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Moonraker is the soundtrack for the eleventh James Bond film of the same name. [2] Moonraker was the third of the three Bond films for which the theme song was performed by Shirley Bassey. Frank Sinatra was considered for the vocals, before Johnny Mathis was approached and offered the opportunity.
- John Barry
- 1979
- April 1979
- United Artists Records
- The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men
- A Fateful Encounter
- Release
- Legacy
Sinatra pulled out of the project, and nobody really knows why although there were reports that he had a fight with Broccoli. Instead he turned his focus onto his Trilogy Album while John Barry headed to Los Angeles to record the title song – without a singer. Johnny Mathis was the next in line. The then 44 year old was best known as a romantic sin...
John Barry happened to bump into Shirley Bassey at the Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel. They reminisced for a while before he asked if she would do another Bond theme. When she agreed, Barry got on the phone to Broccoli and inside a week they were in a recording studio. But with only weeks before the song needed to be released, Barry and lyr...
With a $34 million budget, Moonraker ended up becoming the highest grossing James Bond movie at the time, with a worldwide box office take of $210,300,000. But given the success of the movie, it came as a surprise that the title song failed to chart. It was one of only two Bond theme songs that didn’t – The Man With the Golden Gunby Lulu was the fi...
At one stage, the producers found themselves in a position where they may have had no one at all to sing the title theme song. There was a distinct possibility that they would have been forced to produce an instrumental for the title song instead, so it was a coup de grâceto get Shirley Bassey to sing her record third Bond theme song. In doing so s...
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Nov 27, 2023 · One of her most popular songs, Moonraker, was released in 1979 as the theme song for the James Bond movie of the same name. This article explores the meaning behind the song and its significance in the context of the movie.
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Soundtrack from the 1979 James Bond/007 film "Moonraker," with Roger Moore, Lois Chiles, Michael Lonsdale, Richard Kiel, Corinne Clery, Toshirô Suga, Emily B...
Soundtrack from the 1979 James Bond/007 film "Moonraker," with Roger Moore, Lois Chiles, Michael Lonsdale, Richard Kiel, Corinne Clery, Toshirô Suga, Emily B...
