Deliberate mistake: In the Search for the Stars contest, at the end of the song their mouths have stopped singing as they go to bow but you continue to keep hearing them apparently sing a few seconds longer as it fades out. This is a joke referring to the original Brady Bunch episode where the kids sing the song on live television and the song similarly fades out after they've stopped singing.
The Brady Bunch Movie (1995)
1 deliberate mistake - chronological order
Directed by: Betty Thomas
Starring: Gary Cole, Shelley Long, Christine Taylor, Christopher Daniel Barnes
Genres: Comedy
Factual error: Sam prepares twenty lbs. of meat for Carol but when he gives her the package, it is way too small to be twenty lbs of meat. Ten lbs at most.
Larry Dittmeyer: You know Cindy, this lisp thing is really getting old.
Trivia: The song that Davy Jones sings called "Girl" is from a 1971 Paramount film called "Star Spangled Girl" starring Sandy Duncan. Durning the singing a poster from that film can be seen in the background on the walls with Duncan's picture on them.
Question: Most of the songs the Brady kids sing in this movie (and the sequel) were played at normal speed but were redone with new musicians and singers. However in this movie, during the Sears scene, "Sunshine Day" plays and you can tell it's the original recording from the original show but has been slowed down. Just curious about the reason for slowing this one down - was it a legal issue since the original cast/recording was used or another reason?
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Answer: I have listened several times to both versions of "Sunshine Day" on YouTube. To my ear, they are both the same speed. However, the movie version does have some significant cuts, and some added incidental bridge music, such as when the crowd of women rushes to the Tori Spelling book signing, or when the kids are talking to Alice in the massage chair. If the movie version is slower, it is not significantly so. And perhaps it was changed to fit the blocked movement they wanted, and to accommodate the timing of the scene that they were going for. I doubt legality had anything to do with it, as the soundtrack notes states the song was used by permission. But, again, I don't think the tempo has been significantly altered.
Michael Albert
The original series was faster. I just listened to the start of both versions a few times in a row and although they are both in the same exact key (key of A), the show is definitely faster tempo and the movie slower. Even the singer in the first line of the song (one of the girls) sounds higher pitched in the show, and slower and lower pitched in the movie.