Beauty and the Beast:Theme/The First Time I Loved Forever!

"Beauty and the Beast" was and is one of my favorite series of the 80s, which stars Linda Hamilton and Ron Perlman, two greats on television and later on in the movies! In addition to the series, I have always loved and liked the music, the poetry and the song that this television series contains! Here I bring you in the first video, the original intro/theme (totally instrumental and without Ron Perlman's narration), the second video is a poem narrated by Vincent (Ron Perlman) and the extended intro/theme song, beautifully sung by Lisa Angelle! About the series: Beauty and the Beast is an American fantasy-drama television series that first aired on CBS from September 25, 1987 to August 4, 1990. Creator Ron Koslow's updated version of the fairy tale has a double focus: the relationship between Vincent (Ron Perlman), a mythic, noble man-beast, and Catherine (Linda Hamilton), a savvy Assistant District Attorney in New York, and a secret utopian community of social outcasts living in a subterranean sanctuary. Through an empathetic bond, Vincent senses Catherine's emotions, and becomes her guardian! *** Lyrics for the poem/song(With excerpts from the poem "Somewhere I Have Never Traveled, Gladly" by the American poet E.E. Cummings): "Poem: "Somewhere I have never traveled Gladly beyond any experience Your eyes have their silence And your most frail gesture of things Which enclose me But which I cannot touch Because they are too near." Song: The first time I loved forever Was when you whispered my name And I knew at once you loved me For the me of who I am The first time I loved forever I cast all else aside And I bid my heart to follow Be there no more need to hide And if wishes and dreams Are merely for children And if love's a tale for fools I'll live the dream with you Poem: "or, if your wish be to close me I, my life will shut, very beautifully Suddenly, as when the heart of this flower Imagines the snow carefully, everywhere descending". Song: For all my life and forever There's a truth I will always know When my world divides and shatters Your love is where I'll go Poem: "I do not know what it is about you that closes and opens. Only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses. Nobody, not even the rain has such small hands!" Beauty and the Beast/Republic Pictures Distributor/Worldvision Enterprises(original)/CBS Television Distribution/1987 Music/poem/song/Lee Holdridge/Don Davis/William Ross/E.E. Cummings(Poem)