History Main / RereleaseTheSong

* When the ''Film/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'' movie and subsequent soundtrack album with the Bee Gees and Peter Frampton came out in 1978, Capitol Records re-released Music/TheBeatles' original 1967 album with a decal reading "the original classic." United Artists put ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine'' (with the credit "starring Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band") back into the TV syndication circuit.

* From 1986 to 1992 there was a major trend of rereleased songs becoming big hits in the US, including three that hit [=#1=] (the aforementioned "When I'm With You", "At This Moment" by Billy Vera & The Beaters, and "Red Red Wine" by [=UB40=]). They generally fell into two groups: RevivalByCommercialization ("[[Series/FamilyTies At This Moment]]", "Film/StandByMe" by Ben E. King, "[[Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff Twist & Shout]]" by the Beatles, "[[Film/DirtyDancing Do You Love Me?]]" by the Contours, "[[Film/GoodMorningVietnam What a Wonderful World]]" by Louis Armstrong, "[[Film/{{Ghost}} Unchained Melody"]] by the Righteous Brothers, "[[Film/WaynesWorld Bohemian Rhapsody]]" by Queen), and Top 40 stations putting older songs into their rotation ("Red Red Wine", "When I'm With You", "Where Are You Now?" by Synch, "Into The Night" by Benny Mardones).

* Similarly to the above, Chris Young released "Voices" in 2008. It barely made the top 40, but the next two singles after it went to #1. Based on the momentum of those two, he asked to re-release "Voices" in 2010... and in February 2011, it became his third #1.

* The second single from Mark Chesnutt's sixth album ''Thank God for Believers'' was "It's Not Over", which originally appeared on his second album, ''Longnecks & Short Stories.'' He didn't even re-record it -- it was the original version, re-appearing on an album released over six years later.

* Music/AlanJackson wanted to release "Home" from his debut album, but decided against it because Joe Diffie [[NamesTheSame had a song called "Home" out at the same time]]. Alan later included the original on a GreatestHitsAlbum and released it as a single in 1996.

* After ''The Human League'' became a {{Synthpop}} success with "Don't You Want Me," their record company re-released "Being Boiled", a single previously released by the group's earlier, and very different, {{Industrial}} music incarnation. It still reached the top ten.

* Music/KennyChesney re-recorded his 1994 single "The Tin Man" for his first GreatestHitsAlbum and released the new version in 2001. The re-release has the distinction of being his only single release of the 2000s not to reach Top 10.

* Music/{{Suffocation}} has been rerecording older material almost continuously ''since their first full-length release'', 1991's ''Effigy of the Forgotten'', which featured three re-recordings of songs from their 1991 EP ''Human Waste'' ("Infecting the Crypts", "Mass Obliteration" and "Jesus Wept") and two songs from their 1990 demo ''Reincremated'' ("Reincremation" and "Involuntary Slaughter"), balanced against four new songs. 1995's ''Pierced From Within'' included rerecordings of "Synthetically Revived" (from ''Human Waste'') and "Breeding the Spawn" (the title track from their production-challenged 1993 effort, one of only two full albums to contain no rerecords). 1998's ''Despise the Sun'' EP (their last recording before breaking up for five years) featured their final ''Human Waste'' rerecord, "Catatonia". After reuniting in 2003, they forewent any rerecordings on their comeback album, 2004's ''Souls to Deny'', then resumed rerecording ''Breeding the Spawn'' songs on their self-titled 2006 album ("Prelude to Repulsion" and "Anomalistic Offerings", the latter of which [[NoExportForYou only saw rerelease in Japan]]), 2009's ''Blood Oath'' ("Marital Decimation") and 2013's ''Pinnacle of Bedlam'' ("Beginning of Sorrow").

* AlanJackson wanted to release "Home" from his debut album, but decided against it because Joe Diffie [[NamesTheSame had a song called "Home" out at the same time]]. Alan later included the original on a GreatestHitsAlbum and released it as a single in 1996.

* After Music/DavidBowie became a GlamRock star, his former record company re-released both his first major hit "Space Oddity", and OldShame comedy number "The Laughing Gnome."

* Dog Days Are Over by Music/FlorenceAndTheMachine got re-released in early 2010 with a new more to theme video.

* Music/SavageGarden originally released "To the Moon and Back" in 1997 as the followup to their Top 10 hit "I Want You", but the song failed to get higher than #37 in the US. When their third single "Truly Madly Deeply" became an international #1 hit, they decided to follow it up by releasing "To the Moon and Back" once more. It didn't get much higher in the US, only getting as far as #24, but it made it to #3 in the UK and became their highest charting single there.

* Obscure 80s band Sheriff made "When I'm With You" in 1983; it flopped and the band broke up. A DJ started playing the song again in 1988 and it shot to [=#1=]. Two of the former members were promoting a new band at the time called Frozen Ghost, and they declined to reunite with the other members of Sheriff to promote the song.

* From 1986 to 1992 there was a major trend of rereleased songs becoming big hits in the US, including three that hit [=#1=] (the aforementioned "When I'm With You", "At This Moment" by Billy Vera & The Beaters, and "Red Red Wine" by [=UB40=]). They generally fell into two groups: RevivalByCommercialization ("[[Series/FamilyTies At This Moment]]", "Film/StandByMe" by Ben E. King, "[[Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff Twist & Shout]]" by the Beatles, "[[Film/DirtyDancing Do You Love Me?]]" by the Contours, "[[Film/GoodMorningVietnam What a Wonderful World]]" by Louis Armstrong, "[[Film/{{Ghost}} Unchained Melody" by the Righteous Brothers, "[[Film/WaynesWorld Bohemian Rhapsody]]" by Queen), and Top 40 stations putting older songs into their rotation ("Red Red Wine", "When I'm With You", "Where Are You Now?" by Synch, "Into The Night" by Benny Mardones).

* Music/DollyParton released "I Will Always Love You" twice: in 1974 and again in 1982. Both versions went to #1 on the country charts. She recorded a third version in 1995 as a duet with Music/VinceGill, which got to #15 despite not being released as a single.

* Countless Christmas songs in the CountryMusic genre were re-released several times, thus causing them to re-chart for several years in a row. Among them were "Christmas in Dixie" and "Angels Among Us" by Music/{{Alabama}} (the former was first released in the early '80s, but began re-charting in the late '90s), "All I Want for Christmas Is You" by Vince Vance and the Valiants, "Here's Your Sign Christmas" by Creator/BillEngvall, and "Redneck 12 Days of Christmas" by Creator/JeffFoxworthy. After said songs were wrecking the charts every year with their re-entries, ''Billboard'' finally changed the chart methodology around Christmas 2000 to stop Christmas songs from re-entering. However, this still hasn't stopped ''new'' Christmas releases from clogging up the Country Airplay charts every year...

* Lee Greenwood re-released his SignatureSong "God Bless the USA" after 9/11. The re-release actually ''debuted'' at #16 on the ''pop'' charts, an exorbitantly high debut on that chart, before falling back down again.

* From 1986 to 1992 there was a major trend of rereleased songs becoming big hits in the US, including three that hit [=#1=] (the aforementioned "When I'm With You", "At This Moment" by Billy Vera & The Beaters, and "Red Red Wine" by [=UB40=]). They generally fell into two groups: RevivalByCommercialization ("At This Moment", "Stand By Me"-Ben E. King, "Twist & Shout"-Beatles, "Do You Love Me?"-Contours, "What a Wonderful World"-Louis Armstrong, "Unchained Melody"-Righteous Brothers, "Bohemian Rhapsody"-Queen), and Top 40 stations putting older songs into their rotation ("Red Red Wine", "When I'm With You", "Where Are You Now?"-Synch, "Into The Night"-Benny Mardones).

* Dog Days Are Over by Music/FlorenceAndTheMachine got re-released in early 2010 with a new more to theme video. * Music/KellyClarkson re-recorded her 2005 single "Because of You" as a duet with Music/RebaMcEntire. The duet version was sent to country radio in 2007.

* Modern English re-recorded its 1982 song "I Melt With You" for a 1990 album.
* Moving Pictures' 1982 "What About Me" was re-released in 1989.

* Lee Greenwood re-released his SignatureSong "God Bless the USA" after 9/11. The re-release actually ''debuted'' at #16, an exorbitantly high debut on that chart, before falling back down again.

* Music/{{Suffocation}} has been rerecording older material almost continuously ''since their first full-length release'', 1991's ''Effigy of the Forgotten'', which featured three re-recordings of songs from their 1991 EP ''Human Waste'' ("Infecting the Crypts", "Mass Obliteration" and "Jesus Wept") and two songs from their 1990 demo ''Reincremated'' ("Reincremated" and "Involuntary Slaughter"), balanced against four new songs. 1995's ''Pierced From Within'' included rerecordings of "Synthetically Revived" (from ''Human Waste'') and "Breeding the Spawn" (the title track from their production-challenged 1993 effort, one of only two full albums to contain no rerecords). 1998's ''Despise the Sun'' EP (their last recording before breaking up for five years) featured their final ''Human Waste'' rerecord, "Catatonia". After reuniting in 2003, they forewent any rerecordings on their comeback album, 2004's ''Souls to Deny'', then resumed rerecording ''Breeding the Spawn'' songs on their self-titled 2006 album ("Prelude to Repulsion" and "Anomalistic Offerings", the latter of which [[NoExportForYou only saw rerelease in Japan]]), 2009's ''Blood Oath'' ("Marital Decimation") and 2013's ''Pinnacle of Bedlam'' ("Beginning of Sorrow").

* Easton Corbin had this happen in an unusual way. "Are You with Me", an album cut off his second album ''All Over the Road'', enjoyed success in Europe in 2014 when Belgian DJ Lost Frequencies remixed it as a dance track. The song's success there led to Corbin also including his version of the song on his third album, ''About to Get Real'', and releasing it as a single in 2016.