Why is it that in some movies that go to video, some of the music is changed? Especially in Love at First Bite, the song used in the disco was replaced by another one. Why is this done? Is it a copyright issue, or something? It mostly happens in older movies, around the time that home videos came out.
shareI agree with you that they shouldn't have changed it. I don't know why it was changed. I wanna boogie!
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I have only seen the home video version, what songs were changed? All I know for sure is that if I could dance like that, women (and quite a few men) would fall in love with me too (even though I am a bloodsucking vampire).
It's all in good fun.
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The song that was changed was the main one playing in the disco as Dracula starts to dance with the the object of his affection, Cindy Sondheim. The song was "I love the Nightlife" and was sung by Alicia Bridges (who??). But it fit the whole scene beautifully, something the replacement song doesn't even start to do.
Regardless this remains one of the best horror parodies ever made (or likely to be made).
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Doh! I rented this to show someone younger a prime example of a great parody only to discover I Love The Nightlife is replaced with some lame celluloid crapo whacko birdy doody that doesn't even begin to express the feeling of that moment.
Almost made me mad.
Does anyone have a copy of the TV version [the version with the right song and an added scene of Drac being secuded in the subway?]?
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I just purchased the DVD today, and I'm so angry that "I Love the Nightlife" is missing from the film, I almost want to go back to Borders and demand a refund. However, the song's absence doesn't ruin the movie, which has always been a favorite of mine. Still, 'Love at First Bite' is slightly incomplete without that song.
shareTaking it that some licensing issues made them change the music for the Home
Video release, it must be said that at least we can enjoy some of the fun of the
original scene by viewing the trailer on the DVD. Which features 'I Love the
Nightlife' pretty much throughout the entire trailer run.... !???!!
There are some strange licensing laws out there.....
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When a movie is reissued on DVD all the songs have to be run through the writers of the music who own the RIGHTS to the music. So I guess that whoever wrote the "I Love the Night Life" song wanted too much money.
I wonder if it had anything to do with the same song being in The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert?There was an official film clip done by Alicia Bridges with scenes from Priscilla.
shareIf I'm not mistaken, there was some sort of disagreement with Alicia Bridges (or perhaps whoever represents her---I'm not sure who the precise villain is here) over the use of the song. From what I heard, it all boiled down to she wanted more money than the studio or the producers wanted to pay to continue to use the song in the movie. I remember watching the film on television with the new song, and it completely ruined that scene. That song so perfectly personified and spoofed the moment (disco, Dracula, the groovy '70s), and the new song doesn't even come close. It's a damned shame. It's the reason I refuse to plunk down my hard-earned cash to pay for the home video version.
In my humble opinion, the studio either should ante up and pay the royalties to use the song, or Alicia Bridges needs to get her head out of her a$$ and realize that covetously clutching onto the song and wringing every last dime out of it is both pathetic and not going to make her many new fans.
Love at First Bite was filmed early in the video age, and obviously video wasn't considered in the liscencing. A few years later, video usage would be included in the licsensing as a standard practice. Seveal 70's era films fall victim to that, not many before. I guess at the time these movies were coming to video, the songs were still new enough for the artists to feel they could be "difficult".
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