It's possible, but I would hope that neither Twentieth Century Fox or Scotti Bros. would have been that petty over something that was initially meant to cross-promote their movie and their artist, respectively. So I can't imagine Scotti Bros. saying "No, we don't want our artist's song on your movie anymore even though the song was highlighted in promotion for the movie."
The whole "Compleat Al" thing I'm sure just had to do with mere licensing of footage. Keep in mind that 1985 was still pretty early in the home video industry, so it's possible that there could have been a lot of red tape to wade through before Fox allowed an outside or side video project to use clips. Of course, the fact that "The Compleat Al" was a CBS/Fox release only makes the matter more baffling.
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It seems like songs that are written especially for productions rarely get cut from the video releases of those productions. I wonder how many other cases there are where a song was written for a movie or TV show or something else and still got cut from the video, laserdisc and/ or DVD releases.
Are Al's songs owned by whatever company he is currently under contract to (Scotti Bros., Volcanoe), or does Al own full rights to his songs and is the only one to have any say in how they are licensed? I don't know if there's usually a difference if an artist sings a song for a movie that's not released by the company that would ownh the music company that the artist is under contract to. It makes me wonder if Volcano owns the rights to The Ballad of Kent Mallow and/ or Polkamon (there was an "Ask Al" where Al confirmed that he chose not to release it because it was written for Safety Patrol and didn't think the song would make sense out of context).
Are Al's songs owned by whatever company he is currently under contract to (Scotti Bros., Volcanoe), or does Al own full rights to his songs and is the only one to have any say in how they are licensed? I don't know if there's usually a difference if an artist sings a song for a movie that's not released by the company that would ownh the music company that the artist is under contract to. It makes me wonder if Volcano owns the rights to The Ballad of Kent Mallow and/ or Polkamon (there was an "Ask Al" where Al confirmed that he chose not to release it because it was written for Safety Patrol and didn't think the song would make sense out of context).
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If I understand everything correctly, the label (in this case, Volcano) owns the actual recordings of the songs while Al owns the publishing rights (at least for his originals). I don't know how Al's current contract is set up, but it's probably likely that Volcano needs to consult with Al before licensing out the songs to something such as a movie.weird user @ Apr 3 2007, 12:04 PM wrote: Are Al's songs owned by whatever company he is currently under contract to (Scotti Bros., Volcanoe), or does Al own full rights to his songs and is the only one to have any say in how they are licensed?
Now, when Al goes off and does a song for an outside project, such as when he appeared on "The Simpsons" or in "Safety Patrol," then the rights to whatever recordings are made are usually owned by whomever made or released the production (unless some other arrangement was worked out beforehand, such as with "This is the Life"). In the case of "Polkamon," according to the Library of Congress, Atlantic Records and Nintendo own the song along with everything else recorded for the soundtrack.
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Atlantic Records sucks!CatraDhtem @ Apr 3 2007, 09:39 PM wrote: In the case of "Polkamon," according to the Library of Congress, Atlantic Records and Nintendo own the song along with everything else recorded for the soundtrack.
Nintendo rules!
I love Polkamon...
Anyway, for the topic, I saw Johnny Dangerously, it was a weird movie. I laughed a few times. I'm not a fan of mob-type movies, but I watched this one and I fell over laughing when the main character tagged the poor animal on it's butt. hahaha!
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LN3000 Posted on Jun 19 2007, 10:33 AM
Yes it is a bit strange but like all those obvious humour movies you need to watch it a few times to get all the sight gags happening in the background.
My family still gets quite a laugh out of it, except the we don't like the 'swearing' even though the words are substituted- it's clear what he means.
We usually play the opening credits twice before the movie & sometimes once again at the end. (Nice having brainwashed kids!!)
Anyway, for the topic, I saw Johnny Dangerously, it was a weird movie. I laughed a few times. I'm not a fan of mob-type movies, but I watched this one and I fell over laughing when the main character tagged the poor animal on it's butt. hahaha!
Yes it is a bit strange but like all those obvious humour movies you need to watch it a few times to get all the sight gags happening in the background.
My family still gets quite a laugh out of it, except the we don't like the 'swearing' even though the words are substituted- it's clear what he means.
We usually play the opening credits twice before the movie & sometimes once again at the end. (Nice having brainwashed kids!!)
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