as
Rachel tells Alice that Steve is her baby's father.
The wedding of Missy and Bill
The debut episode of Another World in Somerset
Pat shoots Tom Baxter.
Walter, driving in his car on his way to John's office hallucinates and has an...
It is a crime that NBC wiped so much from their daytime shows of the 1960s. And the voices that came along with them, like Bill Wolff, Mel Brandt, Kenny Willams, Don Pardo, Bill Wendell, Wayne Howell, Jay Stewart, etc.
I just recently wrote a essay about him and original AW organist Clarke Morgan. Here is what i wrote on YouTube:
When i first listened to the audio snippets of AW, I almost immediately noticed that Clarke Morgan really did such a good job "scoring" AW. And i became aware that each note he...
I'd guess so.
4:00 was when Somerset aired in pattern on NBC, so maybe NBC insisted they clear Somerset at the "in pattern" time. Once Another World moved to a hour, WYFF paired AW with Star Trek, and it was a winning combination.
The NBC station WYFF/4 in Greenville/Spartanburg/Asheville made the same mistake too. They tried running the soap opera Somerset at 4, and the station manager got complaints from Star Trek TOS fans too!