mr kiss kiss bang bang thunderball intro

When the call was sent out for artists who wanted to record the theme, country troubadour Johnny Cash, of all people, responded with a song he wrote himself. Strangely enough, all of this scrambling and artist switching to get ‘Thunderball’ recorded doesn’t just end at Jones. What’s true is that ‘Thunderball’ nearly sent Jones to the hospital. Jones might have fainted during the recording, but that’s probably just a myth.

“I closed my eyes and I held the note for so long when I opened my eyes the room was spinning,” Jones would later recall. He didn’t know how it would turn out, so he simply reared back and gave it all he had. With ‘Thunderball’ intentionally written to replicate Bassey’s brassy vocal style on ‘Goldfinger’, Jones was asked to hit a major sustained high note at the song’s conclusion. That person turned out to be legendary crooner Tom Jones. Barry and lyricist Don Black scrambled to throw a new song together and sent out a contact for someone who could record the new track quickly.

Bassey sued to get Warwick’s version removed from the movie, but neither track would be used when Eon told composer John Barry that they wanted the film’s title in the opening theme. But when Maurice Binder redesigned his opening credits, a longer song was needed.īassey was no longer available to record an extended version of the track, so Dionne Warwick was brought in to re-record the song.

Bassey dutifully returned to sing the title track, and at this point, the song was a different number entitled ‘Mr. Shirley Bassey’s all-time classic orchestral pop powerhouse of a title song left quite the impression on movie-going audiences, so when production began for the follow-up film Thunderball, it seemed only natural to go back to the well again.

Mr kiss kiss bang bang thunderball intro