Dame Shirley Bassey up for another Bond theme song

mi6.co.uk ^ | 09.24.09

[Perdogg]

An invitation to join Dame Shirley Bassey at the Ritz Casino is not to be ignored - reports The Times. After unveiling her new album, The Performance, we ask the Welsh wonder, 72, if she is ready to return glamour and hummability to that much abased commodity, the James Bond theme tune.

[Yossarian]

Anything would be better than the last "Bond Theme" from the White Stripes.

Actually, any Bond movie would be better than the last one - what a letdown after Casino Royale!

[Perdogg]

Maybe she will sing “La Vie en Rose”

[buccaneer81]

As long as we never see the horrors of previous Bond crooners like Sheryl Crow and Madonna.

[Perdogg]

I would like them to do a Bond movie based on the NOVELS ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’ and ‘You only live Twice’.

[Frantzie]

Agreed. Madonna’s was probably the worst by far.

The Casino Royale one was good. I also really like The World Is Not Enough by Garbage.

Aha’s Living Daylights was okay to good. Duran Duran View to a Kill was so so.

[potlatch]

I got to see Shirley Bassey at a dinner show in Puerto Rico many, many years ago. Can't recall what her hits were back then, Light My Fire?

After that I read that she developed a debilitating disease and you never heard much about her from then on.

[buccaneer81]

The Casino Royale one was good. I also really like The World Is Not Enough by Garbage. Aha’s Living Daylights was okay to good. Duran Duran View to a Kill was so so.

I agree with you. Duran Duran was a product of the times, like Live and Let Die. Not bad. And better than the movie. Moore looked 70 years old and Tanya Roberts was a disaster.

[Perdogg]

I actually like John Barry’s Instrumental from “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” Carley Simon’s,”Nobody Doesn’t it Better”, and Gladys Kight’s “Licence to Kill”.

[Perdogg]

Maybe John Barry will come out of retirement.

[Frantzie]

LOL! Moore did look 70 years old. Tanya Roberts was cardboard but looked good. Was this the one with Christopher Walken?

[buccaneer81]

I actually like John Barry’s Instrumental from “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” Carley Simon’s,”Nobody Doesn’t it Better”, and Gladys Kight’s “Licence to Kill”.

All good. The worst ever, IMHO, are "All Time High" by Rita Coolidge, "Tomorrow Never Dies" by Sheryl Crow and "Die Another Day" by Madonna.

[devolve]

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I thought I saw somewhere she is still performing?

Maybe I should link a 007 webpage with ALL of the songs

[buccaneer81]

Was this the one with Christopher Walken?

Yep. He was hammier than Telly Savalas in OHMSS.

[Perdogg]

Yes, That was Lois Maxwell’s last Bond movie as well (may she rest in peace).

[Perdogg]

I found one, but all of the songs were removed because Chubby’s heirs threaten to sue.

[potlatch]

Gosh, I had to Google him! Knew the songs but forgot his name! Wonderful songs he composed.

[John Barry Prendergast, born on 3 November 1933 in York, England) is an English film score composer. He is best known for composing 11 James Bond soundtracks and was hugely influential on the 007 series’ distinctive style.]

[Perdogg]

He won an Oscar for the beautiful music in “Out of Africa”.

[potlatch]

[Maybe I should link a 007 webpage with ALL of the songs]

Do it! You made some great James Bond webpages.

I forgot what Bassey had but it was a bad disease.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Oh, no way. THIS song was the WORST of them all, and this video is HIDEOUS!

“All-Time High” (Rita Coolidge)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1xRPCiczNM

[buccaneer81]

Lois was quite a lady...

Always an adventurous woman, she held a pilot’s licence, regularly went on safari and in the 1980s sailed the South China Sea from Hong Kong to Singapore, armed with M16 machine guns and incendiary rockets to ward off pirates.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

May I direct you to Post #20? LOL! What a BARFER!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Listology:

http://www.listology.com/list/rating-james-bond-theme-songs

[potlatch]

[Out of Africa]

For some reason I can’t recall the sound of that song. I’ll have to do a Google on the lyrics.

I believe devolve will link a webpage as he has all the James Bond songs on webpages.

[buccaneer81]

LOL! THE worst!

[devolve]

the 007 songbook

[buccaneer81]

I always thought James Horner should have given a Bond theme song a try.

[Crolis]

The John Barry instrumental from OHMSS is one of my favorites. “All Time High” was forgettable. I like Gladys Knight’s “License to Kill” and Sheena Easton’s “For Your Eyes Only”.

While not the best of the movies, Shirley Bassey’s redention of “Moonraker” I thought was really done well, especially the end-title disco version of the theme song. Of course “Goldfinger” is the best IMO.

[Clemenza]

Yes, VTAK had Walken as "Zorin," who I called "Urine" as a child.

Moore should have been retired after "The Spy Who Loved Me."

Timothy Dalton = Zzzzzzz...

[Clemenza]

I would’ve taken a roll in the office with Ms. Moneypenny back in the day...

[buccaneer81]

While not the best of the movies, Shirley Bassey’s redention of “Moonraker” I thought was really done well, especially the end-title disco version of the theme song.

I agree. Very well done and vastly underrated.

[Perdogg]

The Man With Golden Gun

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87AMYMCi6jY

ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5OCxwZI7YA

[Frantzie]

Chris always hams it up but he is a riot. One of his bad girls in the movie was a tall blond that was hot. I am NOT talking about Grace Jones.

Her name is Alison Doody and she is Irish. She looks like Catherine Denuve. Stunning.

[Perdogg]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSO3DEcyxPI

[Diana in Wisconsin]

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5OCxwZI7YA

[buccaneer81]

Moore should have been retired after "The Spy Who Loved Me."

I actually think his best work was "For Your Eyes Only." Then he should have retired.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

We’re never going to get them all in if we keep posting over one another, LOL!

[Clemenza]

I enjoyed For Your Eyes Only, although it had Bond basically acting the part of pedophile.

BTW: Thanks for mentioning FYEO. Now I will have the Sheena Easton theme song in my head for a week.

[Perdogg]

Same here.

[Clemenza]

Grace Jones was the first shemale that Bond ever slept with.

[Frantzie]

Sean Connery was long on the tooth in Diamonds Are Forever with Jill St. John who was somewhat long on the tooth too.

Dalton = nice guy - not a good Bond. Moore was almost as bad.

[Frantzie]

What was worse is they showed Walken doing the same. ewww.. She was/is gross.

[buccaneer81]

Timothy Dalton = Zzzzzzz...

OK in "The Living Daylights." Horrible (as was the whole production) in "License To Kill." Gladys Knight was the best part of that overwrought multi-million dollar episode of "Miami Vice."

[devolve]

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I linked one of my first 007 webpages - on Angelfire

No Casino Royale II on that one

I’ll have to check the several Bond folders at D and find some 007 pages with the .mp3s and .midis too

[Perdogg]

although it had Bond basically acting the part of pedophile

Ohhh please, he fought Bibi Dahl off.

[buccaneer81]

Now I will have the Sheena Easton theme song in my head for a week.

LOL!

[Clemenza]

I have difficulty distinguishing Jill St. John, Eva Marie Saint, and Joan Van Ark. Then again, I am a wee lad of 33.

[Frantzie]

Madonna’s song was pretty close to Rita’s nightmare. What made it worse is they casted Madonna in the film which just about wrecked it.

They used a soft focus lens to hide her age. I was expecting Doris Day on screen. I think they used it on Doris to hide her freckles.

[potlatch]

How strange, the first time I tried it it didn’t work, Didn’t know you could link that site here!! Page looks great devolve.

I had gone and found your other urls, came back and this one is working fine!

[Frantzie]

Madonna’s song was pretty close to Rita’s nightmare. What made it worse is they casted Madonna in the film which just about wrecked it.

They used a soft focus lens to hide her age. I was expecting Doris Day on screen. I think they used it on Doris to hide her freckles.