Trivia / Bless the Beasts & Children

• Breakaway Pop Hit: The film version spawned one of the more convoluted examples. The score by Perry Botkin, Jr. and Barry De Vorzon has one particular piano/orchestra-based underscore piece that plays during Cotton's Dream Sequence at the start of the film, appropriately called "Cotton's Dream". Two years later, Botkin recorded a slightly rearranged version that was used as the Instrumental Theme Tune for The Young and the Restless. Then in 1976, Wide World Of Sports used the song to score gymnast Nadia Comăneci's floor routines in their highlights of that year's Summer Olympics (Comăneci didn't actually use the music herself). This Revival by Commercialization led to "Cotton's Dream" getting renamed "Nadia's Theme" and getting released as a single, hitting the Billboard Top 10 in the US. Ultimately the music is still associated more with The Young and the Restless than anything else.