Maureen McGovern: DIFFERENT WORLDS (Theme from "Angie") - 1979 Single Version

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Music: Charles Fox / Lyrics: Norman Gimbel

Let the time flow; Let the love grow
Let the rain shower; Let the rose flower
Love, it seeks; Love, it finds
Love, it conquers; Love, it binds

We come to each other from different worlds
Drawn to each other by the love inside of us
We give to each other our different worlds
Long as we can do it
Life, we're gonna breeze right through it

Let the time flow; Let the love grow
Let the rain shower; Let the rose flower
Love, it seeks; Love, it finds
Love, it conquers; Love, it binds

We reach for each other from different worlds
With love for each other that will stand the test of time
We're up to the challenge of different worlds
With this love inside us
There is nothing can divide us

Let the time flow; Let the love grow
Let the rain shower; Let the rose flower
Love, it seeks; Love, it finds
Love, it conquers; Love, it binds
Love, it seeks and Love, it finds
Love, it conquers
Love, it binds-ahhhhhh
Love, it seeks; Love, it finds
Love, it conquers; Love, it binds

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Maureen McGovern sings the single version of "Different Worlds," the bouncy theme song from the TV series, "Angie" (ABC-TV, 1979-80). This song peaked at #18 on the charts.

Maureen had already recorded the popular theme songs for the 70s movies THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE ("The Morning After"), THE TOWERING INFERNO ("We May Never Love Like This Again"), and SUPERMAN ("Can You Read My Mind?") before she recorded "Different Worlds." She was later mentored by singer/songwriter Mel Torme, and went on to sing in the New York club/cabaret scene and to star on Broadway. She continues to perform and record.

Photos are from Maureen's website:
http://www.maureenmcgovern.com/

Video is from the Season 1 opening credits of "Angie," over which "Different Worlds" was heard.

Audio from "Tube Tunes, Volume Two - The 70s and 80s" (Rhino Records, 1995).

Song written by Charles Fox & Norman Gimbel.
(They also wrote the theme songs for "Happy Days," "Laverne & Shirley" and "Wonder Woman";
Fox also wrote the "Love Boat" theme with Paul Williams).

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"Angie" was a sitcom about a working-class waitress (Donna Pescow) who meets and marries one of her customers, a rich doctor (Robert Hays, who would soon star in the 1980 movie satire "Airplane"). The show was quite popular in its first season, but surprisingly lost its audience in its second (and final) season.

Pescow was a well-known star at the time, having just co-starred opposite John Travolta in "Saturday Night Fever." After "Angie," she went on to play daytime TV's first lesbian character on "All My Children."

Her TV mom, Doris Roberts, would go on to greater success in the 90s as Ray Romano's overbearing mother Marie on "Everybody Loves Raymond."

Debralee Scott, who played Angie's sister, had previously appeared on "Welcome Back Kotter" (as Hotsie Totsie, where she, too, played opposite John Travolta) and on "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" (as Mary's sister).

Debralee's life took a tragic turn in 2001 when her fiance, New York Port Authority Police Officer John Dennis (J.D.) Levi, died in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center:
http://www.legacy.com/Sept11/Story.aspx?PersonID=120526&location=1

In 2005, Debralee collapsed and spent several days hospitalized in a coma. She awoke and was discharged, and then died in her sleep at home several days later. She was 52. RIP.

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[OceanKingNY]

150,000 views!

Thanks to everyone for supporting Maureen's song, and my little video.

And a Happy July 4th Weekend to all....

[lordarion1]

After watching this video, I sighed so long that the wind was knocked out of me! I am 46 years old and was in my early teens when this came out. Man, did I have a crush on Donna Pescow and DebraLee Scott!!! Thanks for letting me relive a special time in my life. Now I've got to go on Facebook and see what my old friends are up to...

[OceanKingNY]

@lordarion1 Glad you liked this little trip back to the Swinging 70s. Donna Pescow has continued to act over the years. But sadly, Debralee Scott passed away in 2005. She led a difficult life after her fiance, a Port Authority police officer, was killed at the WTC on 9/11. RIP.

[OceanKingNY]

100,000 views! 

Thanks to all of you for supporting this song and my little video!

[murraymae]

@BrickLaneBetty Ok! and also John McCormacks 1928 I hear you calling me!

[murraymae]

Everyone remembers this-even people who barely remembers the show-because of the great vocal! Really a great recording, in spite of the disco track!

[writerforlifeify]

@coachsteve Those 70s theme songs can echo in your mind's ear foreverrrrrr.....hahaha. On the other hand, not even ONE current tv theme tune comes to mind. My favorite themes were Wonder Woman, Three's Company, Lavern & Shirley, Brady Bunch, Love Boat, S.W.A.T., Happy Days, Roadrunner, Jeffersons, Maude, Flinstones, Bj & the Bear, Baretta, Chips,......

[coachsteve]

@OceanKingNY Back then, TV show theme songs were full fledged songs - most of which received a fair amount of airplay. Adding to what you stated about the "theme songs" of today's shows is that the songs have absolutely nothing to do with the show they're attached to. Psych, HIMYM, Big Bang, and maybe a few others today actually have one and guess what? They're decent songs and are attached to hit shows. Hmm... maybe there's something to that.... ;>)

[coachsteve]

@lordarion1 Right there with ya my brother. Same age and same crushes back then. I still, to this day, can not understand why Angie was cancelled. Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE I've ever discussed that show with says the same thing. I have yet to find someone from our age group who knew about the show and didn't like it. One of the great things about the 70's TV shows was their theme songs. I can spend waaaaay too much timne on YT playing and singing along with those great songs.

[loveu1ish]

as soulful as maureen mcgovern could get,and think that's fantastic!

[ibernalq]

just amazing song, amazing voice, amazing arrangements...

[BrickLaneBetty]

@murraymae ummm anything by Ella!

[murraymae]

A perfect vocal.There are not many. Clliff Edwards When You Wish Upon A Star is one- Judy Garland's If We Forget You-Toni Braxton- UnBreak My Heart-

this Maureen McGovern is another. Anyone else know of any others?

[childofthemarshalsea]

@OceanKingNY And from what I've read, an autopsy done on her body could not determine a cause of death. May her memory be eternal.