I remember my mother chasing us out the room, but whenever she got entrenched in a sceen we would sneak back in and sometimes sit by her. She wouln't realise we were there until the commercial break, then she would "the show isnot for you, are you too young" hahaha Love the book!!!
PROBABLY REMINDED YOU OF THE ADAMS FAMILY.. THE HAND IN THE 80'S BELONGED TO MY SISTER IN LAW.. SHE WAS PAID.. TWELVE THOUSAND DOLLARS A YEAR FOR THAT 2 ND SCENE...
the chew will suck i'm not watching a DAMN thing on ABC or Disney anymore i'm (not even syd. program or local programing and/or news on my abc affliate) not even watching GMA, ABC news with Diane Sawyer, Nightline, or Jimmy Kimmel LIVE!
ALL my news will come from NBC ♪NBC let's all be there!♪
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I so love the Soaps back then, old episodes of 60's, 70's ,80's and some of the 90's, thank God for Soap Net, Soaps are not what they used to be, writers and Producers have tried every idea, now they are vulgar,boring and watered down, no respect, everything has been tried already.
I first started watching AMC regularly as a kid with my mom back in 1986 I think, so I remember this them very well. It played up until 1988, and then changed in 1989 with the falling faces, which got revised several times over the years.
Ther have been a lot of grandma posts for this theme. Mine used to watch this too and when I came to stay with my grandparents for the summer I knew it was 1 o'clock when this theme played. Brings back memories!!!!
In the early days, the opening billboard (hand opening the book, and, no, it wasn't Agnes Nixon's hand) was taped anew for every single episode. It was eventually filmed while Rosemary Prinz was still working on the show, and then transferred to tape daily through telecine. My friend, John Kelly Genovese (whom I haven't seen in many years, and whom I would like to get back in touch with) had a soap magazine with a story about the "hand model," entitled, "They Call Her Miss Page Turner."
I guess when they tried to make the show more youthful. But they had a good thing going with great characters like Liza, Jessie, Jenny, Greg, and Angie. That was proof that they needed to write good material. Now AMC is on life support. Erica Kane, one of the greatest roles in the history of the soaps, seems more like an aging hooker. Susan Lucci should have walked away from this role years ago.
Yeah. I remember that. Everybody talked about this show in those days, it was really big. I'd hear people on the phone saying Erica was wrong, I can't believe she did that. I would think, "who's Erica?"
Who's Adam?" Slowly I caught on to why this was so big. Poor Adam. The women are always falling all over him, but he always manages to mess it up. What is he doing with Annie Rayan. That aint gonna work. I would have chose Erica.
remember the break after part one? the actors would freeze, and the camera went to a still photo of the book. Then the announcer would say (I think the announcer was Hugh Franklin who played Phoebe's husband Charles Tyler) "All My Children will continue ..... in a moment".
love it. it's simply the best opening (after the original "As the World Turns" opening). Yes, it is Agnes Nixon's hand. I was shocked in 1990 when they went to a new theme. It was the beginning of the end. AMC sucks now.
Yes, once they went to a new theme it was the end of an era. When my favorite soap, The Edge of Night, switched to a techno-style theme, it felt like the end. And it was since the show was cancelled there after. The produers of Y&R were smart to bring back the original theme.
OMG--9400 ernie,, u hit the nail on the head,,lol,,,this is the first time i hear thhis intri i 20 yrs and all i thought of is my grandmother ,,,,curled up under her arm on the couch,, as soon as i heard this i started to cry,,thinking of grandma,,,thnk u so much for the memories.
As did I! I hear the new one every afternoon & up until a few days ago, I literally had NO idea that it was the AMC theme! The minute you heard that beautiful orchestra, you knew what show was coming on, not anymore!!!!!
This so reminds me of my grandmother.I would get home from school everyday and run to her house for snacks(she lived next door) and she would always be watching this show,she is gone now but this will always remind me of her.
@9400ernie My grandmother and great grandmother watched me as a child while my mother worked. Both were loyal viewers of AMC OLT L and GH... even Ryan's Hope and Loving when they were on. I miss them both terribly and have often come just to look at and listen to these old opening... it even brings tears to my eyes sometimes. So sad to learn of the cancellation of these beloved shows. Thank God for youtube and precious memeories~
So nostalgic. My grandmother has an old photo book that has the same font as the one on here. Same kind of border and flowers in all the corners, though. The first page just had the word Memories but with the same font and color. I found it in the basement some years ago and I thought about my childhood and her. Watching this, I can even smell the old book and my grandmother's old house from when I was a kid. thank you, wedge, for giving me that back for a moment.
@ksb78 Just listening to that opening and seeing that book. My goodness, it just really does bring back a flood of memories--where you lived, when you got married, when your children were little babies. I can see myself in that first little apartment getting all the housework done so I could watch my show. If life could have remained so simple! So sweet and innocent!!
lol my grandmother hated THAT DAMN bookl as she called it but she loved to watch this show. thank you for posting and giving me funny memories of gram.
@njlee8785 do u know what would be even more scarier...if that the book opened by itself with no hand. THAT'S scary. Sorry, i hope i didnt mean to scare you
All My Children was the best soapopera of that day along with One Life To Live. I was a big fan in those days of Erika Kane and Vicki/Nicki. There can never be another All My Children. When the book opened it added to the feeling of a continuing story. In those days, you would couldn't help wondering what was going to happen next episode.
LOL same here. I aways thought the page inside the book looked weird too. Acually the whole intro gave me weird vibs as a kid right down to the lamp on the right.
wow this takes me back to wheen i was in school and i hed my mom tape it for me if you have the early opening thems for general hospital and one life to live for the 1980s upload thanks.
This was when All My Children was the best. I haven't watched since the 90s. Every once in a while I tune in for a couple of minutes and can't believe what it has become. Sad, but the show I used to love is gone. I wish SoapNet would re-run the classic 80s episodes.
Back when themes weren't synthesized. I love the violins and the bells.
millenniumman75 4 weeks ago
I just love this opening! A classic!
gwailo97 2 months ago
I remember my mother chasing us out the room, but whenever she got entrenched in a sceen we would sneak back in and sometimes sit by her. She wouln't realise we were there until the commercial break, then she would "the show isnot for you, are you too young" hahaha Love the book!!!
evertoniar 5 months ago
Agree. This reminds me of coming home from grammar school at lunch with my Mom watching at the kitchen table. I actually watched it myself
zforce32 5 months ago
PROBABLY REMINDED YOU OF THE ADAMS FAMILY.. THE HAND IN THE 80'S BELONGED TO MY SISTER IN LAW.. SHE WAS PAID.. TWELVE THOUSAND DOLLARS A YEAR FOR THAT 2 ND SCENE...
eresfsfsfsf 6 months ago
@eresfsfsfsf $12,000.00 would have been a lot of money at the time,
landrykkb 5 months ago
This should be used for the show's final week on ABC.
SharonTateFan4ever 7 months ago 5
the chew will suck i'm not watching a DAMN thing on ABC or Disney anymore i'm (not even syd. program or local programing and/or news on my abc affliate) not even watching GMA, ABC news with Diane Sawyer, Nightline, or Jimmy Kimmel LIVE!
ALL my news will come from NBC ♪NBC let's all be there!♪
Digifan23 7 months ago
Wouldn't it be amazing if they played this opening on AMC's final ABC episode this Sept? I'd be crying before we got out of the starting gate...
GenXorcist1976 8 months ago 5
Classic..
SharonTateFan4ever 9 months ago
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I so love the Soaps back then, old episodes of 60's, 70's ,80's and some of the 90's, thank God for Soap Net, Soaps are not what they used to be, writers and Producers have tried every idea, now they are vulgar,boring and watered down, no respect, everything has been tried already.
cdsouthsidec1 10 months ago
I hope they use this open for the final episode ... such a classic.
staytunedfor 11 months ago 2
@staytunedfor I agree, I wished it had never been replaced.
8283doc 9 months ago
I'm sooo upset this show is being cancelled!!!! I was seriously ready to cry when I found out! I just got hooked back on it again too!
missohio83 11 months ago
All My Children. Will be gone this September 2011. We'll never forget the show especially the lovely Susan Lucci as Erica Kane. R.I.P. AMC 1970-2011
yogafan6500 11 months ago
AMC was just cancelled...I'm really distraught right now...
tymcbee 11 months ago 2
Some of you people are nuts! A simple hand opening a book, the book itself, or a lamp on a table "creep you out"????? Get a major grip already!
TimsDale4ever 11 months ago
I first started watching AMC regularly as a kid with my mom back in 1986 I think, so I remember this them very well. It played up until 1988, and then changed in 1989 with the falling faces, which got revised several times over the years.
Romeofud 1 year ago
Me too whose hand this that
hsdentertainment 1 year ago
OMG....i cant handle this LOLOLOL
phildo77 1 year ago
Ther have been a lot of grandma posts for this theme. Mine used to watch this too and when I came to stay with my grandparents for the summer I knew it was 1 o'clock when this theme played. Brings back memories!!!!
Tonia682 1 year ago
This is when All My Children was the SHIT!!!!!!!!!!
vegasbaby92 1 year ago 4
All those snow days off school are coming back to me.
mlh53057 1 year ago 3
simple elegance. i would get home from school and watch this show!
darrren12000 1 year ago
Do you have the extended version? I don't remember watching with my grandma, even though she did watch AMC, I watched it with my mom.
amcfan100 2 years ago
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neilprtr 2 years ago
me to - I thought of my grandmother
drc8844 2 years ago
Me three. Mine was obsessed with this show.
manhizzy 2 years ago
I clicked on this, heard the opening music...and immediately thought of my grandmother.
Apparently half the people who posted also thought of their grandmothers...lol
wonderful memories.
does anyone remember the very somber announcer who, at each commercial break would bellow:
"All My Children, will continue...(he'd pause for like 5 freaking seconds)...IN A MOMENT".
mnmcv1 2 years ago 3
@mnmcv1 I remember that pause too, its funny how your phrazed it lol
SumOne8Steve 1 year ago
In the early days, the opening billboard (hand opening the book, and, no, it wasn't Agnes Nixon's hand) was taped anew for every single episode. It was eventually filmed while Rosemary Prinz was still working on the show, and then transferred to tape daily through telecine. My friend, John Kelly Genovese (whom I haven't seen in many years, and whom I would like to get back in touch with) had a soap magazine with a story about the "hand model," entitled, "They Call Her Miss Page Turner."
Soapluvva 2 years ago
I guess when they tried to make the show more youthful. But they had a good thing going with great characters like Liza, Jessie, Jenny, Greg, and Angie. That was proof that they needed to write good material. Now AMC is on life support. Erica Kane, one of the greatest roles in the history of the soaps, seems more like an aging hooker. Susan Lucci should have walked away from this role years ago.
adelgado75 2 years ago 2
AMC ruled everything back in the day esp with Erica/Silver, Greg/Jenny/Liza/Jesse/Angie, Brooke/Tom et al. It was - and is - a very well done show.
1504viewer 2 years ago
Yeah. I remember that. Everybody talked about this show in those days, it was really big. I'd hear people on the phone saying Erica was wrong, I can't believe she did that. I would think, "who's Erica?"
Who's Adam?" Slowly I caught on to why this was so big. Poor Adam. The women are always falling all over him, but he always manages to mess it up. What is he doing with Annie Rayan. That aint gonna work. I would have chose Erica.
dbrooks12009 2 years ago
remember the break after part one? the actors would freeze, and the camera went to a still photo of the book. Then the announcer would say (I think the announcer was Hugh Franklin who played Phoebe's husband Charles Tyler) "All My Children will continue ..... in a moment".
east215 2 years ago
love it. it's simply the best opening (after the original "As the World Turns" opening). Yes, it is Agnes Nixon's hand. I was shocked in 1990 when they went to a new theme. It was the beginning of the end. AMC sucks now.
east215 2 years ago 2
Yes, once they went to a new theme it was the end of an era. When my favorite soap, The Edge of Night, switched to a techno-style theme, it felt like the end. And it was since the show was cancelled there after. The produers of Y&R were smart to bring back the original theme.
adelgado75 2 years ago 2
OMG--9400 ernie,, u hit the nail on the head,,lol,,,this is the first time i hear thhis intri i 20 yrs and all i thought of is my grandmother ,,,,curled up under her arm on the couch,, as soon as i heard this i started to cry,,thinking of grandma,,,thnk u so much for the memories.
llafnair 2 years ago 3
I grew up on this jingle, almost every afternoon
publica74 3 years ago 3
As did I! I hear the new one every afternoon & up until a few days ago, I literally had NO idea that it was the AMC theme! The minute you heard that beautiful orchestra, you knew what show was coming on, not anymore!!!!!
landyachtfan79 2 years ago 2
This so reminds me of my grandmother.I would get home from school everyday and run to her house for snacks(she lived next door) and she would always be watching this show,she is gone now but this will always remind me of her.
9400ernie 3 years ago 36
@9400ernie My grandmother and great grandmother watched me as a child while my mother worked. Both were loyal viewers of AMC OLT L and GH... even Ryan's Hope and Loving when they were on. I miss them both terribly and have often come just to look at and listen to these old opening... it even brings tears to my eyes sometimes. So sad to learn of the cancellation of these beloved shows. Thank God for youtube and precious memeories~
missmegnificant 11 months ago
So nostalgic. My grandmother has an old photo book that has the same font as the one on here. Same kind of border and flowers in all the corners, though. The first page just had the word Memories but with the same font and color. I found it in the basement some years ago and I thought about my childhood and her. Watching this, I can even smell the old book and my grandmother's old house from when I was a kid. thank you, wedge, for giving me that back for a moment.
ksb78 8 months ago
@ksb78 Just listening to that opening and seeing that book. My goodness, it just really does bring back a flood of memories--where you lived, when you got married, when your children were little babies. I can see myself in that first little apartment getting all the housework done so I could watch my show. If life could have remained so simple! So sweet and innocent!!
Lorsonline 5 months ago
Nice vid, Hey does anyone know where I can get caught up on the last 12 years?
Sunkincid 3 years ago
Wow this is great.
chax1971 3 years ago
I remember this AMC opening theme fondly when I was a kid. It was very basic compared to some of the other soap openings in the 80s.
jmsweat 3 years ago 4
you know the hand who opened this book used to scare me as a kid? I don't know why, but it freaked me out.
njlee8785 3 years ago 14
lol me too
y2kmalone 3 years ago
lol my grandmother hated THAT DAMN bookl as she called it but she loved to watch this show. thank you for posting and giving me funny memories of gram.
michellec0791 3 years ago
Alice Nixon, the creator of All My Children. Thank her...it was HER hand.
jazzybee1 3 years ago
me three!
rockergirl83 3 years ago
@njlee8785 It never scared me in fact that was the first AMC opening I saw when I was a kid.
Cyclops236 1 year ago
@njlee8785 The hand that opened the book belongs none other than the series creator, Agnes Nixon.
Farrah300 10 months ago
@njlee8785 do u know what would be even more scarier...if that the book opened by itself with no hand. THAT'S scary. Sorry, i hope i didnt mean to scare you
pixiemagic45 10 months ago
@njlee8785 thats cause the hand is disembodied, which is why it freaked you out. sorry for my analysis ;)
carlsm95 10 months ago
@njlee8785 LOL! Dark Shadows opening used to scare the Hell out of me...
TriviaGeek463 5 months ago
All My Children was the best soapopera of that day along with One Life To Live. I was a big fan in those days of Erika Kane and Vicki/Nicki. There can never be another All My Children. When the book opened it added to the feeling of a continuing story. In those days, you would couldn't help wondering what was going to happen next episode.
debro2009debro 3 years ago
this opening is better than the one they have now. I like the classic openings.
adelgado75 3 years ago 2
i always wondered who's hand that was.
slydawg221 3 years ago
LOL same here. I aways thought the page inside the book looked weird too. Acually the whole intro gave me weird vibs as a kid right down to the lamp on the right.
billybassman21 3 years ago
memories memories.......
rockergirl83 3 years ago 3
Jesse and Angie are back.
east215 4 years ago
wow do you have the 1980s opening theme for gh and oltl too if you do up load them.
lisacnt 4 years ago
thats the one I remember
Dave82481 4 years ago 3
wow this takes me back to wheen i was in school and i hed my mom tape it for me if you have the early opening thems for general hospital and one life to live for the 1980s upload thanks.
lisacnt 4 years ago
wow this is graet do you have the early 1980s opening themes for gh and oltl if you do upload them.
lisacnt 4 years ago
My very favorite AMC theme of all!!!
JohnOnTV 4 years ago 2
This was when All My Children was the best. I haven't watched since the 90s. Every once in a while I tune in for a couple of minutes and can't believe what it has become. Sad, but the show I used to love is gone. I wish SoapNet would re-run the classic 80s episodes.
CLU7 4 years ago