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A trope growing more common every day. Need to breathe new life into old material, or just a way of keeping viewers tuning in?
The staff of TV shows which have been running for many seasons have, on occasion, rearranged the theme song newly each season. A show that has a [[Spin-Off]] or a [[Time Skip]] sequel will occasionally arrange the new show's [[Theme Tune]] to hearken back to the original show. The beneficial effect of this, of course, is that they now have multiple versions of a song to appeal to [[Merchandise-Driven|multiple demographics]].
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== Music ==
* [[Elvis Costello]] rearranged "Watching the Detectives" to an Orchestral Big Band number out of the 1950s.
* [[Wings (band)|Paul McCartney]] has done this repeatedly from [[The Seventies]] on. His album ''Wingspan'' has two different mixes of "No More Lonely Nights" on it, and he once released a classical album in which half the pieces were reworkings of lesser-known songs of his. Then there are the concert versions of "Maybe I'm Amazed" (which is usually as good as the original), "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"
* Miyuki Nakajima redoes her songs for her ''Yakai'' stage shows, sometimes even completely and ''literally'' rearranging them, as with the song "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADwr63E9r4Y&feature=related Kodoku no Shouzo]." (The original can be heard [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np-xT3StTdM here].)
* [[Eric Clapton]] has done a soulful, unplugged version of his own song, "Layla." [http://retrocrush.buzznet.com/archive2007/badcovers/part3.html Opinions vary].
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* [[Kraftwerk]]'s ''The Mix'' is a compilation of rearrangements of their greatest hits.
* ''O' Cracker Where Art Thou?'' had Cracker rearranging their own songs in more of a bluegrass style, in collaboration with Leftover Salmon.
* [[Sound Horizon]] almost always plays rearranged versions of their songs on Territorial Expansion tours. How much they rearrange any given song varies. Sometimes it's simply rearranging the vocalists, other times they change they change the instrumentation or make [[
* Sixties mod group The Creation did a much more synthesized rendition of "Making Time" for their aborted 80's comeback album ''Psychedelic Rose''. Unfortunately for those looking for the original version, only the eighties remake is available on itunes.
* In the line-dance era (mid-1990s), countless [[Country Music]] songs were given "dance mixes" that mainly consisted of amping up the bass and drums, and adding an instrumental "breakdown" in the middle to draw out the song for another minute or two.
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