Showing posts with label All My Children. Show all posts
Showing posts with label All My Children. Show all posts

Thursday, November 1, 2018

Foreigner "Until the End of Time"

Daytime soap operas helped sell a lot of music. In the case of Foreigner, All My Children tried but couldn't make "Until the End of Time" a big hit. The Foreigner ballad found its way into a 1995 All My Children episode that featured some steamy on-screen heat between Haley Vaughan and Mateo Santos (played by Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos). The duo eventually married in real life whereas "Until the End of Time" was the only hit (albeit a minor one) from Foreigner's disappointing Mr. Moonlight album.

Saturday, September 19, 2015

Goo Goo Dolls - "Name"

When I was an intern at WPNT-FM in Chicago, my boss, Lynne, was the midday personality.  Part of her show featured an "All My Children Update" at 1:50pm.  From noon until the AMC Update, I ran the controls so that she could focus on watching her soaps (what a good gig!).  Since "All My Children" was blaring on the studio speakers, I relied on Lynne's headphones to hear what was going on over the air.  I had never heard the song "Name" from The Goo Goo Dolls when I first played it.  The song has what's known as a false-ending with about 30 seconds before the actual end of the song.  A timid and ignorant Todd hear the false ending and immediately cut to the next element (a recorded promo talking about the music WPNT played).  Lynne was not happy with me.