{"id":10710,"date":"2006-11-14T07:10:10","date_gmt":"2006-11-14T14:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/11\/14\/bond-music-james-bond-music.html"},"modified":"2006-11-14T07:10:10","modified_gmt":"2006-11-14T14:10:10","slug":"bond_music_james_bond_mus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/11\/14\/bond_music_james_bond_mus.html","title":{"rendered":"Bond music &#8230; James Bond music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fun article on NPR (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boulderdude.com\/2006\/11\/song_title_song.html\" target=\"_blank\">BD<\/a>) on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boulderdude.com\/2006\/11\/song_title_song.html\" target=\"_blank\">James Bond movie title music over the decades<\/a>.  Yes, it&#8217;s been 42 years of Bond films, and the evolution and maintenance of the Bond music and title sequence tradition continues with the next flick, <em>Casino Royale<\/em>, opening Friday.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got a number of albums that have these tunes, and I enjoy them all, even the cheesy ones (yes, <em>The Man with the Golden Gun<\/em> has lyrics that give innuendo a whole new name, but they&#8217;re still rather clever, and it&#8217;s probably the weakest Bond movie in the canon) and the nonsense ones (yes, a-ha&#8217;s <em>The Living Daylights<\/em> lyrics have nothing to do with the movie or the characters therein, but Barry&#8217;s talented interweaving of the tune into the rest of the movie demonstrated one of his great<br \/>\nstrengths as a Bond composer).<\/p>\n<p>Oddly enough, no mention of the infamous John Barry\/Monty Norman legal battle over who wrote the famous Bond theme (the courts finally decided on Norman).<\/p>\n<p>Good stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fun article on NPR (via BD) on James Bond movie title music over the decades. Yes, it&#8217;s been 42 years of Bond films, and the evolution and maintenance of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33230,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/17\/watching-a-james-bond-movie-th.html","url_meta":{"origin":10710,"position":0},"title":"Watching a James Bond movie th&#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 17-Apr-13 9:42pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Watching a James Bond movie that combines elements of Doctor Who, Lord of the Rings, Indiana Jones, and Farscape. 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