up sequence, wondered how the Spinball team talked Sega into  paying for the rights to the original Sonic theme song. It turns out  that the Spinball team was completely unaware that the rights for  the original Sonic music belonged to Dreams Come True, who had  become quite famous since the music was composed two years prior.  Their asking price was more than Sega was willing to pay, so at the  very last minute composer Howard Drossin whipped up a new opening  jingle which became Spinballs theme.