Whispering Bill Anderson Recalls His 'One Life to Live' Days

Country music legend Whispering Bill Anderson played a fictional character named Bill Anderson on ONE LIFE TO LIVE in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He wrote an blog entry about this time on the soap early last year. It's an interesting read so I thought I would share it here.

Many of you probably never knew, and most who did know have probably forgotten, that I once spent a large portion of three years playing the role of Bill Anderson, country singer, on the daytime soap opera, ONE LIFE TO LIVE.

“Don’t call it a ‘soap opera’,” one of the executives at ABC television told me early in my days on the set. “It’s a ‘daytime drama’.”

OK, so I was once on the daytime drama, ONE LIFE TO LIVE.

I have been mentally revisiting those days from the late seventies and early eighties recently upon hearing the sad news of the passing of two of the actors I worked with. One was Philip Carey, a great character actor for many years, who died at his New York home this week at the age of 83. The other was Clint Ritchie, who passed away at age 70 a few days ago in California.