Thanks to the wonders of Youtube. I am able to tracked down many old songs that I came to like from my childhood days. One of which is Nadia's Theme. It was a piece of music composed by Barry de Borzon and Perry Botkin, Jr.
The melody was originally composed by the American duo as incidental music to the 1971 movie Bless the Beasts and Children and was originally titled "Cotton's Dream." Two years later, Botkin wrote a reaaranged version of the piece for the American soap opera The Young and the Restless. The show debuted on March 26, 1973 (wikipedia).
It was only during the late 70's that I came to hear this masterpiece. My mother was an ardent radio drama series fanatic at that time when we don't have a television set yet. I could always hear this song being played in between drama sequences as it fades slowly in the background. Malungkot 'yong melody. Parang matutulala ka kung papakinggan mo s'ya. Pero at the same time nakaka-relax din the longer you listen to it.
Back then I don't know what was it called. I guess it was the least of my concern, I am too busy running around the neighborhood of Sampaloc District. But the melody got stucked on my mind since then, until just recently that I came upon this Youtube channel and saw this song among the uploaded videos. And when I played it on, YAHOOoo!
I immediately sent a private message to the channel owner and I asked for the mp3 file of the song. He was kind enough so I got it the following day. Thank you very much kabayan :)
At ngayon ko lang nalaman na Nadia's Theme pala ang title ng kantang ito. Natanong ko tuloy sa sarili ko kung sino ba itong si Nadia at nagkaroon pa s'ya ng sarili n'yang theme song.
It turned out that the melody was renamed "Nadia's Theme" after ABC television network Wide World of Sports lent the music for the montage of Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci's routines during the 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics, but Nadia never performed her routines using this piece of music (wikipedia).
About one month after the 1976 Olympics, the song was released as a single by A&M Records. It soared up to number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart by December of 1976, in part because of its association with Comaneci. The following year it received a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement (wikipedia). O di ba panalo talaga.
You can download the music from here and see the Videography below:
1971 - Theme from Bless the Beasts and Children
1973 - Theme from The Young and the Restless
1976 - Nadia Comaneci Montage, Montreal Summer Olympics
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