Soap theme music

This is the theme music to the comedy series "Soap" which aired on ABC-TV from 1977-1981. The show was a weekly half-hour long primetime comedy and its format was similar to that of a daytime soap opera. It aired for four seasons and 85 episodes, some episodes of which were one hour long. (The hour-long episodes were later split in two, yielding 93 half-hour episodes for syndication.) The show was created, written, and produced by Susan Harris. The final four episodes of the series aired as one-hours during the original run on ABC. Each returning season was preceded by a 90-minute retrospective of the previous season. Two of these retrospectives were made available on VHS in 1994. All episodes are currently available on region 1 DVD in 4 separate box sets. In the past, the series has rerun on local syndicated channels as well as on cable on Comedy Central and TV Land. The version of the theme heard here is the "Open recap" cut of the theme, which was used when the events of a previous show were recapped by announcer Rod Roddy at the beginning of the show. This music was composed by George Aliceson Tipton.