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  • I didn't like Dark Shadows, but me Mum did. This song brings back memories of me life back than. Oh how I miss life in the 70's. How grand things were then. That America is long dead and gone. I wish I could go back before PC computers, cell phones, cable/satellite TV, Terrorists, Obama, MTV,

  • @remuswolfrocket

    I liked the tender years too

  • @inthe11thhour yes, I miss the 70 and 80 and even as a baby the late 60 but we must live on. We can cherish the past and our family. I loved DS and Barnada and Quentin

  • @remuswolfrocket - I'm with you! I wish I could go back to the 60's/70's. The best music ever, The Beatles, JFK, great TV shows, life was so much simpler. OH how this brings back memories! I watched House of Dark Shadows on TCM last night and I scared MYSELF cos I knew everyone's NAME!

  • Great video for the song! I used to watch this after school and was "in love" with Barnabas Collins!

  • OMG...I'm faling in love all over again ..

  • omg...I'm faling in love all over again ..

  • @spunkeys1 me too!

  • I remember when they played this song on the radio, it was a big hit back in 1969. I used to race home from school to watch Dark Shadows. Barnabas and Quentin were my first celebrity crushes. I still look at Quentin today and sigh. What a handsome man and what a beautiful song!! Those were the days!

  • I was so excited when I started junior high school that I would get home in time to watch "Dark Shadow", but that was the season it got cancelled.

  • I think it was called "Shadows of the night"

  • I too raced home from school to watch "Dark Shadows" at 3pm. My cousin and I sat GLUED, infatuated with the characters, not knowing we were on our first soap opera addiction. Quentin's Theme and it's words haunts me still. So sad at his demise but always will Quentin be remembered.

  • @loydkoh826 glad you like it !

  • How I loved Dark Shadows. It was so different. It was aired at 3 p.m. in my time zone and my school didn't let out till 2:55. I used to race home where my older sister would have the TV warmed up and ready to watch. I'd always ask, "What did I miss?" I got home at 3:05.

  • @TheSweetdoggie

    glad  you like it I love it!

  • @TheSweetdoggie ME TOO!!!!! lolol 3 PM and I would RUN home from school!

  • @dotbishop Lol me too i also ran home from school!!

  • @TheSweetdoggie

    I remember doing the same thing, only had three channels

  • @TheSweetdoggie

    same

  • what memories I use to rush home from school to see this show every day I loved it, this brings back alot of Memories to me thanks for posting

  • I have a copy of the original sheet music for this song and it is in superb condition. If anyone is interested, let me know with a reply this post and contact information.

  • I was feeling really bummed out until I heard this song <3

  • Someone posted that in 1969, a 45rpm 7 inch vinyl music disk cost a dollar? Good grief! That is at least $8 in todays money! That makes the iTunes store look like the bargain basement of the information super buy-way! LOL!

    Seriously, I post here, to ask--

    Anyone else hear the eerie similarity between "Quentin's theme", "76 Trombones", and "Goodnight, My Someone"? It is like these three melodies are all variations on each other. I wonder-- Who plagiarized on whom?

  • @CaseyJ747  Quenin's theme is a waltz and Dan Curtis went thru alot to use it, it was all legal , now as for the others I don't know.....................peace georgette

  • Thanks for your reply, Georgette!

    When I first heard "Quentin's theme" playing on the TV, I thought it was a parody of "Goodnight, My Someone", which is also a waltz. (I did not follow Dark Shadows.)

    So--Dan Curtis had trouble using that song? How so? I heard that the composer, Robert Cobert wanted to write for Curtis, & wrote all the background music, as an original score. Did Meredith Wilson complain of plagiarism? Perhaps, after Cobert got a Grammy nomination. LOL!

  • @CaseyJ747 Wrong, in the late `60's, a 45 was about 65 cents!! A few years earlier they were only 35 cents. They didn't go to $1.00 until the late `70's or better.

  • @CaseyJ747

    thank you for posting, I'll always have a special place in my heart for Dark Shadows...................peac­e georgette

  • @CaseyJ747 Wow, now that you mention it, I just tried singing "Goodnight My Someone" over "Quentin's Theme" and they fit nicely. Not exactly the same tune, but very similar. I love stuff like that. "76 Trombones" is of course the same tune as "Goodnight My Someone" only in march time instead of waltz time. It took me decades to figure that out, even though they're juxtaposed in the show. Anyway, I still have my 45 of "Quentin's Theme", and I played it over and over when I was thirteen.

  • @KarenSDR My 45 had the words sung on the flip side, did yours? I still hear them when the music plays and I see Quentin at the top of the stairs, his hand cupping, I think it was Caroline's, cheek. Thrilled me then, thrills me now!

  • @CaseyJ747 The top 45s were about 59 cents in 1969 where I lived in NY. They reached 99 cents in the mid-1970s. The best-selling Lps were often $2.99-$3.99. The good old days....

  • @CaseyJ747 -- "76 Trombones" & "Goodnight My Someone" are both the same melody for good reason. Both are from "The Music Man" (1957) and Frank Loesser has the lead characters each sing the same song w/different lyrics to foreshadow to the audience that the two are meant to be together.

  • @rcriis Oops - Not Loesser, I meant Meredith Willson. :)

  • Thank you :)

  • I wonder if David Selby ever played Abraham Lincoln. He would have been perfect.

  • it's short but one of the greatest musical pieces ever

  • OMG!!! Vampires.  Gotta love em. vampire lovin'.

  • I bought this on 45 in 1969 (singles were a dollar). I used to watch the show because i could cut the last hour of school (gym). by then the show had already lost its zing. I'll tell you when it was good, though. In just the few weeks before barnabas showed up and for several months thereafter. It was a national sensation. it was UNBELIEVABLY GOOD for a soap opera with no money for sets etc. it was SCARY.  happy memories everyone.

  • @zyxquark This was a fairly substantial hit, and it reminds me a BIT like a cross between "101 Strings" and the "Neon Philharmonic"...

  • Dark Shadows was the ONLY soap/slop opera I watched when it was on in the mid-60's to early 70's. I was just entering middle school at the time. I like the soap opera better than the short-lived 90's series.

  • Does anyone remember the original name of this song? My grandmother knew it from her childhood and I used to know it, but I have long since forgotten it. My grandmother has been dead for decades now.

  • @CalJennings it might have been called shadows of the night,even though i alway's thought it was a original piece by "Robert Cobert".

  • i love show and the music so much

    quentin's theme is so beautiful that i

    can get so lost in it

  • what memories i use to rush home from school everyday to see this program and Quentin was my favorite, Barnabas was 2nd wish they would bring reruns back Love it

  • brings back such happy memories of watching Dark Shadows I don't think i missed an episode- and it is a great tribute to DaviD Selby Thanks for posting this video.

  • I have the Dark Shadows Album somewhere down in my basement from when i was maybe 12,...(I am now going to be 50 in July..yeah,im old...)On the album is this song,with lyrics..the words are so beautiful..Part of it goes says something like "shadows of the night,calling u to me.."

  • Yes, still beautiful.

  • Charles Randolph Grean...an anomaly even in the summer of 1969. Will there ever be music this good again?

  • This song reminds me of the indoor roller skating places when I was a kid. They would play such mellow organ tunes .

    U.W.

  • yes I remember

  • Imagine playing this song backwards!!

  • still beautiful

  • @inthe11thhour ,

    allways beautifull !

  • 40 years later and it still makes me sad, another great memory. thanks

  • your very welcome

  • I love this song...ahhh..the memories! Just curious, the flip side of the original 45 was the song "At the Blue Whale". Do you have a copy of it you could download? I love that song too. Thanks for the great recording of this. I put it in my ipod!

  • I use to

  • @Wickedpet It is on youtube- just search "At the blue whale"

    I liked it too

  • Thanks for posting this, I was a kid when at 4 oclock every weekday evening all of "our gang" of kids would stop playing and go inside to watch "Dark Shadows". We didn't know it was a soap opera, we just knew that we liked it. This song I always thought was so beautiful! It brings back great memories.

  • 2 oclock then 3

  • @westridgerunner I so relate to your comment. My mother was a champion worrier, but she never had to have any doubt where I would be ever day after school. I would be watching "Dark Shadows." Eventually I got her to watch this with me, and I think think she fell in love, at least a bit, with Quentin (my father was an absent one, almost from my birth). I loved this song, and still do. And such great memories, that so many of us, now older "Shadow Children," can come here to share.

  • I hope everyone gets a little laugh out of this, So here goes :))) I was just a little kid, When Dark Shadows was on the air .. I so loved this song, That my mom, Bought this for me on a 45 record .. I brought it in for " Show and Tell " When I was in Kindergarten ... And that was the last I saw of it, As it was stolen ... Well, Im 45 now, And still love this song :)))

  • @jamminjoe44 I am so glad you love it!

  • I'm sorry someone stole it!

  • I know right, And to think someone could steal a record from a little kid :p ... Thank you again for posting this song :))) lots of great memories for me, As I grew up watching Dark Shadows :D

  • @jamminjoe44 ,

    I don't laugh, they stole your kid's treasure !

  • @jamminjoe44 I am also sorry it was stolen. It is a great song. I hope you now have it on CD or something.

  • @zibbyzubb ... Awww Thank you, I dont have it on CD, But I added this into my youtube favorites!! Im so glad that someone took the time to post this song :))))

  • @jamminjoe44 I'm also 45 years old and just heard this song for the first time today (as far as I remember anyway) on a local radio station. I love the harpsichord and other instruments. When I was starting kindergarten 40 years ago now, the hottest record was a Sesame Street album. A classmate got it, then I did (begged my mom for it, I'm sure), then another classmate did.

  • @jamminjoe44 I'm also 45 years old, and as far as I know, I heard this son for the first time today on a local radio station. I love the harpsichord and other instruments in the background.

  • @jamminjoe44 I still own mine--a little warped, though. along with a bunch of beatles singles. I'll let you borrow it sometime providing you don't leave it in the sun.

  • @jamminjoe44 I'm not laughing. Somebody stole your 45. Your special, precious song. I still love it too, and I am over 45. What a great show. Quentin and Barnabas, but all the regulars became friends, somehow, to millions of kids. What a gift that was, in the middle of the Viet Nam tragedy. Isn't it great to be the original shadow people, the DARK SHADOWS PEOPLE, here? Take care....

  • @ja3399 I remember seeing all sorts of things about them in 16 magazine! Damn near every issue had pictures of Barnabas and Quentin. And The Monkees (especially Davy Jones) Sajid Khan (I had NO idea who he was and only just found out as few months ago that he was a recording artist!!), Peter Noone,.etc., all the heartthrobs of the day. I probably still have a bunch of back issues!!

  • @jamminjoe44 That sucks!! I've had a few things stolen from me in HIGH SCHOOL!! If you look around at a used record store, or any record store that sells old vinyl, you can probably still find a copy of this! It's on Ranwood Records and it's by The Randolph Greane Sounde (yes, it's spelled that way). Try eBay, too.

  • Thank You For Posting; Harpsichord rockin' the were-wolf mutton-chops, OI!

    Cheers!

    Valkyrie Ziege Mourne

  • @12Zwolf your very welcome

  • Thank You, and you're very welcome, good music is good music.

    Cheers!

    Valkyrie Ziege Mourne

  • Thanks so much for posting this. That is a beautiful song. I remember watching Dark Shadows as a kid.

  • your very welcome

  • I remember the summer of '69 when I watched Dark Shadows for the first time. Quentin was playing this music. It was as hauntingly beautiful then as it is now! Quentin was my favorite character. Thanks so much for posting this wonderful memory for me!

  • @jglarance I remember to it was an innocent time, sometimes I wonder where that time went

  • Truly... the million dollar question. Where O where???

    I have a great question. Would any of us lived our lives one moment different had we known the absolute brevity of time?

  • your very welcome

  • shoot i use to rush home from school just so i could see this show i loved it especially quentin and Barnabas

  • glad you love him!

  • Some of these images look like scenes from the Quentin series of postcards. I still have a few left somewhere. David Selby was splendid in that role. He is a fine actor and an accomplished poet.  I miss his recitation of "Shadows of the Night". What a treasure he is!

  • yes he is!

  • @ThymeBottle- I wish I could post the link for you here, but David's recitation of it is back on YT now. I think if just type in "Quentin Dark Shadows", it should come up on the list of available videos.

  • Thank you so much for the information; I shall do that. Mr. Selby remains a favorite in any role but, as Quentin, he was exceptionally suited as the vulnerable and lovable rogue. I never saw him as a werewolf, just a man with a very hairy problem--he did look mighty fine once his own sideburns kicked in.

  • Great job! Great tribute to David Selby, one of my favorite actors.

  • glad you enjoy it

  • W O W - the memories this and the

    original DarkShadows music brings

    back when I was in the 6th grade

    some good - some bad but all

    great ones to remember

    Thank you so much for posting it

  • your very welcome

  • your very welcome

  • There used to be a clip on here (which YouTube sadly took down) of David Selby reciting the lyrics that went along with this song. I believe it was set to 1897-storyline scenes. It would be nice if someone could find that and put it back on here. David's recitation was quite nice.

  • I agree

  • Oh be still my heart...I love you Quentin! <3

  • yes he is very hansome

  • Great production. Great pictures of David Selby. Thanks for posting!

  • thank you very much

  • your  very welcome

  • I loved the original Dark Shadows series.

    thank U

  • you r very welcome

  • your very welcome

  • Wow. I love this. 500 stars. Great work.

  • thank you so much, glad your back with me.

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