Post by TVFan on Jan 4, 2006 19:00:37 GMT -5
From this week's TV Guide (I also posted the spoiler version in the Spoilers Forum):
GLORY DAYS
Vintage Springsteen tunes rock this week's COLD CASE
By Stephen Battaglio
(page 36)
Bruce Springsteen once wrote a song called "57 Channels (and Nothin' On)." But he may want to take it back now that his music is featured on an upcoming episode of Cold Case.
When Detective Lilly Rush and Co. investigate a highway shooting on the hit CBS crime drama, the show will be scored by nine Springsteen recordings. The story covers an eight-year span going back to 1980, with all of the tracks culled from Springsteen's albums in that period (The River, Nebraska, Born in the USA and Tunnel of Love).
"We couldn't believe we were going to get to do this," says Kathryn Morris, who plays Lilly. "Everyone took 10 times more care about how we were going to execute it."
Just getting permission to use the songs was an achievement in itself. Springsteen is notoriously resistant to having his songs used for TV. "Bruce is an elite artist," says Evan M. Greenspan, who oversees the music clearances for such shows as The Sopranos and Deadwood. "He doesn't need it."
But Cold Case creator Meredith Stiehm -- a huge Springsteen fan who personally wrote him for permission to use a song in her show's first season -- provided a compelling reason for an all-Boss score. She structured an episode around the lyrics of the tunes she wanted to use.
(EDITED FOR SPOILER CONTENT)
Springsteen, who had to approve the script, apparently liked it.
Authentic period music has been the key to making the flashbacks on Cold Case so effective. The catalogs of Johnny Cash and John Mellencamp were mined for previous episodes. But it isn't cheap -- using a track by a top artist can cost up to $20,000. As for Springsteen's music, "it's definitely beyond our normal budget," Stiehm says. "But he's such a special artist that we feel it's certainly worth it." (Cold Case fans waiting for a DVD release, take note: The series isn't likely to show up on store shelves anytime soon because getting the additional music rights is too costly).
(EDITED FOR SPOILER CONTENT)
Too bad the Boss himself couldn't appear on the show. The producers tried. "We approached his managers about whether he would perform the montage song at the end," says Mark Pellington, who directed the episode. "They were like, 'Uh, no.'" But it never hurts to ask.
GLORY DAYS
Vintage Springsteen tunes rock this week's COLD CASE
By Stephen Battaglio
(page 36)
Bruce Springsteen once wrote a song called "57 Channels (and Nothin' On)." But he may want to take it back now that his music is featured on an upcoming episode of Cold Case.
When Detective Lilly Rush and Co. investigate a highway shooting on the hit CBS crime drama, the show will be scored by nine Springsteen recordings. The story covers an eight-year span going back to 1980, with all of the tracks culled from Springsteen's albums in that period (The River, Nebraska, Born in the USA and Tunnel of Love).
"We couldn't believe we were going to get to do this," says Kathryn Morris, who plays Lilly. "Everyone took 10 times more care about how we were going to execute it."
Just getting permission to use the songs was an achievement in itself. Springsteen is notoriously resistant to having his songs used for TV. "Bruce is an elite artist," says Evan M. Greenspan, who oversees the music clearances for such shows as The Sopranos and Deadwood. "He doesn't need it."
But Cold Case creator Meredith Stiehm -- a huge Springsteen fan who personally wrote him for permission to use a song in her show's first season -- provided a compelling reason for an all-Boss score. She structured an episode around the lyrics of the tunes she wanted to use.
(EDITED FOR SPOILER CONTENT)
Springsteen, who had to approve the script, apparently liked it.
Authentic period music has been the key to making the flashbacks on Cold Case so effective. The catalogs of Johnny Cash and John Mellencamp were mined for previous episodes. But it isn't cheap -- using a track by a top artist can cost up to $20,000. As for Springsteen's music, "it's definitely beyond our normal budget," Stiehm says. "But he's such a special artist that we feel it's certainly worth it." (Cold Case fans waiting for a DVD release, take note: The series isn't likely to show up on store shelves anytime soon because getting the additional music rights is too costly).
(EDITED FOR SPOILER CONTENT)
Too bad the Boss himself couldn't appear on the show. The producers tried. "We approached his managers about whether he would perform the montage song at the end," says Mark Pellington, who directed the episode. "They were like, 'Uh, no.'" But it never hurts to ask.
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I saw this in my TVguide.. 
