History Main / RearrangeTheSong

* ''321Contact'' remixed its theme for the final two seasons.

* The sequel to ''{{Ghostbusters}}'' had the iconic ThemeTune rearranged to a rap.
** "On Our Own" (By Bobby Brown, of all people) was an original song. With only part rap.
*** No, (s)he's talking about the RunDMC [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLWOaAJtjgI version]].

* Similarly, the 1980s ''{{Jeopardy}}!'' theme has gone through five orchestrations in its time.

* An in-story version occurs in TheHunchbackOfNotreDame, where the "generally triumphant" music is just a less evil rendition of "Hellfire".

* ToriAmos is known for retooling classic songs in her own style, to the point that her covers only vaguely sound like the original material. Examples include Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit", REM's "Losing My Religion", and the entire ''Strange Little Girls'' album, which includes a ''haunting'' remake of Eminem's "'96 Bonnie & Clyde" (one of his notorious {{Murder Ballad}}s). She seems to prefer covering songs by male artists, since the only one originally by a female that this troper can think of is Billie Holiday's "[[HumansAreBastards Strange Fruit]]", which is true to the original out of respect for the subject matter (google the lyrics if you dare).
** Billie Holiday isn't the only woman she has covered. Tori has covered Madonna (Live to Tell, Like a Prayer) Joni Mitchell (A Case of You, The Circle Game, Both Sides Now), {{Bjork}} (Hyperballad), Cyndi Lauper (All Through The Night), KateBush (Running Up That Hill, And Dream of Sheep), Britney Spears (Baby One More Time), Kim Carnes (Bette Davis Eyes), Carly Simon (Boys in the Tree), and Kylie Minogue (Can't Get You Out of My Head).

* No theme has been rearranged more than the classic crooner's tune "Fly Me To The Moon" (itself a heavily rearraigned version of an old waltz), which was the ending for {{Neon Genesis Evangelion}}. There's about 15 to 20 versions used for the show's ending, by my count, and that's for a 26 episode TV series.
** Actually the Neon Genesis Evangelion rendition "Fly Me To The Moon" is of itself a rearrangement. It was originally written by Bart Howard in 1954.
* SailorMoon had its theme remixed for North America into a version with completely different (English) lyrics and a "roll call" type sequence tossed in for good measure.
** The original Japanese version of Sailor Moon also got a new version of its theme song (Moonlight Densetsu) for its third season. The new version had actresses behind Moon, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter and Venus doing the singing.

* ''Series/BottleFairy'' has five variations of its ending theme, each sung by a different fairy about a different season, the final one being sung by the four of them together about the {{Warm And Fuzzy Feeling}}s felt throughout the year.

* Shudder To Think's Craig Wedren apparently likes doing this with his song "Day Ditty": Shudder To Think first recorded it as a minimal ballad on ''Funeral At The Movies'', then about 7 years later it reappeared on the ''First Love Last Rites'' soundtrack as a more lavish Phil Spector tribute, with Angela [=McCluskey=] on guest vocals. And then Wedren's more electronic-based project BABY retitled it "Leaving Day Ditty" and gave it more of a trip-hop feel.

* Shudder To Think's Craig Wedren apparently likes doing this with his song "Day Ditty": Shudder To Think first recorded it as a minimal ballad on ''Funeral At The Movies'', then about 7 years later it reappeared on the ''First Love Last Rites'' soundtrack as a more lavish Phil Spector tribute. And then Wedren's more electronic-based project BABY retitled it "Leaving Day Ditty" and gave it more of a trip-hop feel.

* The dub of YuGiOh is an interesting case. The first season theme was really just the first minute of the full theme song. The second season theme was a different piece of music from later in the same song. It bounced back and forth after that.

** Bear McCreary's cover of ''Watchtower'', which featured prominently in ''BattlestarGalactica'', deserves a mention.

* CirqueDuSoleil's concert tour "Delirium" merged this with RewrittenPopVersion for a set list of songs derived from most of the shows from ''Saltimbanco'' through ''Varekai''.

* CirqueDuSoleil's concert tour "Delirium" merged this with RewrittenPopVersion for a set list of songs derived from most of the shows from ''Saltimbanco'' through ''Varekai''.

* TheBill has rearranged its theme music five times in more than 26 years on the air. The original version of the theme was arranged in the irregular time signature of 7/4, giving it almost a reggae style beat. But subsequent rearrangements have been done in the regular time signature of 4/4, making them considerably less interesting as a result.

* ''DoctorWho'' has rearranged its theme several times: two or three times in the '80s to "modernize" it, again in the TV movie, then twice with the new series. The original Radiophonic Workshop version of the ''DoctorWho'' theme underwent a few rearrangements in the 60s and 70s. Arranger Delia Derbyshire added "electronic spangles" for the Patrick Troughton incarnation, and then in the 70s she added the electronic "scream" preceding the closing titles and the sound effect at the end. The new series uses orchestral arrangements of the theme played over the top of the Radiophonic version.

* Scissor Sisters did a disco version of PinkFloyd's "Comfortably Numb" (which somehow the band members liked!).