Yesterday, I bought the "Different Strokes" 2nd season DVD set. On one of the episodes, Arnold has a girlfriend but she's interested in Willis instead. Three songs are playing in that episode. They start off dancing in the bedroom to "Knee Deep" by Funkadelic. Later, they end up in the living room dancing to "I Wanna Be With You" by The Isley Brothers. When it gets to the part where they are dancing to Prince's "I Wanna Be Your Lover", the song is not in there and there is a generic song instead that is looped over and over very badly and is too loud for the spoken conversation of the actors. You have to strain to hear what they are saying and this is all going on during the climax of the show when Willis tells the girl off. It just ruins the episode and not only that, more importantly, it means it is not the episode in it's original form.

If the song was allowed in the episode back then in the first place and has aired in the episode for years in reruns, then why wasn't it allowed in the DVD set? Prince has bitched for years about Warner Brothers owning his masters but if they do, why didn't they just tell Prince to go fuck himself and let the song be released in the DVD set? I just don't understand why if the song was allowed to be used in the show back then, then what is different now? Surely they paid either Prince or Warner Brothers back then to use the song in the show.

When I was in the store, I also saw the 1978-1979 season of "Saturday Night Live". That's only one season away from the year Prince performed "Partyup" on the show. If Prince keeps getting his way, we'll never get that performance on DVD. If Warner Brothers owns these masters, they just need to tell Prince to go to hell and do whatever they want to with the songs because we shouldn't miss out just because Prince has lost his damn mind.

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[Edited 7/13/10 7:00am]

when these old shows were originally broadcast there was no intention to ever release them on vhs or dvd, they could play what music they wanted as long as royalties were paid. but to put the music on vhs or dvd they had to renegotiate the terms of the music, and in some cases the rights owners wanted more money than the tv people wanted to pay, so they would often skip songs unless it was an integral part of the show

that's why things like moonlighting took ages to come out on dvd, likewise grease and saturday night fever

Dawson's Creek and Daria have had similar changes made...Dawson's Creek even hade to change the theme music (to a highly inferior cut)

=0P

vainandy said:

Yesterday, I bought the "Different Strokes" 2nd season DVD set. On one of the episodes, Arnold has a girlfriend but she's interested in Willis instead. Three songs are playing in that episode. They start off dancing in the bedroom to "Knee Deep" by Funkadelic. Later, they end up in the living room dancing to "I Wanna Be With You" by The Isley Brothers. When it gets to the part where they are dancing to Prince's "I Wanna Be Your Lover", the song is not in there and there is a generic song instead that is looped over and over very badly and is too loud for the spoken conversation of the actors. You have to strain to hear what they are saying and this is all going on during the climax of the show when Willis tells the girl off. It just ruins the episode and not only that, more importantly, it means it is not the episode in it's original form.

If the song was allowed in the episode back then in the first place and has aired in the episode for years in reruns, then why wasn't it allowed in the DVD set? Prince has bitched for years about Warner Brothers owning his masters but if they do, why didn't they just tell Prince to go fuck himself and let the song be released in the DVD set? I just don't understand why if the song was allowed to be used in the show back then, then what is different now? Surely they paid either Prince or Warner Brothers back then to use the song in the show.

When I was in the store, I also saw the 1978-1979 season of "Saturday Night Live". That's only one season away from the year Prince performed "Partyup" on the show. If Prince keeps getting his way, we'll never get that performance on DVD. If Warner Brothers owns these masters, they just need to tell Prince to go to hell and do whatever they want to with the songs because we shouldn't miss out just because Prince has lost his damn mind.

LOL!

A similar thing happened with John Carpenter's The Thing. Theatrically, it had Stevie Wonder's 'Superstition' in it, but for home video it had to be replaced with another song ('One Chain Don't Make No Prison' by The Four Tops, I believe). This was corrected for the later dvd and blu-ray, however.

OR, maybe the censors were just uncomfortable with the idea of Arnold wanting "to be the only one [she] come[s] for..."

vainandy said:

Yesterday, I bought the "Different Strokes" 2nd season DVD set. On one of the episodes, Arnold has a girlfriend but she's interested in Willis instead. Three songs are playing in that episode. They start off dancing in the bedroom to "Knee Deep" by Funkadelic. Later, they end up in the living room dancing to "I Wanna Be With You" by The Isley Brothers. When it gets to the part where they are dancing to Prince's "I Wanna Be Your Lover", the song is not in there and there is a generic song instead that is looped over and over very badly and is too loud for the spoken conversation of the actors. You have to strain to hear what they are saying and this is all going on during the climax of the show when Willis tells the girl off. It just ruins the episode and not only that, more importantly, it means it is not the episode in it's original form.

If the song was allowed in the episode back then in the first place and has aired in the episode for years in reruns, then why wasn't it allowed in the DVD set? Prince has bitched for years about Warner Brothers owning his masters but if they do, why didn't they just tell Prince to go fuck himself and let the song be released in the DVD set? I just don't understand why if the song was allowed to be used in the show back then, then what is different now? Surely they paid either Prince or Warner Brothers back then to use the song in the show.

When I was in the store, I also saw the 1978-1979 season of "Saturday Night Live". That's only one season away from the year Prince performed "Partyup" on the show. If Prince keeps getting his way, we'll never get that performance on DVD. If Warner Brothers owns these masters, they just need to tell Prince to go to hell and do whatever they want to with the songs because we shouldn't miss out just because Prince has lost his damn mind.

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[Edited 7/13/10 7:00am]

I know and it sucks!

vainandy said:

Yesterday, I bought the "Different Strokes" 2nd season DVD set. On one of the episodes, Arnold has a girlfriend but she's interested in Willis instead. Three songs are playing in that episode. They start off dancing in the bedroom to "Knee Deep" by Funkadelic. Later, they end up in the living room dancing to "I Wanna Be With You" by The Isley Brothers. When it gets to the part where they are dancing to Prince's "I Wanna Be Your Lover", the song is not in there and there is a generic song instead that is looped over and over very badly and is too loud for the spoken conversation of the actors. You have to strain to hear what they are saying and this is all going on during the climax of the show when Willis tells the girl off. It just ruins the episode and not only that, more importantly, it means it is not the episode in it's original form.

If the song was allowed in the episode back then in the first place and has aired in the episode for years in reruns, then why wasn't it allowed in the DVD set? Prince has bitched for years about Warner Brothers owning his masters but if they do, why didn't they just tell Prince to go fuck himself and let the song be released in the DVD set? I just don't understand why if the song was allowed to be used in the show back then, then what is different now? Surely they paid either Prince or Warner Brothers back then to use the song in the show.

When I was in the store, I also saw the 1978-1979 season of "Saturday Night Live". That's only one season away from the year Prince performed "Partyup" on the show. If Prince keeps getting his way, we'll never get that performance on DVD. If Warner Brothers owns these masters, they just need to tell Prince to go to hell and do whatever they want to with the songs because we shouldn't miss out just because Prince has lost his damn mind.

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[Edited 7/13/10 7:00am]

Those sons of bitches!!!