At this point, I would have to take them as an unsubstantiated claim that flies against evidence.
I might buy the idea that a local TV station used the song in locally-made ads for their run of the show. At about that same time (the mid-late 1970s), when I was growing up in Green Bay, one of our local stations would run ads that they themselves clearly had made at the station, for their syndicated game shows, using short snippets of pop songs (the one I recall was Hot Chocolate’s “Every 1’s a Winner,” maybe for “Family Feud”). I wouldn’t be at all surprised if they never sought permission / clearance for using the songs in those ads.
But, actually changing the theme song in the show itself to another song (likely without getting permission)? Sorry, I know it’s what you clearly remember, but I have a very, very hard time seeing it.
Not if they value their broadcast licence. BMI is Very Serious about getting their artists’ money.
“My post is my cite”? Boy, that ought’a show 'em! We’ve never heard that one here before.
I’m not surprised at all. I remember when a local San Francisco TV station replaced the theme of old Casper the Friendly Ghost reruns with Metallica’s “I Disappear” - an incomplete version the station grabbed off Napster.
IIRC Metallica thought it was great, with Lars Ulrich famously saying “Well, they fucked with us, that’s fucking hilarious, good for them.”
I don’t know about Zoltar but Sinbad was great in this movie:
Maybe Queen was paid money. Who knows
What cite ? I never claimed to have any cite, just absolute certainty that
I saw the reruns in Philly using the Queen song.
I’m searching through youtube videos right now.
If I have any luck I’ll let you know.
Zoltar was a character on Star Blazers, not Bachelor Party.
Acquire the reruns that philly stations played of Eddie’s father, as well as any commercial promos for the show at the time.
I will gladly sit down with you and sift through all of them.
We should be able to get to the bottom of this by golly.
If there’s a will there’s a way.
Right before Wayne’s World, Queen was probably at their lowest point. Maybe they sold the rights then
Yeah, right. :rolleyes:
If there’s anything I’ve learned in this life, it’s never 100% trust your memory. The brain and memory are weird things.
Oh, come on, now! If you ever expected anyone to take you seriously, you’ve lost me with this post.
I am serious. But I understand you want proof. If I ever come across something I’ll let you know.
And by the way I’m the biggest skeptic out there.
And here’s another thing, I don’t really worry about changing peoples opinion.
It’s not that important. I know it happened and if others don’t I’m not bothered by it.
For reference, “right before Wayne’s World” (the movie premiered in February 1992), the rest of the band was still coping with the loss of Freddie in late 1991. They had gone through several years of feverish production of music while Freddie was still alive, though they were, indeed, not as commercially successful (at least not in the U.S.) as they had been in the late 1970s - early 1980s.
You’re thus also placing your memories of watching “The Courtship of Eddie’s Father” in syndication, in Philadelphia, in the very late 1980s or very early 1990s. That’s nearly 20 years after it went off the air on network TV, and relatively few TV series are popular enough to last in syndication that long. Are you as certain of this timing as you are of the use of the song?
You are 100% certain that your memory is correct, and 100% certain that local producers would have no problem inserting an extremely popular song into a syndicated show’s title sequence. What definition of “skeptic” are you using?
If you didn’t care to change people’s opinions, you wouldn’t keep repeating your unsubstantiated claim over and over again.
QueenSong_EddiesFather, welcome to the SDMB. If you don’t care about changing peoples’ opinions, why are you here? You apparently registered here just to share this, and are posting rather emphatically on this topic.
I should warn you about the culture of this board: Nobody here is going to take you at all seriously unless you can offer some evidence. So far, you’ve offered… what, a video of someone looking at a webpage? I’m not sure what that’s even supposed to mean. You say that evidence would be too difficult, but it would be even more difficult for any of the folks reading this thread. And you wouldn’t necessarily need to find absolute, slam-dunk proof: You could, for instance, try to find evidence that the show in question aired in syndication in Philadelphia in the late 80s or early 90s. That’d probably be a lot easier than finding a copy of the show itself, and would at least be a start. Until then, though, don’t expect anyone to pay you any heed.
Breaking Away , the series used My Generation by The Who
Every time I order a Starbucks iced coffee I order a small and the girl corrects me and says “tall ?”. And I say no I want a small. I just don’t want to accept some company coming around and trying to change the meaning of the word “tall”.
Each time I really don’t care but I say “small” anyway.
I know they will keep saying small and I’m not upset or anything.
I just am very happy using the word “small”.
I hope that makes sense.
But if it doesn’t it doesn’t bother me either.
More serious things to worry about.