Like Karnak the Magnificent, we give the answers before the questions. As I was posting the previous message explaining about the music changes in the reruns of WKRP, Jim Lawless was sending the following question about one of the episodes TV Land aired this evening…
Toward the end of this episode, Carlson called Venus and asked him to play something for himself and the "little girl" he had in his office. In the original airing (and IIRC, early syndication) of this episode, Venus played "Thank Heaven For Little Girls." However, in all later broadcasts of this episode that I've seen, Venus plays "We've Only Just Begun." (You can still see him clutching the Gigi soundtrack album in both flavors of the episode, though.) Do you know why the original was altered?
Like I said. But this is a good example of the kind of change I was writing about. The cheapo music library probably didn't have "Thank Heaven…" so they picked something else. And of course, being a song about newlyweds, it's much less appropriate…to say nothing of the fact that Venus is holding the wrong record jacket. In some episodes, the alterations are even worse.