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* Used frequently in [[Professional Wrestling]], especially in TNA (though it occasionally shows up in [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]]; listen to the Full Blooded Italians' entrance music, and you'll be reminded of "No Sleep 'Till Brooklyn" by the Beastie Boys). WCW was an even worse offender before it got bought out, which is rather odd; they were a Time Warner subsidiary, and Time Warner ''owned'' most of the labels that were getting ripped off. As noted above, this is mostly due to Jimmy Hart, the former [[Trope Namer]] himself, writing the music for these companies. Other examples include Mortis using a reworked version of the theme from [[The Phantom of the Opera]] (both characters wore a skull-like mask).
** To be fair, just because they "Own" the rights doesn't mean they don't have to pay the artist to use the song. It's cheaper to get JH to write the song for you.
** Some infamous JHV's from WCW: "Come As You Are" by [[Nirvana]] ([[
** Way before Jimmy Hart debuted in WCW, there were still JHV's; for example, Dustin Rhodes' theme before the Slam Jam album was a JHV of "Money for Nothing," and the York Foundation used a JH "Dallas" theme.
*** And way before that, in the JCP/NWA days, there was the JHV of Giorgio Moroder's "Chase" that the Midnight Express used.
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** Eric Bischoff's debut theme in WWE was AC/DC's "Back in Black", but he used a JHV for every subsequent appearance.
** The same thing happened with Balls Mahoney. [[In Name Only|The Sandman]], too...but not so much (it DOES bear some resemblance to "Enter Sandman", but again, [[Your Mileage May Vary|not so much]]).
*** With "Enter Sandman" it was a necessity. Metallica charges $
** The original ECW did this too sometimes...see: Taz's music morphing from the actual "War Machine" by KISS to a JHV, to his "Survive If I Let You" theme that used the opening riff to the JH War Machine and then a completely different melody.
*** WWE Diva Mickie James' entrance theme is pretty obviously the Jimmy Hart Version of <s> "My Sharona" by the Knack. You mean</s> "Oh Mickie" by Tony Basil.
** Also, Bill [[Goldberg]]'s entrance theme in WWE was a Jimmy Hart version of his original WCW entrance theme (An awesome piece of stock music), due to the rights to the song not being available. The WWE version was not as awesome.
*** Victoria had previously used tAtU's "All the Things She Said" but was given a lyrics-less cover version a few months later. The same could be said of [[Christian]]. "Just Close Your Eyes" (both the Waterproof Blonde and the Story of the Year versions) is actually the live-band-recording Jimmy Hart Version of two of his previous themes, "At Last" (which
** Lord help the WWE if they lure [[Bryan Danielson]] in ''without'' getting the rights to "The Final Countdown".
*** Considering the way they're going to likely repackage him, they probably wouldn't even consider giving him something that even remotely sounds like it. Let's consider it "averted" for him...for the moment.
**** Apparently he actually ''did'' get a mild JHV of it in Florida Championship Wrestling, but for storyline reasons he has to use [[The Miz]]'s music in WWE NXT.
*** [[The Simpsons (animation)|He's not Bryan Danielson anymore, he's Harry Plopper]]... er, [[Daniel Bryan]].
*** Averted, as they didn't even bother JHV'ing. When he finally got his own music, at first he was using some generic-sound hard rock. And then he won the US Title, and now uses "[[
** [[Ring of Honor]]'s even started this: the music for their HDNet television show bears a remarkable resemblance to Velvet Revolver's "Slither".
*** Oddly enough, Ring of Honor never attempted this after the Internet outcry over [[Bryan Danielson]] having to drop "The Final Countdown." Then again, lemonade was made from this lemon, as the emotional effect when it was brought back for special "off-camera" moments, ''especially'' at his last hurrah...
**** A suspiciously synthesizer-heavy version was used for his entrances on Ring of Honor's TV show, however.
*** As it turns out, WCW using this trope has probably saved WWE a ton of headaches, as they (usually) haven't had to bother with editing music on their archived WCW broadcasts, and certainly not to the same extent as they've had to self-edit. Most of the replacement songs for WWE versions aren't even this trope in action, as they're usually not even close to the original pieces.
** The Other Wiki once had an [
*** [[Curt Hennig|Mr. Perfect]]'s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VynCL_BbPK4 "I Am The Champion"] easily takes the cake, hands down.
*** Elix Skipper's intro sounded A LOT like DMX's "party up".
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