How come the main title music in the original soundtrack is different from the movie and the newer soundtrack? In the movie there was a bit of extra singing in the beginning of the track but it was removed in the original soundtrack. Anyone know why?
I don't recall the choir hums ever not being there?
Tho, you're not confusing it for the cartoon series version are you?
In the movie you hear Danny Elfman singing Day O, me say daaaay, O", but on the original soundtrack that part is cut out and the first singing you hear is "Day light come and me wanna go home." I just thought it was odd.
oh you mean the soundtrack CD? It's probably because it's two different songs. Danny Elfman didn't put the Day O Song in his theme, he just kicked it off with that, then cut the song to go to the main theme.
The Day O song is by Harry Belefonte.
Yes I know. I'm just talking about the main titles theme composed by Danny Elfman. In the movie, at the beginning, you hear Elfman singing "Day O" and then there are some people singing "Daylight come and me wanna go home" and then the rest of the theme plays. On the original soundtrack cd, the main titles is exactly the same as it is in the movie, except for Elfman singing "Day o" at the beginning. The only singing we hear is the group of people singing "Daylight come and me wanna go home" and then the rest of the theme plays. In the newer soundtrack cd, though, the track is restored so that it plays just as it did in the movie, and they call it the "Elfman vocal intro" version. I was just curious why the first bit of singing was removed in the original soundtrack cd.
Could be due to copyrighting? Sometimes copyrights don't last forever and the contracts have an expiry date and either don't get renewed, the parties have since gone their separated ways and want nothing to do with each other, ownership of the copyrights have changed and no longer wish the material used to be used. (Usually a situation like the writer dies, and the family inherent the copyrights, and know nothing of the contract the music was in, and just slam phones down on people asking to use the music etc..." so it could be something do do with the Belefonte family or whatever record label owns the rights to his music now?
Sometimes the legalities are just a pain in the ass, but they are law. There was a comedian I love who released a VHS/BETA video in about 1985. It not only featured him, but in between his acts there was 3 guest performers who where great.
Unfortunately when DVD came about, he had to cut out the 3 extra acts from the release because one died, and his kin wanted 10 times as much as what he got from being on the original. The other was a dispute because the guest star was now sighed with such and such label and I forget the reason for the other one. But that sort of *beep* happens all the time.
If it's a copyright issue, they wouldn't have included the full Banana Boat Song on the soundtrack.
shareif it was considered some kind of alternate version, or remix, mash up etc... it could have been a track with it's own contract/copyright. Perhaps whomever owns the rights didn't like the original song being messed with or altered?
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