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* Many songs from the original version of ''StarlightExpress''--"Engine of Love," "Call Me Rusty," "He Whistled at Me," "Belle the Sleeping Car," the coaches' reprise of "Rolling Stock," "Wide Style, High Smile," "No Comeback," and others--were cut in the 1990s to modernize the show and to add a much greater focus on the character Pearl at the expense of the rest of the cast. //Some of these changes occurred before the '90s revamp: "Engine of Love," the first song ever written for the show, was replaced with "Call Me Rusty" when ''StarlightExpress'' made its debut, but the Japan/Australia tour and early Bochum productions included the former instead. In 1992, "Call Me Rusty" was cut, and "Crazy" became Rusty's primary song. The 1980s Broadway production deleted "He Whistled at Me" in favor of "Make Up My Heart," making Pearl's first solo an angst-ridden pop ballad rather than a bouncy, erotic disco number. Eventually, "He Whistled at Me" was rewritten as "He'll Whistle at Me," with different arrangement and lyrics and a much earlier appearance in the show. "A Lotta Locomotion," meanwhile, was changed almost completely, going from a cute, cheeky, DoubleEntendre-laden IAmSong to an overtly sexual ChorusGirls-style number with an arrangement more typical of a girl group. "No Comeback" was cut to make the show's happy ending even more conventional, but the melody remained as a {{Leitmotif}} for Electra and his components.

* Many songs from the original version of ''StarlightExpress''--"Engine of Love," "Call Me Rusty," "He Whistled at Me," "Belle the Sleeping Car," the coaches' reprise of "Rolling Stock," "Wide Style, High Smile," "No Comeback," and others--were cut in the 1990s to modernize the show and to add a much greater focus on the character Pearl at the expense of the rest of the cast. Some of these changes occurred before the '90s revamp ("Engine of Love," the first song ever written for the show, was replaced with "Call Me Rusty" when ''StarlightExpress'' made its debut, but the Japan/Australia tour and early Bochum productions included the former instead; the 1980s Broadway production deleted "He Whistled at Me" in favor of "Make Up My Heart," making Pearl's first solo an angst-ridden pop ballad rather than a bouncy, erotic disco number. Eventually, "He Whistled at Me" was rewritten as "He'll Whistle at Me," with different arrangement and lyrics and a much earlier appearance in the show). "A Lotta Locomotion," meanwhile, was changed almost completely, going from a cute, cheeky, DoubleEntendre-laden introductory song to an extremely sexual ChorusGirls-style number with an arrangement more typical of a girl group. "No Comeback" was cut to make the show's happy ending even more conventional, but the melody remained as a {{Leitmotif}} for Electra and his components.

* Many songs from the original version of ''Starlight Express''--"Engine of Love," "Call Me Rusty," "He Whistled at Me," "Belle the Sleeping Car," the coaches' reprise of "Rolling Stock," "Wide Style, High Smile," "No Comeback," and others--were cut in the 1990s to modernize the show and to add a much greater focus on the character Pearl at the expense of the rest of the cast. Some of these changes occurred before the '90s revamp ("Engine of Love," the first song ever written for the show, was replaced with "Call Me Rusty" when ''Starlight Express'' made its debut, but the Japan/Australia tour and early Bochum productions included the former instead; the 1980s Broadway production deleted "He Whistled at Me" in favor of "Make Up My Heart," making Pearl's first solo an angst-ridden pop ballad rather than a bouncy, erotic disco number. Eventually, "He Whistled at Me" was rewritten as "He'll Whistle at Me," with different arrangement and lyrics and a much earlier appearance in the show). "A Lotta Locomotion," meanwhile, was changed almost completely, going from a cute, cheeky, DoubleEntendre-laden introductory song to an extremely sexual ChorusGirls-style number with an arrangement more typical of a girl group. "No Comeback" was cut to make the show's happy ending even more conventional, but the melody remained as a {{Leitmotif}} for Electra and his components.

** One song from the N64 version(which had MIDI music, I think), [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrjLkGGGGZo&p=D74247FC704AD924&playnext=1&index=17 "Oblivion"]], was completely cut from the PC version(which uses Redbook audio). This song is programmed using sequences of varying lengths so that it plays for an indeterminate amount of time without looping exactly. Even for the length it's used in-game (during the Oblivion cutscenes) it wouldn't fit on the PC CD. Also, several songs were truncated to fit the CD, eg "Death Marshes" and "Lair of the Blind One's" are missing their epic climaxes.

** One song from the N64 version(which had MIDI music, I think), [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrjLkGGGGZo&p=D74247FC704AD924&playnext=1&index=17 "Oblivion"]], was completely cut from the PC version(which uses Redbook audio). This song is programmed using sequences of varying lengths so that it plays for an indeterminate amount of time without looping exactly. Even for the length it's used in-game (during the credits) it wouldn't fit on the PC CD. Also, several songs were truncated to fit the CD, eg "Death Marshes" and "Lair of the Blind One's" are missing their epic climaxes.

* The 1997 rerelease of the ''ReturnOfTheJedi'' soundtrack includes [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAe1Ojmltx4 an alternate version of "Sail Barge Assault"]], which IMO, blows away the film version.

* A bunch of songs from the musical ''{{Grease}}'' got cut from the film, showing up only as backgroud "music on the jukebox" during dialog scenes.
* Although [[CultClassic few people have heard it to begin with]], the Dungeon Song from {{DrSeuss}}'s ''[=~The 5,000 Fingers Of Dr. T~=]'' had its third verse cut out due to [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids increasingly horrific]] references as the song progressed. Not even sure the original track still exists:

* LittleShopOfHorrors had several deleted songs, for various reasons:
** I Got A Hobby and Bad were deleted, because they were replaced by Dentist! and Mean Green Mother From Outer Space respectively, which are both better songs.
** The Worse He Treats Me was deleted because it mischaracterized Audrey (depicting her as an intentional masochist, rather than someone stuck in an abusive relationship).
** A Little Dental Music was cut because it's unnecessarry for the plot and supposedly hurt the timing, although some disagree.
** We'll Have Tomorrow was stated to be cut for timing, but very few people believe this, considering that it would have been one of the more emotionally significant songs in the show. It's likely that it was cut out because it was too depressing.
** A little known cut song called "The Meek Shall Inherit (Reprise)" would have been a reprise of The Meek Shall Inherit for Patrick Martin, and was cut for unknown reasons as none of the creators have ever mentioned it.

* Thanks to a substantial {{Retool}} from its ''Kingdom of the Sun'' origins, almost ''every'' song was cut from ''TheEmperorsNewGroove,'' with the exception of "Perfect World." All the songs are still on the soundtrack, though -- and "My Funny Friend and Me" still appears over the end credits. Sadly, Yzma's VillainSong, "Snuff Out the Light," was pretty [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome frickin' sweet.]]

** One song from the N64 version(which had MIDI music, I think), "Oblivion", was completely cut from the PC version(which uses Redbook audio). This song is programmed using sequences of varying lengths so that it plays for an indeterminate amount of time without looping exactly. Even for the length it's used in-game (during the credits) it wouldn't fit on the PC CD. Also, several songs were truncated to fit the CD, eg "Death Marshes" and "Lair of the Blind One's" are missing their epic climaxes.

** One song from the N64 version(which had MIDI music, I think), "Oblivion", was completely cut from the PC version(which uses Redbook audio). This song is programmed using sequences of varying lengths so that it plays for an indeterminate amount of time without looping exactly. Even for the length it's used in-game (during the credits) it wouldn't fit on the PC CD. Also, several songs were truncated, eg "Death Marshes" and "Lair of the Blind One's" are missing their epic climaxes.

** One song from the N64 version(which had MIDI music, I think), "Oblivion", was completely cut from the PC version(which uses Redbook audio). This song is programmed using sequences of varying lengths so that it plays for an indeterminate amount of time without looping exactly. Even for the length it's used in-game (during the credits) it wouldn't fit on the PC CD.

** One song from the N64 version(which had MIDI music, I think), "Oblivion", was completely cut from the PC version(which uses Redbook audio). This song is programmed using sequences of varying lengths so that it plays for an indeterminate amount of time without looping exactly. Even for the length it's used in-game it wouldn't fit on the PC CD.

* In ''{{Turok}} 2'', there's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CbwWRa0se0&feature=related a song in the sound test]] (Track 11 on the CD of the PC version) that sounds like a BossBattle theme, but isn't used anywhere in the game. Apparently it was intended for the FinalBoss battle, which uses the Mantid boss music instead.

** One song from the N64 version(which had MIDI music, I think), "Oblivion", was completely cut from the PC version(which uses Redbook audio). This song is programmed using sequences of varying lengths so that it plays for an indeterminate amount of time without looping exactly.

** One song from the N64 version(which had MIDI music, I think), "Oblivion", was completely cut from the PC version(which uses Redbook audio). This song is programmed/sequenced so that it plays for an indeterminate amount of time without looping exactly.

** One song from the N64 version, "Oblivion", was completely cut from the PC version. This song is programmed/sequenced so that it plays for an indeterminate amount of time without looping exactly.

* In ''{{Turok}} 2'', there's a song in the sound test (Track 11 on the CD of the PC version) that sounds like a BossBattle theme, but isn't used anywhere in the game. Apparently it was intended for the FinalBoss battle, which uses the Mantid boss music instead.

* In ''{{Turok}} 2'', there's a song in the sound test that sounds like a BossBattle theme, but isn't used anywhere in the game. Apparently it was intended for the FinalBoss battle, which uses the Mantid boss music instead, possibly due to a programming error.

* The movie version of the Broadway musical ''Lady in the Dark'' cut out nearly all of the musical numbers, including the one that has the most bearing on the whole plot and ties the whole thing together: "My Ship". Reportedly this was a due to the producer of the film hating Kurt Weill (the composer) and the song itself. All that remained of the original score in the end were "The Saga of Jenny" and "Girl of the Moment".

* "It's Never Too Late To Mendelssohn" was written for Danny Kaye to sing in the second DreamSequence of ''Lady in the Dark''. The song was cut, but Kaye recorded it. The third DreamSequence originally had the song "No Matter Under What Star You're Born" as Liza's astrological excuse for not Making Up Her Mind, but it played poorly and was replaced by the show-stopper "The Saga of Jenny." The zodiac number was reused with substantial revisions in ''The Firebrand of Florence''.

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* The songs ''When the Tigers Broke Free'' and ''What Shall We Do Now?'' were both cut from the album of Pink Floyd's ''TheWall'' for lack of space. The former was released as a non-album single, whilst the intro to the latter was reworked into ''Empty Spaces'', and its lyrics were included in the sleeve notes (though not, unfortunately, in the CD rerelease) and was used in the live tour. Both songs were ultimately used in the film version.