That Gig Has Got Potential
I'm not real up to date on how royalties actually work, but since the show used a rerecorded version of "My Life", without Billy Joel singing, doesn't that mean it wouldn't have been that expensive to feature the original theme? I thought the real problem came in when shows used the actual recorded songs from the artists("WKRP", "Happy Days", "Quantum Leap")?
Was this just a choice made by Paramount/CBS because "Shake Me Loose" was originally intended to be the theme song, or was it really about the royalties?