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MAIN TITLE DESIGNERS

COMPOSERS

Monty Norman (1928-2022 )

Dr. No (1962)
Composer of ‘The James Bond Theme’
and orchestral score/songs

Sang ‘Under The Mango Tree’
[featured in the film as James Bond
follows Quarrel to Puss-Feller's bar]
Dr. No (1962)

Contractually credited in the end titles of every EON Productions James Bond film:
‘The James Bond Theme’
written by Monty Norman
[Mis-spelled Monte in the end credits of
From Russia With Love (1963)]

John Barry (1933-2011)

Dr. No (1962)
Arranger ‘The James Bond Theme’
From Russia With Love (1963)
Goldfinger (1964)
Thunderball (1965)
You Only Live Twice (1967)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
The Man With The Golden Gun (1974)
Moonraker (1979)
Octopussy (1983)
A View To A Kill (1985)
The Living Daylights (1987)
[John Barry also appears in the film as
the conductor of the Vienna orchestra]

‘We Have All The Time In The World’ (instrumental) composed by John Barry included in the track ‘Matera’ & ‘Theme from On Her Majesty's Secret Service’ composed by John Barry re-orchestrated as ‘Good To Have You Back’ by Hans Zimmer
No Time To Die (2021)

Sir George Martin (1926-2016)

Live And Let Die (1973)
GRAMMY^® Award Winner 1974
Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists for ‘Live And Let Die’
Composed by Paul and Linda McCartney

 Also produced the single versions of
‘From Russia With Love’ (1963)
sung by Matt Monro, and
‘Goldfinger’ (1964)
sung by Shirley Bassey.

Marvin Hamlisch (1944-2012)

The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

LYRICISTS

Song heard on a radio in the film
and performed over the end titles.

Leslie Bricusse also wrote the lyrics for
‘Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang’ originally
intended as the title song for Thunderball (1965). First recorded by Dionne Warwick on September 4, 1965, and then by Shirley Bassey on October 12, 1965.

SINGERS & PERFORMERS (Main & End Titles)

Matt Monro (1930-1985)

‘From Russia With Love’
Written by Lionel Bart
From Russia With Love (1963)

Heard on a radio in the film
and performed over the end titles.

Sir Tom Jones (1940- )
[Thomas John Woodward]

‘Thunderball’
Lyrics by Don Black
Thunderball (1965)
 

Nancy Sinatra (1940- )

‘You Only Live Twice’
Lyrics by Leslie Bricusse
You Only Live Twice (1967)

Lulu (1948- )
[Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie]

‘The Man With The Golden Gun’
Lyrics by Don Black
The Man With The Golden Gun (1974)

Carly Simon (1945- )

‘Nobody Does It Better’
Lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

Rita Coolidge (1945- )

‘All Time High’
Lyrics by Tim Rice
Octopussy (1983)

Duran Duran
Simon Le Bon (1958- )

‘A View To A Kill’
Composed by Duran Duran & John Barry
A View To A Kill (1985)

Gladys Knight (1944- )

‘Licence To Kill’
Composed by Narada Michael Walden,
Jeffrey Cohen & Walter Afanasieff
Licence To Kill (1989)
[uncredited in main titles]

Patti LaBelle (1944- )

‘If You Asked Me To’ [End titles]
Written by Diane Warren
Licence To Kill (1989)

Sheryl Crow (1962- )

‘Tomorrow Never Dies’
Written by Sheryl Crow & Mitchell Froom
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)

k.d. lang [Kathryn Dawn Lang] (1961- )

‘Surrender’ [End titles]
Music by David Arnold & David McAlmont,
Lyrics by Don Black
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)

Madonna [Louise Ciccone] (1958- )

‘Die Another Day’
Written by Madonna & Mirwais Ahmadzaï
Die Another Day (2002)
Madonna also appears in the
film as Verity [uncredited]

Chris Cornell (1964-2017)

‘You Know My Name’
Written by Chris Cornell & David Arnold
Casino Royale (2006)

Four Tet
Kieran Hebden (1977- )

‘Crawl, End Crawl’
Written by David Arnold
Produced by Kieran Hebden
Performed by Four Tet
Quantum of Solace (2008) [End titles]

Adele [Adkins] (1988- )

‘Skyfall’
Written by Adele Adkins & Paul Epworth
Skyfall (2012)
Oscar^® Winner 2013
Best Original Song
(Adele Adkins & Paul Epworth)
Golden Globe Winner 2013
Best Original Song
(Adele Adkins & Paul Epworth)
GRAMMY^® Winner 2014
Best Song Written For Visual Media
(Adele Adkins & Paul Epworth)

Billie Eilish (2001- )

‘No Time To Die’
Written by Billie Eilish & FINNEAS
No Time To Die (2021)
GRAMMY^® Award Winner 2021
Best Song Written For Visual Media
(Billie Eilish & Finneas O'Connell)
Golden Globe Winner 2022
Best Original Song
(Billie Eilish & Finneas O'Connell)
Oscar^® Winner 2022
Best Original Song
(Billie Eilish & Finneas O'Connell)

Louis Armstrong (1901-1971)

‘We Have All The Time In The World’
Music by John Barry
Lyrics by Hal David
No Time To Die (2021) [End titles]

SINGERS
(Performances and vocals featured in the film)

Byron Lee (1935-2008)

Guitarist - Byron Lee and the Dragonaires
‘Kingston Calypso’ and ‘Jump Up’
Music & lyrics by Monty Norman
[featured in the film]
Dr. No (1962)

Diana Coupland (1928-2006)

‘Under The Mango Tree’
Music & lyrics by Monty Norman
[featured in the film on a record that
Bond plays in Miss Taro’s bungalow]
Dr. No (1962)

Also married to Monty Norman 1956-76

Louis Armstrong (1901-1971)

‘We Have All The Time In The World’
Lyrics by Hal David
[featured in the film]
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)

Pictured with composer John Barry and lyricist Hal David (1921-2012)

Nina [Van Pallandt] (1932- )

‘Do You Know How
Christmas Trees Are Grown?’
Lyrics by Hal David
[featured in the film]
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
[Pictured above performing the song on
The Morecambe & Wise Christmas Show
BBC1 December 25, 1969]

The Pretenders
Chrissie Hynde (1951- )

‘Where Has Everybody Gone?’ and
‘If There Was A Man’
Written by Chrissie Hynde & John Barry
[featured in the film & end titles]
The Living Daylights (1987)

‘Back Seat Driver’
Written, produced and performed by
David Arnold and Alex Gifford [pictured above left] of Propellerheads
[featured in the film]
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)

Original recordings featured in the James Bond films

Over the years several pieces of re-recorded classical music have been incorporated into the incidental soundtracks of the James Bond films, including Marvin Hamlish's use of by Bach’s ‘Air On The G String’ and Mozart’s ‘Piano Concerto No. 21’ in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). Hamlish also incorporated the ‘Theme from Lawrence of Arabia’ (1962), composed by Maurice Jarre, into his score - although more as an ‘in-joke’ to highlight the on-screen action. Jarre's ‘Lara's theme’ from Doctor Zhivago (1965) is also heard when Anya Amasova (played by Barbara Bach) opens a music box transmitter in the pre-credit sequence of The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), so could actually be considered as part of the narrative as well as an ‘in-joke’. None of these pieces are credited in the film.

Gidea Park

 ‘California Girls’ (1980 cover version)
Written by Brian Wilson (1942- )
A cover version of the 1965 Beach Boys hit [featured in the film]
A View To A Kill (1985)

The Clash
Joe Strummer (1952-2002)
[John Graham Mellor]

‘London Calling’ (1979)
[featured in the film]
Die Another Day (2002)

The performances listed below are all diegetic sounds heard in the film rather than just original recordings included as part of the soundtrack. These recordings are played by characters in the respective films and heard as part of the narrative. There were also several other pieces of music heard in the films and over the end credits, including three recordings by Jamie Cuadra in Quantum of Solace (2008), and incidental music in Spectre (2015) such as the use of ‘New York, New York’ [heard on 009's in-car CD player in the Aston Martin DB10 stolen and driven by James Bond (Daniel Craig)]. Several original recordings can also be heard during the scenes in Jamaica and Cuba in No Time To Die (2021), and are credited at the end of the film. These are more diegetic background music (including the Reggae songs heard in the Jamaican nightclub) rather than actually part of the narrative. Similarly Simon Greenway's performance of ‘It Had To Be You’, heard at the Carver Media Group Network party in Hamburg in Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), is more background atmosphere rather than a piece of music essential to the plot.

Jaime Cuadra (1970- )

‘Cholo Soy’
Written by Luis Abanto Morales
Performed by Jaime Cuadra, Giancarlo Morocco & Luis Abanto Morales
‘Regresa’
Written by Augusto Polo Campos
Performed by Jaime Cuadra
‘El Provinciano’
Written by Laureano Martinez Smart
Performed by Jaime Cuadra &
 Luis Abanto Morales
[all from the album Cholo soy (2006)]
[featured in the film]
Quantum of Solace (2008)

(Heard at the Greene Planet charity
fundraising party in Bolivia)

Charles Trenet (1913-2001)

‘Boum!!’ (written 1938)
Written and performed by Charles Trenet
Columbia Records 1956 (pictured above)
[featured in the film]
Skyfall (2012)

(Heard over loudspeakers
on Silva's island)

The Animals
Eric Burdon (1941- )

‘Boom Boom’
1964 recording written by
John Lee Hooker (1917-2001) in 1962
Performed by ‘The Animals’
[featured in the film]
Skyfall (2012)

(Played over loudspeakers by the helicopter carrying Silva [Javier Bardem]
as it arrives at ‘Skyfall’ - James Bond's
ancestral home in Scotland)

Andreas Scholl (1967- )

‘Cum Dederit’ (Andante)
[Nisi Dominus (Psalm 126), R.608]
Written by Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Performed by Andreas Scholl,
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra,
conductor Paul Dyer.
Decca Records [recorded 2000]
[featured in the film]
Spectre (2015)

(Played by Lucia Sciarra [Monica Bellucci]
as she returns home after her husband's funeral as James Bond [Daniel Craig] kills the SPECTRE assassins)

Ray Quinn (1988- )

‘New York, New York’
Written by John Kander (1927- )
& Fred Ebb (1928-2004)
Performed by Ray Quinn
From the album Doing It My Way (2007)
[featured in the film]
Spectre (2015)

(Heard on the on the in-car CD-player of 009's Aston Martin DB10 stolen and driven by James Bond [Daniel Craig])
 

Geoff Love (1917-1991)*

‘One Furtive Tear’ from L’Elisir D’Amore
Written by Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
Performed by
The Geoff Love Concert Orchestra
From the LP Opera Without Words
Parlophone Records Ltd (recorded 1975)
[featured in the film]
Spectre (2015)

(Heard briefly in Lucia Sciarra's villa as James Bond [Daniel Craig] writes down Felix Leiter's contact details)

Dalida (1933-1987)
[Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti]

‘Dans La Ville Endormie’ (1968)
Written by Claude Lemesle (1945- )
Music by William Sheller
From the 4-track EP Pars
[featured in the film]
No Time To Die (2021)

(Played on a CD by Madeleine Swann's mother [Mathilde Bourbin] at the Norway home of the family in the
pre-credit flashback sequence)

Enrico Caruso (1873-1921)

‘Che Gelida Manina’ from La Bohême
Written by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
Sung by Enrico Caruso (1906 recording)
[featured in the film]
No Time To Die (2021)

(Record played in the hotel room
of James Bond and Madeleine Swann
during the pre-credit sequence
in Matera, Italy)

Yma Sumac (1922-2008)
 [Zoila Augusta Emperatriz
Chávarri del Castillo]

‘Incacho (Royal Anthem)’
Written by Moisés Vivanco (1918-2008)
Performed by Yma Sumac
From the album Inca Taqui
Capitol Records 1953 (pictured above)
[featured in the film]
No Time To Die (2021)

(Heard as Q [Ben Whishaw] is cooking dinner in his London home)

Composers, performers and singers from other James Bond films

Burt Bacharach (1928-2023)

Composer music score
Casino Royale (1967)

Herb Alpert (1935- )

[Main title theme]
Casino Royale (1967)
Composed by Burt Bacharach
Performed by
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass

Dusty Springfield (1939-1999)
[Mary Isobel Catherine
Bernadette O'Brien]

‘The Look of Love’
[featured in the film]
Casino Royale (1967)
Composed by Burt Bacharach,
Lyrics by Hal David

Mike Redway (1939- )

‘Have No Fear Bond Is Here’ [End titles]
Casino Royale (1967)
Music by Burt Bacharach,
Lyrics by Hal David

Also sang
‘Dream On James, You're Winning’
[featured in the film and on the
original soundtrack album]

Michel Legrand (1932-2019 )

Composer music score
Never Say Never Again (1983)

Lani Hall (1945- )

‘Never Say Never Again’
Music by Michel Legrand
Lyrics By Alan (1925- ) & Marilyn Bergman (1928-2022)
Never Say Never Again (1983)
[Main & End titles]

Also married to Herb Alpert
who produced the song
[with Sergio Mendes (1941-2024)]
and played solo trumpet on the recording.

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