GUIDING LIGHT-- 1975 opening (1977 version)

This is the 1977 version of the opening that was introduced in 1975. The female voice has been replaced by a string section by this point. This version would run though until almost the end of 1981.

This GUIDING LIGHT's best opening ever, btw!

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• guiding
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• soap
• opera

[earlzagurl4u]

If love can save the world, whey couldn't love save Guiding Light?

[softwater88]

@jess4metoo . . . I agree with you totally. I stopped watching 'GL" in 1981 when Procter & Gamble re-did their soaps and tried to make everything like ABC's hugely popular General Hospital, and All My Children. I just dabbled in the soaps after. Everything is now reality-show themed. Usually with people who aren't even interesting enough to make me sick ! ! There aren't even any made-for-TV movies anymore. For TV I just watch the news, and PBS.

[ncjuppiter]

is the "emmy" closing credits on youtube?

[gymnastix]

@wtf66611 For the record, though, my mom did get to see the blossoming of that romance between "Mike" & "Leslie,' and that suspenseful murder trial where "Mike" defended nurse "Peggy Scott Fletcher Dillman (later "Fletcher" again, then "Thorpe") in the killing of "Marty Dillman," revealed to have been "Marty's" gang cohort "Flip Malone."

But somehow, even had she lived, knowing my mom, I think she'd have given up on soaps by the time they started to go downhill in the 1990s, as did I.

[gymnastix]

My mother could possibly have lived long enough to have seen the final episode of "Guiding Light," instead of having died before a "Spaulding" showed up in "Spriingfield," or even before getting to see "Leslie Jackson Bauer" become "Leslie Jackson Bauer Norris" and finally marry her true love, "Michael Bauer," thus becoming "Leslie Jackson Bauer Norris Bauer."

[gymnastix]

@wtf66611 Another, probably the most important improvement over the "old days," is that medicine has advanced enough (through medications, transplants & treatments) so many people may live longer with diseases (including some cancers) that would have taken their lives far earlier in the "old days."

My mother, today, could have had a liver transplant, that might have allowed her to see my sister and I graduate high school, which she never got to do, having died at 55 years old in 1970

[soap1919jt]

@kxx46 "The" was offically dropped from the title in 1977, two year after this opening was introduced. This is also the same year that the Spaulding Family was introduced.

[wtf66611]

@classicGL Everything was better back in the old days.

[BestFilmExpert]

It's kinda ridiculous, because even if the replaced soaps with game shows, they would still be losing money and nobody would be watching it anyway... so why not sontinue airing GL? if not they should just shut down CBS daytime completely