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THEY REMOVED ALL OF THE SONGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!

posted 18 years ago by filmsRreel
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Ok, I am PISSED OFF!!!!!

I just grabbed some time to watch a few minutes of "The Fall Guy" complete season one set, and so far THIS SUCKS. I put on a few moments of the pilot film to see if they indeed did edit out Paul Williams WHICH THEY DID and now I am shocked and sickened to see that ALL of the SONGS were removed(at least from the ones that I have seen).

I popped in one of my top 5 episodes "COLT'S ANGELS" where Colt and company join a drugged out biker gang of madmen and madwomen and I discovered that THOSE KILLER BIKER SONGS ARE MISSING!!!! Non-descript music replaces classic songs like The Eagles' "Take it Easy", The Boss' "Born to be Wild" Juice Newton's "Playin' with the Queen of Hearts" and all of the other tunes!!!! I HATE IT!!!!!!!!!! Thank GOD for my mint LPP uncut and unaltered 16mm film prints with the songs intact!

I bet that all of the other songs are missing too....cheap bastards.

One of my favorites was "Poor Poor Pittiful Me" (by Linda Ronstadt) used at the opening of "The Silent Partner."

I wonder if this was done with "Knight Rider", too on DVD?

I guess the bright side is that my uncut and unchanged 96 of the 110 episodes plus unaired pilot movie are now worth more than thye were 48 hours ago when this inferior product was released!

MAN, what a DOWNER!!!!

[–] filmsRreel 18 years ago

I suppose that CHEAP 20th Century Fox didn't want to have to pay the musicians royalties so they just removed the songs and replaced them with CRAP...shameful. They think we are all idiots who won't notice. What a load!

[–] mrenaut-1 12 years ago

Do you know how much it costs to put original songs into films now? Stop whining and just be glad they're on DVD.

The discs would probably cost £200 a set if they included all original music.

People should spend more time watching movies and less time bitching about IMDB spoilers.

[–] w22nuschler 12 years ago

I hate when the original music is removed. Some companies always release the show the way it was originally broadcast. Why release it with different music, who wants that?

[–] orbit991 12 years ago

Yea, that sucks. Same happened to Northern exposure sound tracks, so I passed on the dvd sets and am sticking to my old vhs versions. Btw those rights don't cost that much for old shows, it's a simple case of being cheap as well as worried that to few copies may be sold.

[–] dalerulz_nascar 12 years ago

My "Las Vegas" set doesn't have the original Elvis track in the beginning and "Married With Children" doesn't have the Sinatra tune either. If they paidthe royalties to put them on the series, it should cover the dvds too. I'm sure they paid enough! And like Elvis and Sinatra camps are that friggin broke!

[–] hbk72777 11 years ago

Yeah, what does music have to do with the show?

Like when Eric is driving to the school prom on "That 70's show" with a tornado behind him, his radio is playing "Riding the Storm Out". Yet the syndicated version plays a generic song.

Or on WKRP, where the song is the punchline.

The Wonder Years where the music sets the mood.

Hell, let's put generic music in "the Wizard of Oz" and play muzak in place of "Somewhere over the Rainbow".

[–] persen1 11 years ago

But it becomes problematic, when they actually change the theme of a tv-show, as CBS did with Charmed.
For 8 years people had gotten to know on tv, that a cover version of the 80s hit How Soon Is Now was the theme for Charmed.

But when the 8th season was released on DVD, the theme had been removed for some other not particularly good non rocking instrumental music, because CBS was not willing to pay for an already much cheaper cover version.
Thats cheapness at its worst.

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[–] wrlord2001 10 years ago

You can thank unions for all this.