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John Barry & James Bond Music

Seeing John Barry's Obit, I realized I have 4 James Bond soundtracks on CD, 'Goldfinger', 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service', 'You Only Live Twice', and 'Diamonds Are Forever', and they are all composed and conducted by John Barry.

I love these CDs. "You Only Live Twice" is a beautiful song, I dare to say Nancy Sinatra's best work. And od courtse there's Shirley Bassey...

But apart from the familiar opening song the rest of the soundtracks are great! Great music!
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old_6eyes
46 posts
 
"Out of Africa" is a good Barry score also.
singleendedsingle
664 posts
 
Definitely Bond soundtracks are the best ever.
Sad about Barry. :(
theduke
372 posts
 
The best Bond movie, "From Russia With Love", also has one of the better Bond soundtracks. What is particularly good about it is that you can hear Bond themes like "The 007 Theme" and the "James Bond" theme in their original unadorned versions.

The first film soundtrack, "Dr.No", was more of a Caribbean thing. Perhaps those involved never thought that this would become the biggest cinematic franchise in eternity! Later Bond soundtracks have these themes but they sometimes are dressed-up a bit for each latter film.
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