I was a huge fan of the ABC soaps in the 70's and 80's so hearing this closing theme of GH that I always loved is great--the melody was going around in my head for some reason and I knew I might find it on YouTube, it brings back so many memories, thanks for uploading it.
@cherberrie Wow I could have written that! I very well remember that the world came to a stand still every weekday from 1-3 pm at my grandmother's house while she watched One Life to Live and General Hospital. I actually remember that she disliked President Carter because he liked to hold televised press conferences during that same time and preempting those shows! Whenever I hear those themes my mind races back to her and those "innocent" days.
I wish I can watch the Afterschool Special that was coming on after this. I like the After School Specials, but it was messed up because I read that ABC wouldn't show "The Edge of Night" wish followed "GH" at 4:00 because of the specials.
the memories this brings back. I was getting home from school in the 80s when this was on tv. Just to think that GH is probably coming to an end in a few years along with the rest of the soaps.
@msmithstud According to most reports I read,GH could possibly cease to exist as early as May.Daytime drama has been on such a short leash for way too long now.
@landrykkb i read today that Y and R are losing ratings among women 18-49 years of age. So it's just a matter of time before theres nothing left but talk shows and reality shows
You have some great classic gh videos. I really have enjoyed viewing them. I have desperately for years tried to locate episodes from when the show broadcasted in the 45 minute format from1976 to 1978. Any chance at All you have any footage or maybe point me to anyone who might? Greatly appreciate it! Thanks
As I often tell people, if I had the certain footage they were looking for, I would have posted it by now. :) These 1975-79 GH credit sequences I got specifically from other people; however, if you simply search for "General Hospital" followed by, for example, "1977", you will see plenty of episode clips from the end of the Tom Donovan era and the beginning of the Gloria Monty era, that were probably recorded by one of the only 12 people that owned a VCR during that decade!
This was back in the days of "Dr. Noah Drake", "Leslie Webber", "Robert Scorpio", "Bobbie Spencer", "Tony Jones", and the REAL GH Cast! I used to watch it during the "Cassadine" story. I also rember "Duke and Anna". After the early 90s, I stopped watching it after Lucy Coe lost her pet Duck.
Yikes, some of the WORST hack "writers" in the history of soapdom: Anne Howard Bailey, Leah Laiman, Thom Racina, Charles Pratt, Robert Guza, Robert J. Shaw, etc. No wonder the show sucked at the time!
@landrykkb, well, that depends on what you consider its "peak". It was still riding high on a wave of popularity that had been initiated by great writers Douglas Marland and Pat Falken Smith, who had created and wrote about characters the audience cared about, and the show had also attracted a large teenaged audience who found amusement in the low-brow, campy, adolescent stories the hack writers of the 1980s chose to tell. The show was highly rated, but creatively and intellectually bankrupt.
@GodCreatesGays2 Although Luke & Laura had returned in 1984 or the year before,it was the likes of John Stamos(Blackie) & Jack Wagner(Frisco) who kept the young females tuned in around this time.I don't think they were mature enough to care about the writing then.LOL
@landrykkb, true, the young girls who drooled over Blackie and Frisco had no interest in the integrity of the writing. It's just as shame, because before the hacks took over, Douglas Marland and Pat Falken Smith wrote intelligent, adult drama that ALSO included plenty of young hunks to keep the audience drooling. If only that combination--erudite writing and attractive romantic leads--had continued.
The original building is in Los Angeles but is it still a hospital? I used to love when this credit showing the whole cast would play and didn't zip by like a VCR in fast forward as most did. So many good characters and beloved actors who played them, many gone but they live on as good memories in our minds. Great seeing this again although I still kept a few of my old tapes from that time as I couldn't part with them.
i always watched G.H when i would come home from school when i was little.when i grew up i lost interest.G.H just doesn't seem as good as it was back in the 1980's
Back when the Cassadines and Luke and Laura and Scorpio and Anna Devane, Sean Donnelly, Tiffany, Bobbie Spencer, Rick Springfield were on, I used to watch this everyday.
Sorry but I missed who Barry Williams played on here. I had to scroll back a few times but I still couldn't get it. Could anybody let me know who he was and how long he was on there? I started watching in 84. Sounds like a great cast.
This is very awesome...I remember this as a kid before they changed it. The upcoming announcement of the ABC afterschool special (nevermind most of them sucked) was nice. Pre Oprah, at least in LA.
what possessed you to check it out. Yes the theme definitely went with the show. give me a holler and tell you what a great show it was(but can't tell you anything great after 2006 as that's when I tuned out.)
I LOVE the closing theme to General Hospital, although I never watched the show. It's the epitome of everything that was great about 80s theme music when I was little.
Too bad noone has the complete theme. All that's available are truncated versions that leave off the little crescendo at the end.
I have personally edited together the complete on-air version of "Autumn Breeze" comprised of two copies of the closing. I plan to use it on a future parody video project of mine, so definately look out for that!
If you search for "GH Feb 1983 Credits", you will see a version of the closing that picks up the theme from the middle, and runs to the very end. It was an affiliate's over-dub to block out network announcements, it seems.
@Braenchild82 I didn't make it a point to watch GH in those days,but Mom always watched it and this closing theme always meant the news was coming on and/or suppertime is near.
Gosh, does this theme bring back memories. Even though Faces of the Heart was a better theme, this was when GH was at it's zenith. Thanks for posting.
Yes, but the ABC Afterschool Specials always aired in its slot periodically. I posted a GH closing from March 1979 which did advertise EON coming up after it, if that's what you want to see in terms of GH sequences..
oh dear. That can't be a good sign when your show's being pre-empted on a regular basis like that. I think by that point so few ABC affiliates were airing EON (something like 62% percent) that ABC didn't mind pre-empting it for after-school specials periodically.
This opening makes me cry seriously. It does. It reminds me so much of my gram. I used to watch it with her when I was a kid. She has since passed away and this just reminds me of her.
AMEN! Me too, my Grandmother watched this one everyday as it was one of her "stories" that she had to see. This 1976-93 theme will always make me think of her.
This brings back such great memories from being at my Grandma's house as a little kid or at home with Mom on her day off. I love the plug for the ABC Afterschool Special too!
I was a huge fan of the ABC soaps in the 70's and 80's so hearing this closing theme of GH that I always loved is great--the melody was going around in my head for some reason and I knew I might find it on YouTube, it brings back so many memories, thanks for uploading it.
Nighthawk5210 3 days ago
@cherberrie Wow I could have written that! I very well remember that the world came to a stand still every weekday from 1-3 pm at my grandmother's house while she watched One Life to Live and General Hospital. I actually remember that she disliked President Carter because he liked to hold televised press conferences during that same time and preempting those shows! Whenever I hear those themes my mind races back to her and those "innocent" days.
in2runningks 1 month ago
I wish I can watch the Afterschool Special that was coming on after this. I like the After School Specials, but it was messed up because I read that ABC wouldn't show "The Edge of Night" wish followed "GH" at 4:00 because of the specials.
coolwafferman 2 months ago
brings me back to my childhood. the closing credits were my cue to start my homework.
noodleann9 2 months ago
the memories this brings back. I was getting home from school in the 80s when this was on tv. Just to think that GH is probably coming to an end in a few years along with the rest of the soaps.
msmithstud 2 months ago
@msmithstud According to most reports I read,GH could possibly cease to exist as early as May.Daytime drama has been on such a short leash for way too long now.
landrykkb 2 months ago
@landrykkb i read today that Y and R are losing ratings among women 18-49 years of age. So it's just a matter of time before theres nothing left but talk shows and reality shows
msmithstud 2 months ago
@msmithstud I'd much rather an all-out game show revival than another overkill of talk and reality shows.
landrykkb 2 months ago
You have some great classic gh videos. I really have enjoyed viewing them. I have desperately for years tried to locate episodes from when the show broadcasted in the 45 minute format from1976 to 1978. Any chance at All you have any footage or maybe point me to anyone who might? Greatly appreciate it! Thanks
KMMADEY 8 months ago
As I often tell people, if I had the certain footage they were looking for, I would have posted it by now. :) These 1975-79 GH credit sequences I got specifically from other people; however, if you simply search for "General Hospital" followed by, for example, "1977", you will see plenty of episode clips from the end of the Tom Donovan era and the beginning of the Gloria Monty era, that were probably recorded by one of the only 12 people that owned a VCR during that decade!
VaultMasterDBT 8 months ago
Did I just hear the "ABC After School Special" oh my gosh I loved watching those shows!!!!!!!!
beachandsunandsand 8 months ago
@beachandsunandsand Me too!
landrykkb 2 months ago
This was back in the days of "Dr. Noah Drake", "Leslie Webber", "Robert Scorpio", "Bobbie Spencer", "Tony Jones", and the REAL GH Cast! I used to watch it during the "Cassadine" story. I also rember "Duke and Anna". After the early 90s, I stopped watching it after Lucy Coe lost her pet Duck.
kd4adv 9 months ago
Yikes, some of the WORST hack "writers" in the history of soapdom: Anne Howard Bailey, Leah Laiman, Thom Racina, Charles Pratt, Robert Guza, Robert J. Shaw, etc. No wonder the show sucked at the time!
GodCreatesGays2 10 months ago
@GodCreatesGays2 Actually,GH was at its peak still in 1984.
landrykkb 2 months ago
@landrykkb, well, that depends on what you consider its "peak". It was still riding high on a wave of popularity that had been initiated by great writers Douglas Marland and Pat Falken Smith, who had created and wrote about characters the audience cared about, and the show had also attracted a large teenaged audience who found amusement in the low-brow, campy, adolescent stories the hack writers of the 1980s chose to tell. The show was highly rated, but creatively and intellectually bankrupt.
GodCreatesGays2 2 months ago
@GodCreatesGays2 Although Luke & Laura had returned in 1984 or the year before,it was the likes of John Stamos(Blackie) & Jack Wagner(Frisco) who kept the young females tuned in around this time.I don't think they were mature enough to care about the writing then.LOL
landrykkb 2 months ago
@landrykkb, true, the young girls who drooled over Blackie and Frisco had no interest in the integrity of the writing. It's just as shame, because before the hacks took over, Douglas Marland and Pat Falken Smith wrote intelligent, adult drama that ALSO included plenty of young hunks to keep the audience drooling. If only that combination--erudite writing and attractive romantic leads--had continued.
GodCreatesGays2 2 months ago
The original building is in Los Angeles but is it still a hospital? I used to love when this credit showing the whole cast would play and didn't zip by like a VCR in fast forward as most did. So many good characters and beloved actors who played them, many gone but they live on as good memories in our minds. Great seeing this again although I still kept a few of my old tapes from that time as I couldn't part with them.
satoop 10 months ago
Man seeing this brings back great memories!
xxashyy 1 year ago
As a kid I would always hear this ending and think how sad and depressing it sounded. But now that I'm grown, I love it! Brings back good memories.
QueenNostalgia 1 year ago
@QueenNostalgia I hear you on that. It sounds so sad, then it sounds like happiness is coming.
sb358 10 months ago
@QueenNostalgia Yes it does!!
sb358 9 months ago
Jeez that's a big freakin' hospital.
TheTallMan35 1 year ago
i always watched G.H when i would come home from school when i was little.when i grew up i lost interest.G.H just doesn't seem as good as it was back in the 1980's
curvy71 1 year ago
Is that Bryan Ross I just heard in the voiceover?
Cyclops236 1 year ago
Back when the Cassadines and Luke and Laura and Scorpio and Anna Devane, Sean Donnelly, Tiffany, Bobbie Spencer, Rick Springfield were on, I used to watch this everyday.
kd4adv 1 year ago
they never have after school specials on anymore.
khamdoun 2 years ago
GenXorcist1976- I'd say moving down the ladder...way down. It's a wonder he hasn't been fired yet!
formersoapfan8492 2 years ago
Sorry but I missed who Barry Williams played on here. I had to scroll back a few times but I still couldn't get it. Could anybody let me know who he was and how long he was on there? I started watching in 84. Sounds like a great cast.
formersoapfan8492 2 years ago
This is very awesome...I remember this as a kid before they changed it. The upcoming announcement of the ABC afterschool special (nevermind most of them sucked) was nice. Pre Oprah, at least in LA.
moxiesoda35 2 years ago
I never watched this show but what an awesome theme song it had!
mikeyb2049 2 years ago
what possessed you to check it out. Yes the theme definitely went with the show. give me a holler and tell you what a great show it was(but can't tell you anything great after 2006 as that's when I tuned out.)
imachildofthe80s8089 2 years ago
wow, that was a throwback
pecantancutie 2 years ago
i miss general hospital like this oh well i guess that's the way tv shows are
earnhardtlivesE 3 years ago
I LOVE the closing theme to General Hospital, although I never watched the show. It's the epitome of everything that was great about 80s theme music when I was little.
Too bad noone has the complete theme. All that's available are truncated versions that leave off the little crescendo at the end.
Braenchild82 3 years ago 5
I have personally edited together the complete on-air version of "Autumn Breeze" comprised of two copies of the closing. I plan to use it on a future parody video project of mine, so definately look out for that!
If you search for "GH Feb 1983 Credits", you will see a version of the closing that picks up the theme from the middle, and runs to the very end. It was an affiliate's over-dub to block out network announcements, it seems.
VaultMasterDBT 3 years ago
you must've heard a lot about it. This show was more than a "soap opera."
imachildofthe80s8089 2 years ago
@Braenchild82 I didn't make it a point to watch GH in those days,but Mom always watched it and this closing theme always meant the news was coming on and/or suppertime is near.
landrykkb 2 months ago
"Produced by Gloria Monty"......hell yeah!
SharonTateFan4ever 3 years ago
Gosh, does this theme bring back memories. Even though Faces of the Heart was a better theme, this was when GH was at it's zenith. Thanks for posting.
OldGHfan 3 years ago 2
I notice Michele Marsh in the credits there. Is she in anyway the same Michele Marsh who was a news anchor at WCBS and WNBC in New York?
gameshowguy2000 3 years ago
This one takes me back...also reminds me of summers in Alabama with my grandparents...I get sentimental listening to this one!
kittywilloughby 3 years ago 3
Didn't The Edge of Night come on after General Hospital in 1984?
sheff06 4 years ago
Yes, but the ABC Afterschool Specials always aired in its slot periodically. I posted a GH closing from March 1979 which did advertise EON coming up after it, if that's what you want to see in terms of GH sequences..
VaultMasterDBT 4 years ago
oh dear. That can't be a good sign when your show's being pre-empted on a regular basis like that. I think by that point so few ABC affiliates were airing EON (something like 62% percent) that ABC didn't mind pre-empting it for after-school specials periodically.
freeek04 3 years ago
I would wish ABC would bring back the "Daytime to Remember" I would die to see this theme again
faceseyesweirdhumor2 4 years ago 2
I agree. I wish they had made Daytime to Remember a regular series before AMC after Port Charles ended.
jmsweat 3 years ago
This opening makes me cry seriously. It does. It reminds me so much of my gram. I used to watch it with her when I was a kid. She has since passed away and this just reminds me of her.
cherberrie 4 years ago 7
AMEN! Me too, my Grandmother watched this one everyday as it was one of her "stories" that she had to see. This 1976-93 theme will always make me think of her.
judanmcgregor 3 years ago 4
@judanmcgregor This theme was an update of the 1976 version.
MaxMikeLatino 1 year ago
This is the only version of Autumn Breeze ever used on GH.
VaultMasterDBT 1 year ago
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@judanmcgregor This theme was the 1984 update of the 1976 version.
MaxMikeLatino 1 year ago
@judanmcgregor It made me cry too. There was just something so sad about it.
sb358 10 months ago
@cherberrie I felt the same way.
sb358 5 months ago
This brings back such great memories from being at my Grandma's house as a little kid or at home with Mom on her day off. I love the plug for the ABC Afterschool Special too!
ajwrangler1977 4 years ago 2
Classic theme ,recaptures that whole 80's feeling again...thanks 4 memory lane...
Promethazinewcodeine 4 years ago
Or closing rather
lavb5474 4 years ago
I'd go back to this opening
lavb5474 4 years ago
On today's GH Who plays Tracy Quartermane
ghostchantxx 4 years ago
Jane Elliot, the only actress to have ever played Tracy, dating back to her first stint in the late 70s!
VaultMasterDBT 4 years ago
Actually, Christine Jones played Tracy while Jane was on maternity leave. I think it was 1980 or 1989
cranker4lyfe 2 years ago
Barry Williams of the regulars who were not seen, Ie John Beradino, Rachel Ames, Emily McLaughlin, Peter Hansen
faceseyesweirdhumor2 4 years ago
I see some familiar names in the closing credits from General Hospital.
There's John Stamos, Bob Hastings, Chris Robinson, Stuart Damon, any other names?
pernelldh 4 years ago
I didn't realize Bob Guza was writing it 23 years ago too... wow. He's really moved up the ladder!
GenXorcist1976 4 years ago
Unfortunately! :(
postdebut149 4 years ago