Perry Botkin Jr., the prolific film and TV composer, arranger and producerknown for his themes to Happy Days, Mork and Mindy and The Young and the Restless — a tune forever associated with famed Olympic gymnast Nadia Comăneci — has died.
He was 87. Botkin died Monday at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, his publicist announced. No cause of death was provided.
His career spanned four decades and also included work for such other TV programs asLaverne and Shirley, Adam's Rib, The Smothers Brothers Show and Quark.
Botkin's iconic theme for the CBS soap operaThe Young and the Restless was retitled "Nadia's Theme" whenABC'sWide World of Sportsused it in a montage during the 1976 Summer Olympics, where the Romanian Comăneci, then.
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