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[Un] fortuitously, this comes more or less upon Roger Moore's demise. I had already started in on this topic when I read the news this week about his passing.
More than once, the James Bond series has shown its affinity for gold: the word appears in more than one film title: Goldfinger, GoldenEye, The Man with a Golden Gun. And the metal itself appears even more often - you know, the root of all evil. Ask yourself: Why does one rock dug out of the ground have such value? Go figure. Gold ... Silver... Diamonds and more.
The James Bond film series is a serious production process - not least the selection of its music - both throughout each film, but more emphatically, in the film's intro section. Over the years, the honor of singing the films' intro music has fallen to the top of the pop: Paul McCartney, Louis Armstrong, Nancy Sinatra, Carly Simon, Rita Coolridge, Tina Turner ... the list goes on and on. Kind of like how the list of Bond films that include <gold> goes on and on.
The Bond <gold> selection I highlight spans a number of musical genres, but there seems to be an over-arching theme to them all: lots of [studio] production. I don't mean to necessarily place this in a bad sense. In fact, the Bond music over-production is appropriate, but it's obvious. That's probably a given for anything Bond - the whole operation is tightly managed - and that's part of what makes the series classic.
Herewith, 3 golden Bond theme songs:
Tina:
Lulu:
Shirley Bassey:
