The Greatest American Hero - Eve Of Destruction

[meileen1942]

This is one of the great songs sung by Joey Scarbury, whom I wish would be recording still.......

The elimination of so many good songs is the reason I have never bought the DVDs. I have a number of my favorite episodes on VHS and hope to get them converted sometime because of the original music. Where, or where, is Stephen Geyer and Joey Scarbury to make a soundtrack, however long ago the show was?

[MasonHellCat]

This episode, 'Operation: Spoilsport' was my all time favourite ep, thanks in huge part to this song. The altered song on the DVDs ruins it.

[knollbang]

I remember this episode and scene and that song from when the show originally aired. Watching my recent DVD's there's some other "junk" song in there and it wrecks the episode......what a load.

[liprandi]

Eric Close would play a wonderful Greatest American Hero... But sadly there is no one able to write something such as the original.

[phigura153]

See, Romans 2:13-15, KJV.

[phigura153]

And that is not Barry McGuire, but the same guy

who sings the theme to the show, about "a wing

and a prayer"...The show's plot seemed to suggest

that you could still be "religious" without having a

"book of instructions", the idea that it is not that

difficult to do the right thing. Some seem to be able

to keep the commandments of God, by nature, as if

they were already written upon their hearts.

[AnitaLife27]

YESSS! That's what it was really! NOT the cheesy song they stuck in there for the DVDs' Tahnks for remembering!

[fjccommish]

Love the ode to cowards that plays in the beginning.

'The Eastern war, we're too cowardly to face the communists...they are too mighty, so let's let them have the world."

Good thing Reagan came along.

[TripeHoundRedux]

"Eastern World" not "Eastern War", you might want to get your ears syringed or something.

[fjccommish]

Sure, but the song is about the Vietnam War all the same. The war was fought to stop Communism, which won and killed over 2 million people after the cowards forced America's withdrawal.

[phigura153]

No.. Because the song mentions 'the Jordan River'

suggesting an apocalyptic theme. So, it is about the

"end of days", although when it was released by

Barry McGuire, the Vietnam conflict was under way.

[fjccommish]

Vietnam would have been the end of days for communists in Vietnam, if not for the namby pampby liberals who forced us out.

[tranurse]

@fjccommish short of nuking viet nam, what were we going to do???

[fjccommish]

@tranurse We were winning on the ground. Not withdrawing would have continued the march to victory.

[BrianSD]

It was NOT Cannel's fault. It was Anchor Bay. Anchor Bay was too cheap to license the music for Cannell's shows. That's apparently why Cannell chose to take his business elsewhere; VEI has replaced SOME of the music on a few of its DVDs (Stingray and Riptide have some music replacements while all three seasons of Hardcastle and McCormick have all the music) but at least they made the effort to license music, even if they couldn't get it all.

[TGAHFAN]

Well to hell with the video Companies then... It is just a shame that studios have to be so damn cheep... They make me sick! Even the Eve of Destruction question is in the Q & A leaflet! But YET the song is not on the DVD... Way to cheat the fans... VPO...

[jadewarlock]

When the person who did hte Q&A wrote the questions, he did not know that it was not going to be included.

I wasn't happy that they took out a couple of the important songs (i.e. "Eve") because they were relevant to the story. Others did not bother me as much, though yes I'd like to have had all the originals myself.

And Brian - you're incorrect - SJC did not want to pay the royalties. Anchor Bay only put the DVDs together with what Cannell gave them. Irony is "Eve" IS in the "A-Team" DVD.

[jadewarlock]

Also, rereading this, this isn't true - Anchor Bay had to use what they got from Cannell = which was the replaced music. Either way, there had to be better songs for a couple fo them and they should've suggested or just removed Ralph's comment of "EOD" being played from the show.

[tomarkenfan83]

Stephen Cannell really fucked us over on the DVDs man... In fact the trivia booklet lists "Eve of Distrution" as the song used to contact Ralph but Yet it is replaced by some lame ass elevator music! CHEEPSKATE is what he is...

[RRLB74]

They did the same thing with 21 jump street dvd's

[tomarkenfan83]

THAT REALLY SUCKS.. If I had the Money I would pay someone to give me copies of the region 2 DVDs. (Overseas) Over there NONE of the music has been removed.. Makes me wish I lived elsewhere.. At lease those in Region 2 areas get the shows without them being fucked with....

[jadewarlock]

Nope, you can blame every single singer who decided they weren't getting enough money (current "singers"), and jacked up the royalties. In foreign countries they do not have to pay those royalties or they're lesser, so they can have the complete sets.

It was disappointing, especially finding out "EOD" was on the "A-TEam" DVD; however, the copyright guys with music don't allow people to pay one royalty for multiple uses. That's the recording business - and I wish people' would blame them.

[fjccommish]

Yeah, how dare musicians want to get paid when someone else uses their music.

[jadewarlock]

Thing is fjccommish, this was produced some time before the music industry started to really whine about getting royalties. I personally find them greedy - I mean they make a lot of money as it is.

Additionally - this was a COVER - not actually sung by the original person. Same with the others. Surely, they could've at least charged less for the cover to allow it to remain instead of the full price - which runs so high it isn't funny.

[fjccommish]

"Additionally - this was a COVER - not actually sung by the original person." For a cover whoever owns rights to the song must be paid every time a recording is performed, as well as the person or group who performs the cover.

[jadewarlock]

It was paid back then - and to be fair it was the ONE actual recording that was performed, but thanks to nitwits in the music industry, they were going to have to pay it again...

... yes, I do not like the music industry for this reason and wish at times that there was no such thing as royalties.

(I mean, think about it commish - technically they can't pay a royalty for every time this music is played on a DVD).

[fjccommish]

But they do. Every time a DVD sells or someone downloads a copy of the music, the original artists receive a tiny payment (or whoever holds the rights to the music.)

[malicedoom]

Damn you, Cannell, for cutting this (and ALL other cover songs) from the U.S. DVD release.

[tizianotoniutti]

What a great voice Scarbury had on this take. Thanks

[tomarkenfan83]

Keep the covers coming... My childhood lives through you...

[msboku]

I love the Eve! Great stuff!