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The late Quincy Jones made memorable contributions to General Hospital in the early 1980s, providing songs that were used for not one but two of the show’s most popular pairings – Holly ( Emma Samms ) and Luke ( Anthony Geary ), and later, Robert ( Tristan Rogers ) and Holly. Jones produced the song “Baby Come to Me,” which only hit No. 73 on the Billboard charts when it was first released in April 1982.

Later, GH used it to introduce “widowed” Luke Spencer finding love again with the enigmatic Holly Sutton. The song, performed by singers James Ingram and Patti Austin, swept viewers into Luke’s romance with the English beauty. While viewers heard the tune multiple times a week while watching Holly and Luke, the actors didn’t necessarily hear it as songs are added to scenes after they’ve been shot.



“Music isn’t always played at the time of taping a scene,” Samms tells TV Insider. “Though sometimes a little would leak through the camera crew’s headphones, so we’d have an idea of what was accompanying our performances.” “When I first started on the show, I would record the shows and watch back what I had done, so I was aware that ‘Baby Come to Me’ had been chosen as Luke and Holly’s theme,” Samms adds.

Even before Laura’s ( Genie Francis ) return in late 1983, which we firmly believe would have separated Luke and Holly, fate had already intervened. After Luke was presumed dead in an avalanche, his best friend Robert encouraged a pregna.

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