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===Music=== {{Main|The Wonder Years: Music from the Emmy Award-Winning Show & Its Era}} The official soundtrack released in 1988 by [[Atlantic Records|Atlantic]]/[[Warner Music Group|WEA]] contains a total of 13 tracks, featuring Joe Cocker's cover of [[The Beatles]]' "With a Little Help from My Friends", which is the show's theme song.<ref>{{cite web|author=The Wonder Years (1988-93 Television Series) |url=https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000002IOQ/ |title=The Wonder Years OST |website=Amazon |date=March 28, 1989 |access-date=2013-03-26}}</ref> After the series' original run was over, Laserlight Digital released a five-disc compilation box set under the title ''Music from The Wonder Years'' in 1994. This same company later released the first two DVDs for the series, ''The Best of The Wonder Years'' and ''The Christmas Wonder Years''. The disc included 40 oldies favorites and five original songs (each is repeated twice in the set) written exclusively for the series by [[W. G. Snuffy Walden]]. In 2014, [[Time Life]] released a new soundtrack for the show that accompanies deluxe versions of its complete series DVD set. The CD is not available for purchase separately from the DVD box set, however. ====DVD music replacements==== The Time Life DVD releases feature around 96% of the original music soundtrack, including Joe Cocker's cover of "With a Little Help From My Friends" at the opening. Fourteen songs were replaced, in most instances featuring generic studio replacement music in place of the original song, while on a few occasions, the original soundtrack song was replaced with another version of the same song. None of the necessary music replacements resulted in footage from the episodes being removed. *In the episode "The Phone Call", the "[[Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet|Love Theme from ''Romeo and Juliet'']]" was replaced with a song called "Star Crossed Lovers", which has been used in many other TV shows and movies, including ''[[The Brady Bunch]]''. *In "Dance With Me", Joe Cocker's cover of "[[The Letter (Box Tops song)|The Letter]]" was replaced with the original version by [[The Box Tops]], while the [[Herman's Hermits]] version of "[[There's a Kind of Hush]]" was replaced with a rerecording by the Craggy Blue Project. *The episode "Heart of Darkness" had two replacements: "[[Riders on the Storm]]" by [[The Doors]] was replaced with "Children of the Night", while [[Richie Havens]]' cover of The Beatles' "[[Here Comes the Sun]]" was replaced by "Train to Nowhere". *In the episode "Whose Woods Are These?", the [[Blood, Sweat & Tears]] recording entitled "Variations on a Theme" by [[Erik Satie]] (1st and 2nd Movements, adapted from Satie's "[[Gymnopédie|Three ''Gymnopédies'']]") was replaced with "Le Suenne Fite". *The episode "How I Am Spending My Summer Vacation" replaced the Doors' "[[Light My Fire]]" with "Love's on Fire", while the episode "Summer Song" replaced Blood, Sweat and Tears' "[[Spinning Wheel (song)|Spinning Wheel]]" with a rerecording by former BS&T frontman [[David Clayton Thomas]]. *In "Family Car", The Stills-Young Band's "[[Long May You Run]]" was replaced with "Keep Your Motor Running". *In "Wayne on Wheels", "Love Theme from ''Romeo and Juliet''" was again replaced by "Star Crossed Lovers". *In the episode "The Treehouse", [[Doris Day]]'s "[[Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)]]" was replaced with "Call the Whole Thing Off". *In the episode "Little Debbie", "[[Tammy (song)|Tammy]]" by [[Liberace]] was replaced with a song called "Sammy". *"Clip Show" contains the scene from "Heart of Darkness" in which "Here Comes the Sun" is replaced with "Train to Nowhere". *The episode "Kevin Delivers" dropped Blood, Sweat and Tears' "[[You've Made Me So Very Happy]]" with a re-recording by David Clayton Thomas. *In the episode "Alice in Autoland", [[Al Green]]'s "[[Let's Stay Together (Al Green song)|Let's Stay Together]]" was replaced with a re-recording by him. *In the final episode "Independence Day", the [[Ennio Morricone]] song "Brothers" from the 1986 motion picture ''[[The Mission (1986 film)|The Mission]]'', which was played over the pivotal barn scene featuring Kevin and Winnie's last kiss, was replaced with the generic tune "Pastorale" (for this instance alone, the same replacement was used in the 1998 ''The Best of The Wonder Years'' DVD release). Also, not a music change per se, but the Daniel Stern redub of the pilot is used, with the standard opening sequence. Other than the above music changes, all other music is intact. The UK DVD release from Fabulous Films was intended to have no replaced music, but reviews on online retailers and fan websites show that this is not the case.<ref name="wonder-years.tv"/>
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