Romancing the Songs

One of my pet peeves is the omission of certain songs from the theatrical release of a movie from home video. It's a money matter, but you would think when they originally fork over for the song in the first place they would anticipate it.
I can understand music rights being a problem for SCTV or WKRP but even then the
contracts should have allowed for future media.

In some cases, maybe a song is omitted because producers don't like it.
Or maybe they had a feud with a performer. I don't know the story.
I just like many of the songs.

The fargin’ funny theatrical release of Johnny Dangerously (1984) had this song over its opening and ending credits, but the VHS and subsequent presentations have omitted it.
It’s the only reason I don’t have this movie on DVD – the trouble of being sure I’m buying a version that has it restored. The video should also be on there.

Here’s a link to it but embedded video is disabled so we’ll have to jump you to Youtube:

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=18vzLo3sKJg


This song was in the theatrical release of Romancing the Stone in 1984, but the VHS omitted it and replaced it with some generic sounding score. No disrespect to the composer, but even though the Eddie Grant song may be cheesy, it is also catchy.
Even the most recent DVD re-release doesn’t have it – not in the end titles nor even as a separate video special feature.

Eddie Grant – Romancing the Stone




Billy Ocean – When the Going Gets Tough the Tough Get Going
From “The Jewel of the Nile.”

This song is still over the end credits of Jewel of the Nile, but not available as a special feature.

I still find it so cute that the actors pretend to be back-up singers n the video.