He wrote what came to be known as "Nadia's Theme" with
Perry Botkin Jr. It soared to #8 on the U.S. pop charts charts in December of 1976, due in part
to Romania's award-winning Olympic gymnast
Nadia Comaneci choosing it
as her personal theme. It originally appeared as "Cotton's Dream" in
the film
Bless the Beasts & Children (1971). Later, it was acquired
by the creators of
The Young and the Restless (1973) as the theme of the
daytime soap opera. De Vorzon originally teamed with Botkin and two others, and formed the musical group Barry & the Tamerlanes in 1961.
Their song "I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight" hit #21 on the US pop
charts in 1963. In 1983 a California jury awarded De Vorzon
$241,000 in damages against A&M Records because it had failed
to credit him as the co-writer of "Nadia's Theme" on first pressings of
the single.
