Edited Steele Music on DVD

[Myrtle Groggins]

Thanks to Nancy Eddy for this list of music deletions and editing because of copyright problems (too cheap to buy for the rights) on the RS DVD set.

remylover.topcities.com/editedsteele.html

[Yuliya]

Last time I looked, Nancy's list was incomplete. But unless I find time to update my site, it's the best we have, isn't it?

[Yuliya]

Well, there is no time like now and I'm busy drying my nails anyway, so here it is - remingtonzeal.t35.com/DVDCuts.html. I might move it later, and it's not everything yet, though I think that's it for the first 2 seasons. Additions are welcome, though in this case less is more, you understand.

[Yuliya]

The nails are dry and I think now everything I have is up on that page. It still doesn't mean it's everything.

[Ace]

Neat, some of those I never noticed even being gone.

In Steele On The Air "Thank you for being a friend" was dedicated to Laura and Steele for helping them out.

The music cut in Woman of Stele was by composer Kurt Weill. Lauryn mentioned the piece and it's title somewhere in one of the Steele topics.

[Yuliya]

Yes, that's right, I remember her saying that. I'll update the page, thanks.

I must say, I think the only person who noticed that the music from Belted was gone was MJ (a.k.a. Ilsa Lund a.k.a. Paris Match.) I don't mean the scene in RS's apartment, which is kind of obvious; I mean the other scene. We were talking about the DVD cuts when we met in London and she said she always liked that music. I was very surprised to find out if was nothing more than the generic RS theme. Why???

[Ace]

I'm going throough tapes now and seeing what I didn't thow away.

"Steele Woman" - The replaced Hank Williams song is appropriately "Your Cheating Heart".

The girls in "Breath of Steele" sing a riff on Tom Jones "It's Not Unusual" for Steele's Birthday greeting when he gets the tickets. Is that cut from the DVD, I can remember how much they butchered besides the Happy Birthday song.

[steeleinc]

i think I'm the first one that noticed the Creighton break-in music was missing from "Belted".

Debra

[Yuliya]

Honestly, if you said it somewhere, I must have missed it.

Did I get everything or is there more?

[Myrtle Groggins]

Thanks for the list, Yuliya. A box popped up over your page and I had a devil of a time getting rid of it. Had to close the screen and click your link a second time.

Being rather tone deaf, I can't really say what music is missing from the episodes. However, the glaring absence of Laura's singing in Hearts of Steele was highly noticable to me because of the reactions of RS, Murphy, and Bernice. Why were they reacting that way to complete silence?

Not having benefit of a VCR during the original run of the series, I'm not privy to most of those original episodes. Does anyone have a copy of that segment of Hearts, where Laura is drunk and singing? Sure would like to see it uncut. Can anyone upload a file, or has one already been uploaded somewhere?

"Thank You For Being a Friend" in Steele On The Air - the theme song from The Golden Girls?

[Ace]

I just uploaded that segment (albeit a poor looking one) as well as the one from Breath yesterday in this topic



And yes, Thank You For Being A Friend is the theme song used for Golden Girls.

[Lauryn]

The music cut in Woman of Stele was by composer Kurt Weill. Lauryn mentioned the piece and it's title somewhere in one of the Steele topics.

The music in "Woman of Steele" is recognizably, "Speak Low When You Speak Love," by Kurt Weill though they abbreviate part of the melody line, almost as if they're were originally trying to slip it under the radar as regards the music rights. I do wonder what thought went into choosing it because the lyrics (by Ogden Nash, funnily enough) are nigh perfect for a rather phantom (and ill-fated) passion from one's past.


Speak low when you speak love,
Our summer day withers away
Too soon, too soon.
Speak low when you speak love,
Our moment is swift, like ships adrift,
We're swept apart too soon.
Speak low, darling speak low,
Love is a spark lost in the dark,
Too soon, too soon,
I feel wherever I go
That tomorrow is near, tomorrow is here
And always too soon.
Time is so old and love so brief,
Love is pure gold and time a thief.
We're late darling, we're late,
The curtain descends, ev'rything ends
Too soon, too soon,
I wait darling, I wait
Will you speak low to me,
Speak love to me and soon.

[Ace]

Thanks, Lauryn.

The lyrics are perfect and gorgeous.

Evidently a lot of care went into the music selections of this episode, from this to Hank William's "Your Cheating Heart".

It's such a shame someone's hard very good work in music selection gets erased.

Ace

[Steelefan]

How crazy is it that Laura is singing "Girls just wanna have fun" over some generic pop music?? You can actually hear her lyrics over the replacement. Nuts.

[Steelefan]

Uh, in "Steele on the air", that is.

[sparklingblue]

I totally agree with Steelefan. It sounds absolutely bizarre. I think of all the musical changes the ones in Steele on the Air and Steele Trying bug me the most. They distract me, and somewhat change the feel of the episode.

[Ace]

They do the same thing in Steele Trap. Rocky is singing Cole Porter while dancing with Steele and the piano is playing something completely different. The choice if they're not paying for music (and they proved they weren't willing to) is either have the non matchng vocals or to cut the vocals and scene completely like with Happy Birthday in Breath of Steele which is far more diconcerting.

I don't much mind in Steele On The Air because it's one of the weakest episodes and the music that's cut isn't exactly great to begin with. Trying on the hand is a masterpiece of a Steele episode with the equivilent of a mustache scribbled over it's face with the musak insertions.

Ace

[curious george]

I'm obviously more than a bit late to this discussion, and am not as observant (or whatever you call it when it's hearing) as many of you are. Haven't gotten to "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" yet -- I'll have to have an airline bag with me for that one.

Didn't get to Yuliya's list, either, having just gotten here, but one that hit me - granted, not very significant - but somewhere in the circus one, is the music changed? I think it's when they're practicing the high wire act in her apt. In spite of how long it has been since I watched my homemade tapes, when that scene started, the music was very jarring to me and I wondered if it was another piece that hit the floor in the editing room.