Adoration for soap stars comes in all forms – be it a simple loving gaze, a request for an autograph or photo, or a more concrete form of expression like a specially composed poem or ballad.
Which Soap Star Was It?
All of these actresses are either an alum of a long-ago classic – like All My Children – or they currently star in, or are alums of, one of the four remaining daytime dramas – The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of our Lives, General Hospital, and The Young and the Restless. However, only one of them can boast that they were immortalized in (eponymous) song.
But who can that actress be? Was it Susan Lucci (ex-Erica Kane, AMC), Kelly Rippa (ex-Hayley Vaughan Santos, AMC), Katherine Kelly Lang (Brooke Logan Forrester, BB), Kristina Wagner (Felicia Scorpio Jones, GH), or Genie Francis (ex-Genevieve Atkinson, YR)?
Susan Lucci
Although there is no song titled Susan Lucci, there is one named after – and about – the character she played on AMC. Urge Overkill, the alternative rock group whose songs have been featured on the Melrose Place and Pulp Fiction soundtracks, showed their love of all things Erica Kane by including a song about the much-married minx on their debut album Saturation.
Katherine Kelly Lang
Though she has yet to write a song about either Brooke Logan or Lang, Tamar Braxton is such a fan of the BB character that she named her firstborn son Logan Vincent!
Kristina Wagner
Two songs by Jack Wagner – All I Need and Lady of My Heart – wound up being big hits with music lovers in the early 1980s. And though the latter tune was used as the love theme for Jack’s Frisco Jones and Wagner’s Felicia, it had not been written with the actress in mind nor was the title her name.
Genie Francis
Despite being perfectly titled and timed to coincide with Francis’s (first) return to the series that made her a household name – that would be General Hospital for the uninitiated – Christopher Cross’s ditty Think of Laura was not written with either the actress or the character Laura Spencer in mind.
Kelly Ripa
Ripa was honored with a personalized song written by the members of Cowboy Mouth, a New Orleans, Louisiana-based rock band, back in 2008. The number appeared on their eighth studio album, Fearless, and it was performed before its muse on the March 13, 2008, episode of Live!
So, if you guessed that the soap star in question was Kelly Ripa – “Kelly Ripa, Kelly Ripa/If she were a crime I’d commit her/Kelly Ripa” – then you were absolutely correct!
