Very Rare Early 2000 OLTL Opening-Music is slightly different

My auntie in Nigeria who used to live in the U.S. 1988-2003 would separately dub opening credits to other tapes and she had this undated opening from early 2000. It has uses this rare theme I've never heard before.

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• One
• life
• to
• live
• oltl
• opening
• theme
• episode
• december
• 1999
• early
• 2000

[abcsoaps55]

Okay, Okay, upon listening to this again, I can hear the very slight difference in the instrumentation.

[kasey85]

@abcsoaps55 It's very hard to tell. I don't blame you though, as the quality makes the slight differences unnoticeable. I almost didn't post this as I didn't see the difference for a long time, then I relented and uploaded it in late 2008 as I felt people needed to hear this.

[acarmyofone]

HOLY SHIT WHERE DID YOU FIND THIS?!?!?!?!?! Listen, I've seen a LOT of One Life to Live in my 30 years on this earth, but I've never EVER seen that opening! Great find! They're all looking right at the camera!!!

[kasey85]

@acarmyofone Thank you, my aunt used to dub these themes to a separate tape for her baby son who liked it, but later moved back to Nigeria. When she found it 3 years ago in her storage room in Nigeria, so she sent it to me as I'd asked if she had any tapes from the 1990s of soaps. This cast montage ran for 3-4 months from the end of 1999.

[cottoncandyboy]

damn Tea Delgado hasn't aged in 11 years

[abcsoaps55]

I'm not seeing how this is rare? This version of the opening has been all over youtube for years and was the main theme for most of the 2000's into the 2010's.

[reinventingcole]

@jordanda211 Skye was on OLTL while looking for her birth parents...it was a REALLY cool crossover that went from AMC to OLTL and finally to GH

[dladd09]

@GenerationBright Blair Cramer was originally played by an Asian woman named Mia Korph.

[GenerationBright]

Has there ever been an Asian on this show? ._.

[ncdude367]

@kasey85 LOL I am one of those nerds that can pick up those slight differences in music, and I the variation I hear is in the last few seconds when the church steeple is in the background....

[kasey85]

@kasey85 These ToL II openings were nearly obsolete from the web until 2006, when my cousin, CARMAKER1, started his channel & brought them back to the web. During 2005-early 2006, only the current sequence(2004-present) existed. He pointed out to me the musical differences between this & 10 other December 23, 1999-April 2000 opening themes. It didn't sound the regular one nor the occasional alternate theme(11/28/1995, 12/30/99). I believe it's a rare "test" theme that aired prior to April 2000.

[kasey85]

@abcsoaps55 You don't have the original video file of this opening in full, prestine quality. Youtube ruined it through conversion. Using premium headphones or a high quality sound system, with the original video file you will then hear differences in the instrumentation compared to late 1999/early 2000 ones. No, it actually has not been all over Youtube for years, as you have the wrong opening. This is different from the 2004-2012 opening. The 1995-2004 opening music was altered numerous times.