They may be your favorite soap stars, but that doesn’t mean that they haven’t got a skill you’re not keenly aware of or that contributed to a genre which might surprise.
Which Soap Star Was It?
All of these actors are either an alum of a long-ago classic – like All My Children – or they are currently starring on, or an alum 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. And all of them have had some type of involvement with action superstar Sylvester Stallone. But only one can say that they have an original song on one of the actor’s movie soundtracks.
But who can that actor be? Was it Michael B. Jordan (ex-Reggie Porter Montgomery, AMC), Bobbie Eakes (ex-Macy Alexander, BB), Finola Hughes (Anna Devane, GH), Justin Hartley (ex-Fox Crane, Passions), or Melissa Claire Egan (Chelsea Lawson, YR)?
Michael B. Jordan
Jordan didn’t contribute a song to a Stallone-starring film. He did, however, work opposite the acting giant in the film Creed and its sequel – both continuations of Stallone’s mega-popular Rocky Balboa film franchise.
Finola Hughes
Hughes worked under the auspice of Stallone during the filming of the 1983 dance musical Staying Alive (the sequel to the 1977 drama Saturday Night Fever) but she didn’t contribute to the film’s soundtrack. Hughes – a graduate of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats – was all about the dancing.
Justin Hartley
Hartley isn’t a singer/songwriter with a single on a film soundtrack. However, he did work opposite Stallone in multiple episodes of NBC’s This Is Us where he plays Kevin Pearson and Stallone played a slightly exaggerated version of himself.
Melissa Claire Egan
Between her first and second stint as YR’s resident grifter turned heroine, Egan traveled – both domestically and to foreign lands – starred in her very own Hallmark Christmas movie, and joined a band called Canal Street. But though she provides vocals for the group, she isn’t included in a compilation of music used in a Stallone picture.
Bobbie Eakes
Eakes and her all-girl rock band, Big Trouble, can be heard on the soundtrack album for the 1987 blockbuster Over the Top. Their song, All I Need Is You, occupies space number five on the playlist.
So, if you guessed that the soap star in question was Bobbie Eakes, then you were absolutely correct!
