History WhatCouldHaveBeen / Music

** Conversely, Rivers wrote and sang the hook for "Magic" by rapper B.O.B., but had originally written it as a Weezer song. Weezer's "Angel And The One", which was technically released first, even uses "I got the magic in me" as a [[Recycled lyrics recycled lyric]].

* The original idea behind funk rock {{Supergroup}} The Power Station was that the core group of musicians ([[Music/DuranDuran Andy Taylor, John Taylor]] and [[{{Music/Chic}} Tony Thompson]]) would write and record instrumentals and a different singer would perform on each track - those approached to sing included Music/MickJagger, Music/BillyIdol, [[Music/ThePsychedelicFurs Richard Butler]], and Robert Palmer. The group ended up having so much chemistry with Robert Palmer that they decided to record the entire album with him as lead singer.

* The original idea behind funk rock {{Supergroup}} The Power Station was that the core group of musicians ([[Music/DuranDuran Andy Taylor, John Taylor]] and [[{{Music/Chic}} Tony Thompson]]) would write and record instrumentals and a different singer would perform on each track - those approached to sing included Music/MickJagger, Music/BillyIdol, [[Music/ThePsychedelicFurs Richard Thompson]], and Robert Palmer. The group ended up having so much chemistry with Robert Palmer that they decided to record the entire album with him as lead singer.

* The original idea behind funk rock {{Supergroup}} The Power Station was that the core group of musicians ([[Music/DuranDuran Andy Taylor, John Taylor]] and [[{{Music/Chic}} Tony Thompson]] would write and record instrumentals and a different singer would perform on each track - those approached to sing included Music/MickJagger, Music/BillyIdol, [[Music/ThePsychedelicFurs Richard Thompson]], and Robert Palmer. The group ended up having so much chemistry with Robert Palmer that they decided to record the entire album with him as lead singer.

* Music/ProcolHarum's "A Whiter Shade Of Pale" was originally conceived as a four verse, ten minute piece of EpicRocking, but ended up about half that length and featuring what were originally the first and last verse. One verse got dropped from the arrangement just because the band had decided it was weaker than the rest, which still left a seven minute song; the RecordProducer then suggested sacrificing another verse for the sake of RadioFriendliness. The band have performed the song live with the missing verses, but no studio version of them exists.

* Music/ProcolHarum's "A Whiter Shade Of Pale" was originally conceived as a four verse, ten minute piece of EpicRocking, but ended up about half that length and featuring what were originally the first and last verse. One verse got dropped from the arrangement just because the band had decided it was weaker than the rest, which still left a seven minute song; the producer then suggested sacrificing another verse for the sake of RadioFriendliness. The band have performed the song live with the missing verses, but no studio version of them exists.

** The song "Talk To Me" was performed a few times in 1991 and 1992. Nirvana themselves seemingly never attempted it in the studio, but {{Music/Hole}} attempted it during the early sessions for ''Music/LiveThroughThis'', and later Courtney Love offered it to Music/IggyPop, as he had been one of Kurt's favorite musicians; Iggy turned it down because, while he was a fan of Kurt's music, he was only interested in recording his own original songs.

* Music/ProculHarum's "A White Shade Of Pale" was originally conceived as a four verse, ten minute piece of EpicRocking, but both the single and album versions ended up featuring what were originally the first and last verse. One verse got dropped from the arrangement just because the band had decided it was weaker than the rest, which still left a seven minute song; the producer then suggested sacrificing one more verse for RadioFriendliness. The band have performed the song live with the missing verses, but no studio version of them exists.

* According to vocalist Jaz Coleman, Killing Joke originally wanted their 2003 SelfTitledAlbum to feature "three of our favorite drummers": Music/DaveGrohl, Music/SystemOfADown's John Dolmayan, and Music/{{Tool}}'s Danny Carey. Dave Grohl decided that he wanted to play on the whole album instead, and that's what ended up happening.

** When asked for material to give Music/OzzyOsbourne for an album in 2000, Rivers offered a demo version of "Hash Pipe", later to become the lead-off single for Weezer's 2001 self-titled album - "Hash Pipe" had a more heavy metal / hard rock feel than anything Weezer had released up to that point, which is why they thought of giving it to someone else. Conversely, Rivers wrote and sang the hook for "Magic" by rapper B.O.B., but had originally written it as a Weezer song.

** When asked for material to give Music/OzzyOsbourne for an album in 2000, Rivers offered a demo version of "Hash Pipe", later to become the lead-off single for Weezer's 2001 self-titled album. Conversely, Rivers wrote and sang the hook for "Magic" by rapper B.O.B., but had originally written it as a Weezer song.

** There were two scrapped Beastie Boys film projects over the years: The first would have been a 1980s slapstick HorrorComedy titled ''Scared Stupid''. The second was ''We Can Do This'', which was worked on in the mid-90s, and would have sort of built off the music video for "Sabotage", in that it would be directed by that video's director (Spike Jonze) and feature the band members as multiple comedic alter-egos.

** After recording his first single "Let's Surf" in 1963, alongside the B-side "Please Little Girl Won't You Take This Lollipop" [[note]] Which would later be used in the infamous short horror film ''WebVideo/TakeThisLollipop'' [[/note]], Jameson's first brush with almost becoming a star came in 1964, when his manager Tony Alamo (who would later leave show business behind and become an infamous real life SinisterMinister) began a promotional blitz describing the 19 year old as "The World's Next Phenomenon"...without Jameson's permission. His first single, "I'm So Lonely", was a regional hit in the Midwest ([[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff and Canada]]) and he soon began touring as an opening act for Music/TheBeachBoys and appearing on ''Series/AmericanBandstand''...but after the followup "Okey Fanokey Baby" failed, he soon moved to England to restart his career away from Alamo.

** After recording his first single "Let's Surf" in 1963, alongside the B-side "Please Little Girl Won't You Take This Lollipop" [[note]] Which would later be used in the infamous short horror film ''WebVideo/TakeThisLollipop'' [[/note]], Jameson's first brush with almost becoming a star came in 1964, when his manager Tony Alamo (who would later leave show business behind and become an infamous real life SinisterMinister) began a promotional blitz describing the 19 year old as "The World's Next Phenomenon"...without Jameson's permission. His first single, "I'm So Lonely", was a regional hit in the Midwest ([[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff and Canada]]) and he soon began touring as an opening act for Music/TheBeachBoys and appearing on ''Series/AmericanBandstand"...but after the followup "Okey Fanokey Baby" failed, he soon moved to England to restart his career away from Alamo.

* Obviously, the world is full of musicians who never got to be big stars. But of all the failed "Next Big Things" in music, none have almost succeeded as much as the mercurial Hollywood singer-songwriter Bobby Jameson. A :

* Following the end of {{Music/TheYardbirds}}, Jimmy Page scouted for singers in the new band he was forming. One candidate was Steve Marriott, frontman for {{Music/TheSmallFaces}}. The Small Faces' manager, Don Arden, responded by asking Page if he wanted to play guitar with ten broken fingers. After another candidate, Terry Reid, turned Page down, he recruited Robert Plant, and the resulting band was known to the world as [[Music/LedZeppelin]].

* Following the end of {{Music/TheYardbirds}}, Jimmy Page scouted for singers in the new band he was forming. One candidate was Steve Marriott, frontman for {{TheSmallFaces}}. The Small Faces' manager, Don Arden, responded by asking Page if he wanted to play guitar with ten broken fingers. After another candidate, Terry Reid, turned Page down, he recruited Robert Plant, and the resulting band was known to the world as [[Music/LedZeppelin]].

* Following the end of [[Music/TheYardbirds]], Jimmy Page scouted for singers in the new band he was forming. One candidate was Steve Marriott, frontman for [[Music/TheSmallFaces]]. The Small Faces' manager, Don Arden, responded by asking Page if he wanted to play guitar with ten broken fingers. After another candidate, Terry Reid, turned Page down, he recruited Robert Plant, and the resulting band was known to the world as [[Music/LedZeppelin]].

* Music/{{Beck}} was originally slated to sing on one track of the Music/{{Melvins}}' ''The Crybaby'' - next to Music/{{Tool}} he would have been the biggest name on the guest-appearance-heavy album. Beck reportedly expressed interest in doing it [[note]]he's apparently somewhat of a fan, as he sampled The Melvins' "Hog Leg" in "Beercan" and got Buzz Osborne to make a cameo in the video[[/note]], but some record label issues prevented the collaboration from happening.

* Music/{{Beck}} recorded a somber, acoustic folk album as his major label followup to ''Mellow Gold'', then decided to scrap the material, collaborate with The Dust Brothers and release the much more eclectic ''Odelay'' instead. Two songs from those sessions, "Brother" and "Feather In Your Cap" saw release as b-sides, while another, "Ramshackle", actually appeared on ''Odelay'' itself. Still, the most critically and commercial successful Beck album almost didn't happen.

* "Feel Good Time", {{Music/Pink}}'s song from the ''[[Film/CharliesAngels2000 Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle]]'' soundtrack, was originally intended to be a {{Music/Beck}} song. Beck and producer William Orbit worked on the track for a solo album by the latter, and someone involved with the film heard a working version of the song and wanted it to be a lead-off single for the soundtrack. Beck turned it down, primarily because he prefers to lend his music to more artistic movies like ''Film/EternalSunshineOfTheSpotlessMind'' - the fact that "Feel Good Time" could not be further from the mood of the CreatorBreakdown album ''Sea Change'', released just one year earlier, may have also been a factor. Meanwhile, Pink and Orbit started collaborating on a different song for the same soundtrack - she heard the "Feel Good Time" demo from him and expressed interest in doing a version of that instead. Once permission from Beck was confirmed, she recorded her own vocals over the original track and her version became the lead-off single. William Orbit would later leak an [=MP3=] of the Beck version of "Feel Good Time" - aside from having Beck's vocals, the original included a lead guitar part that was omitted from the P!nk version, but otherwise had the exact same backing tracks.

** In 1990, Nirvana were planning on releasing a second album for Creator/SubPop called ''Sheep'': Once they signed to Geffen and Music/DaveGrohl replaced Chad Channing as a drummer, this was scrapped in favor of ''Music/{{Nevermind}}''. A lot of the material that was considered for ''Sheep'' was re-recorded for ''Nevermind'', and early demos of "Lithium", "In Bloom", "Polly", "Stay Away", and "Breed" [[note]]the latter two were titled "Pay To Play" and "Imodium" at the time[[/note]] give us some idea of what ''Nevermind'' might have sounded like without Dave Grohl and with a [[NoBudget recording budget]] comparable to that of ''Bleach''. It's mainly interesting to think about because ''Sheep'' might have increased their cult fan-base, but most likely wouldn't have had the impact of ''Nevermind''... Especially because one of the main reasons the band did leave Sub Pop was that they weren't keeping up with market demand for ''Bleach'', and fans were having trouble locating copies to purchase. Another interesting tidbit is that "Dumb" was one of the songs being considered for ''Sheep'', but wouldn't be recorded until 1994's ''Music/InUtero''.

* In 1940, there were discussions about Benny Goodman and Count Basie combining their big bands, with Music/BillieHoliday as a featured vocalist. However, these never got beyond the talk stage (the start of UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo and the corresponding decline in big bands further killed such speculation).

** Also auditioning, albeit ''much'' later (for ''90125''), were Eddie Jobson (Curved Air, Music/RoxyMusic) and Ken Elliott (Seventh Wave). Jobson was actually briefly in the band, and can be seen in the original (long) edit of the “Owner of a Lonely Heart” music video.

* There was at one point planned to be a video game based on the band Music/SonataArctica, developed by Zelian Games. It would have been called ''Winterheart's Guild'' (named after their album of the same name), and would have been an action RPG in the vein of series such as ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}''. The game would have featured the band members as characters, with the soundtrack also being provided by the band, including at least one previously-unreleased song. Sadly, it never happened.

* The Music/LedZeppelin tribute album ''Enconium'' was at one point going to feature Cracker covering "When The Levee Breaks", but the final version of the album had them performing "Good Times, Bad Times" instead. Rumor had it that the label had rejected their rendition of the former as "too weird", but members of the band would state it had to be cut from the album for legal reasons - the Led Zeppelin version of "When The Levee Breaks" is an adaptation of a song of the same name by Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe [=McCoy=], and at the time it was unclear how songwriting royalties should be properly distributed for the recording, so the band was asked to record something else.

** On the other side of the coin: After the Muchachos' Finals DQ, several members and instructors defected to the Bridgemen and the Garfield Cadets. This allowed those corps to ascend within DCI, with the Bridgemen winning several Top Drums honors (thanks to former Muchachos instructor Dennis [=DeLucia=]) and the Cadets winning 4 DCI Championships in TheEighties. So it's possible that a successful Muchachos corps could have prevented some of its fellow East Coast corps from becoming contenders.

** "In the Closet" from ''Music/{{Dangerous}}'' was originally planned as a duet with Music/{{Madonna}}. The story given in ''Michael Jackson Unauthorized'' is that she pressed him to write a genuinely sexy, erotic song, and this was what he came up with -- when she heard it, she was appalled by its quality and turned it down flat.

* In the mid-90's Creator/StevenSpielberg approached British alternative rock band Supergrass and proposed that they work with him on an Monkees-esque television series after seeing the music video for "Alright". They turned the offer down, and instead focused on writing and recording their second album ''In It for the Money''. This choice proved to be a wise one in the long run, as ''In It for the Money'' is regarded as their best album.

* Music/LupeFiasco along with Music/{{Pharrell|Williams}} from N.E.R.D./The Neptunes and Music/KanyeWest were going to form a {{supergroup}} called Child Rebel Soldiers or C.R.S. Unfortunately all that materialized were two songs and later Lupe announced that group was on ice. Lupe and [[Music/BoB B.o.B.]] formed a massive supergroup that many fans thought were going to put Young Money in its place...they've done absolutely nothing, besides a remix to "I'm Beaming". Additionally, B.o.B.'s song, "Nothin' on You" is originally planned before Atlantic gave them to B.o.B.