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{{quote|''"[[What Could Have Been|I was going to use this as the extra stage theme. But I thought the extra stage song should be a little lighter]], so [[Murder Your Darlings|I cried and cried and threw it out]]."''
|'''[[Touhou|ZUN]]''', on ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}RkL8UKsMFWY Magical Shop of Raspberry]''.}}
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== [[Film]] ==
* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-_Ph93j6l4 The Jitterbug]" from ''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'' may be the most famous example of a Cut Song from a film musical. The audio has survived, but the original footage has not - a common fate for Cut Songs from old movie musicals. According to [[Margaret Hamilton]], the song was cut to avoid dating the film via reference to the "jitterbug" fad. Many stage versions of the film, as well as an ice show tour in [[The Nineties]], reinstated the number.
** There was also meant to be a [[Dark Reprise]] of "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAI40Md7Wfk Over The Rainbow]" sung when Dorothy is trapped in the witch's castle. It had to be recorded live on set and reduced the cast and crew to tears.
*** "Over The Rainbow" itself nearly became a cut song, since producers initially could not figure out why a child would be singing in a drab farmyard. They wisely chose to leave it in.
** There was a deleted [[Reprise Medley]] of "
* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7DxaLY-kIA Human Again]" was cut from [[Disney Animated Canon]]'s ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'' before it reached the animation stage (as the filmmakers felt it was too long a sequence), but it was newly recorded and animated for insertion into the 10th anniversary theatrical re-release and subsequent special edition DVD. Prior to this, it was incorporated into the [[Screen to Stage Adaptation]].
** The Beast had at lest one song in production that never even made it to the demo stage before it was cut. The stage version made up for this by giving him ''several'' songs.
* ''[[Pocahontas]]'' had a love duet for the heroine and John Smith, "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiuBw_kj1-U If I Never Knew You]", cut when it bombed with kids in test screenings, though a pop version did appear over the end credits and it's a key motif in the underscore. It was later animated and restored to the film for ''its'' anniversary DVD.
** Also, the song "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtEIgPgwU6g In The Middle of the River]".
** There was also a brief [[Dark Reprise]] of "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uivWDqqSx5g
* For similar reasons, ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'' did the same with an alternative to "God Help The Outcasts", "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xP9QzL9L-A Someday]". It later appeared in the German stage production.
** There was also originally going to be a song called "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuhPdyrTWuY As Long As There's a Moon]", which involves Clopin marrying Phoebus to Esmeralda in what is supposed to be their wedding, but said wedding is immediately interrupted by the intervention of [[Complete Monster|Frollo]] and his henchmen, who now has Esmeralda finally cornered.
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** It ended up on the DVD (not as a deleted scene, ''in'' the movie, as if it had always been there).
** There was also a song recorded for the 3rd movie called "Last Chance" that never made it into the movie apart from the reprise in the [http://youtu.be/wWq9E6JBxCw medley] of most of the songs in the movie. A [http://youtu.be/ewpi5_39-Fw 40 second preview] leaked in 2008 before the movie came out.
** In the first movie, there were a few songs that didn't make the cut. "I Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You" was recorded by the four main leads
* The 1997 rerelease of the ''[[Return of the Jedi]]'' soundtrack includes [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrM07OhoTY4&feature=fvst an alternate version of "Sail Barge Assault"], which for many fans, blows away the film version. This unused version was also featured in the radio adaptation of ROTJ and two levels of ''[[Star Wars Rebel Assault|Rebel Assault II]]''.
* ''[[The Lion King]]'' has the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0WATOVmLtQ reprise] of "[[Villain Song|Be Prepared]]".
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== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
* Several songs were left on the cutting room floor from the ''[[
** [[Kane (wrestling)|Kane]] was going to be given [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8HC0THV3m4 this theme] by [[Type O Negative]], but instead was given "Slow Chemical" by Finger Eleven, which at least was a pretty good song in its own right. Type O's version was eventually published as a bonus track for their ''Life is Killing Me'' album.
** 12 Stones' song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNnWD0IJ68k "Back Up"] was originally intended to be a theme song for [[Dwayne Johnson|The Rock]].
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* In ''[[Homestuck]]'' a dispute with a member of the music team caused a number of songs to be removed from the comic [[Orwellian Retcon|and replaced with other music]].
** Later on, a composer removed his music from "[[Homestuck/Music|Homestuck Vol. 5]]" when he was caught accidentally plagiarizing another song.
** "White Host, Green Room" contains a snippet from an unfinished song titled "[
** "Cascade", "Prospit Dreamers" and "[http://fwugradiation.tumblr.com/post/9295967637/can-you-post-a-5-seconds-segment-of-penumbra Descend]{{Dead link}}" credit a song known as "Penumbra Phantasm". This song has never been released and may have been abandoned.
** When the first four music albums were combined into one compilation album two songs were removed: "Sburban Jungle (Brief Mix)" and "Aggrieve (Violin Redux)". As indicated by the titles, they were remixes of existing songs.
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