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Post by James Fabiano on May 29, 2024 19:20:57 GMT -5
What things you may have grown up with, etc. were you surprised to eventually learn WEREN'T the orignal presentations? Could be due to changes in music, performers, the show's open, etc...
- Being used to The Bullwinkle Show versions of the Rocky And His Friends cartoons, first from syndication and then later on cable. Especially the opening bumpers that cut out the "Rocky the Flying Squirrel" parts to cut to an "Adventures of Bullwinkle and Rocky" title instead. And don't get me started on the further alterations on DVD and etc.
- I Love Lucy. The heart/cursive drawing. That is all.
- By the 80s, the ORIGINAL version of the Jetsons theme tune...yes, there's differences. And of course the original ending sequence being lost for 80s style credits.
- Flintstones and Rise and Shine.
- Happy Days, Season One, having the split rectangle Paramount TV logo at the end. All of them had whichever logo was current at the time. Including the 70s/80s blue mountain, which felt more natural.
- Cockney Stiletto in Danger Mouse/DM being shown without "To be continued" breaks on Nickelodeon.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on May 29, 2024 19:56:14 GMT -5
How many people know Manfred Mann’s Earth Band’s “Blinded by the Light” is a cover of a Springsteen song?
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Post by IgnahtaSempria on May 29, 2024 19:59:07 GMT -5
How many people know Manfred Mann’s Earth Band’s “Blinded by the Light” is a cover of a Springsteen song? I didn't find that one out until last year. Keeping with Springsteen, I didn't realize that "Cadillac Ranch" was originally a Springsteen song. I always associated it with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on May 29, 2024 20:08:35 GMT -5
The Crash Test Dummies' "Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead", originally an XTC song.
Great Big Sea's "When I'm Up (I Can't Get Down)" as well, originally by an Englosh group called Oysterband.
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Post by MiLB Fan on May 29, 2024 20:13:39 GMT -5
If we’re doing cover songs, I have some examples.
I’m Free - I’ll forever associate the song with the trailer for Step-Kids, which played at the beginning of the TMNT 2: The Secret of the Ooze VHS. Only when I was older did I learn that it was originally by The Rolling Stones.
Please Don’t Go - KWS had a hit with the song in the ‘90s, but I had no idea that it was a cover of the song by KC and the Sunshine Band.
Waiting for Tonight - It was only about three or four years ago that I learned that the song was not originally by Jennifer Lopez, probably because her version and the accompanying video were all over VH1 as the world waited for Y2K.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on May 29, 2024 20:37:49 GMT -5
Yeah, a ton of cover songs on my part -
Only recently discovered that Tiffany's "I Think We're Alone Now" was a cover of a 60's song by Tommy James and The Shodells.
Todd in the Shadows taught me that Natalie Imbruglia's "Torn" was a cover of an Ednaswap song from only a few years earlier.
On the non-music front, I was shocked when about a decade ago I discovered that there were black and white, Belgian produced, French language Smurfs cartoons from the 1960's. I genuinely thought the franchise started with the 80's Hanna-Barbera cartoon.
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Post by agent817 on May 29, 2024 21:09:02 GMT -5
I didn't know until sometime after watching 1983's "Scarface" that it was a remake of a 1932 film of the same name. I don't think a lot of people know about the 1932 film, though.
I don't know if it's the same thing, but when "Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back" came out, many people around me were unaware that it was connected to "Clerks," "Mallrats," "Chasing Amy," and "Dogma." Personally, I remember hearing about those films, but I recall seeing Jay and Silent Bob (with Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith in character, respectively) in a commercial for MTV when the channel advertised some cartoon marathon.
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Post by wildojinx on May 29, 2024 21:40:00 GMT -5
I didnt know there were Superman or any DC Comics cartoons pre-Superfriends until I rented a tape of Superboy cartoons as a kid, and then later got a videotape of the Fleischer Superman cartoon.
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Post by Paul on May 29, 2024 22:41:29 GMT -5
I didn't know until a few years ago that The 5th Dimension song "Wedding Bell Blues (Marry Me Bill)" was a cover. The original version is by Laura Nyro. I've heard The 5th Dimension version on Oldies radio for decades but never heard Laura's original version on the radio.
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Post by James Fabiano on May 29, 2024 23:26:23 GMT -5
Not arguing with later entries, but the original idea is something that was altered early on, such that you always grew up with that version without seeing the unaltered one.
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on May 29, 2024 23:33:50 GMT -5
1985 -- The Bowling for Soup Song
Was originally by SR-71 and released in the same year
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Post by A Platypus Rave on May 29, 2024 23:41:35 GMT -5
All Along the Watchtower is one of teh big ones for people.
the classic Ben Hur... is a remake of a silent movie.
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Post by bibboid on May 30, 2024 1:40:18 GMT -5
I watched The Beastmaster about a thousand times because it was on TBS every single weekend for years. It wasn’t until a few years ago that I saw the non-‘edited for TV’ version which includes a scene with Tanya Roberts topless.
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Post by 'Foretold' Joker on May 30, 2024 3:16:50 GMT -5
Robocop - For years I watched the censored/cut version it wasn't until much later I realised there was the true version with all the additional scenes of violence.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on May 30, 2024 3:34:20 GMT -5
Robocop - For years I watched the censored/cut version it wasn't until much later I realised there was the true version with all the additional scenes of violence. The UK censored broadcast of that is legendary. I’m still convinced that in Perfect Dark when some of the bad guys say “why me” when you shoot them, that’s a tribute to the censored version.
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Post by LiamMcDuggle on May 30, 2024 3:39:24 GMT -5
What things you may have grown up with, etc. were you surprised to eventually learn WEREN'T the orignal presentations? Could be due to changes in music, performers, the show's open, etc... - Being used to The Bullwinkle Show versions of the Rocky And His Friends cartoons, first from syndication and then later on cable. Especially the opening bumpers that cut out the "Rocky the Flying Squirrel" parts to cut to an "Adventures of Bullwinkle and Rocky" title instead. And don't get me started on the further alterations on DVD and etc. - I Love Lucy. The heart/cursive drawing. That is all. - By the 80s, the ORIGINAL version of the Jetsons theme tune...yes, there's differences. And of course the original ending sequence being lost for 80s style credits. - Flintstones and Rise and Shine. - Happy Days, Season One, having the split rectangle Paramount TV logo at the end. All of them had whichever logo was current at the time. Including the 70s/80s blue mountain, which felt more natural. - Cockney Stiletto in Danger Mouse/DM being shown without "To be continued" breaks on Nickelodeon. The music too. I grew up on the re-runs and only found out in the year, the opening was added because it needed to fit the contemporary syndication style, that did not exist when it first aired.
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Post by LiamMcDuggle on May 30, 2024 3:41:36 GMT -5
Robocop - For years I watched the censored/cut version it wasn't until much later I realised there was the true version with all the additional scenes of violence. OMG I thought I was the only one. I first saw Robocop during a day time UPN re-run and nearly everything interesting about the move was cut.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on May 30, 2024 5:16:24 GMT -5
I think a huge number of people in the UK don't know that She's the One by Robbie Williams is a cover, even though it was written by his main collaborator
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Post by DiBiase is Good on May 30, 2024 5:45:47 GMT -5
I think a huge number of people in the UK don't know that She's the One by Robbie Williams is a cover, even though it was written by his main collaborator I thought it was written by Karl Wallinger. Wasn’t Williams’ main collaborator Guy Chambers? I know Chambers was in World Party too but didn’t think he wrote Shes’s the One.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on May 30, 2024 5:50:50 GMT -5
I think a huge number of people in the UK don't know that She's the One by Robbie Williams is a cover, even though it was written by his main collaborator I thought it was written by Karl Wallinger. Wasn’t Williams’ main collaborator Guy Chambers? I know Chambers was in World Party too but didn’t think he wrote Shes’s the One. I knew I should have looked it up. I remembered wrongly, Guy clearly just had an 'in' for that song rather than writing it
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