After viewing an episode of Dark Shadows on television, the song "Quentin's Theme" caught the ear of Charles Randolph Grean. 

 

"Quentin's Theme", was composed by Bob Cobert, the splendid musical composer and arranger of the Dark Shadows television series from 1966-1971. 

 

It was indeed a pleasure to have had the opportunity to meet Mr. Cobert at the 2005 D.S.Hollywood Weekend.

 

 

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Mr. Grean wrote the lyrical composition, "Shadows of the Night". Both titles were featured on "The Charles Randolph Grean Sounde" album.  It was also his first hit record (under his own name) in 1969.

And the rest is... history!    

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I began writing poetry as a young child and in the summer of 1997, my parents presented me with an old box of childhood mementos.  What I found amongst the Tiger Beat/16 Magazines, circa 1969-70, was a scribbled poem written when I must have been 11 or 12 at the time.  

It wasn't until 1998, I discovered that the 'mystifing' poem was none other than....

"Shadows of the Night".  

 

 

I DEEPLY regret that I did not take the time, nor the opportunity to meet with Mr. Grean in his living years.

He passed away on December 20, 2003 at the age of 90.

Photo courtesy of 

Bob Issel

 

 

 

 

Shadows of the Night 

"  Quentin's Theme "

 

 

 

 

Shadows of the night

Falling silently

Echo of the past

Calling you to me

 

Haunting memory

Veiled in misty glow

Phantom melody

Playing soft and low

 

In this world that we know now

Life is here, then gone

But somewhere in the afterglow

Love lives, on and on

 

Dreams of long ago

Meet in rendezvous

Shadows of the night

Calling me to you

 

   

Charles Randolph Grean 

(1913-2003)

Copyright  2000

 

 

 

 

 

 

Various photos of the late

Charles Randolph Grean

 

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Photos courtesy of

Bob "Bobubas" Issel