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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 311598" data-attributes="member: 8">Bond Song #3[ATTACH=full]34244[/ATTACH]The &quot;mother&quot; of all Bond songs, including a rejected version by lyricist Anthony Newley. According to wiki he rejected it himself, Shirley Bassey almost gave her life for the song and Harry Saltzman thought the song was rubbish. To me it seems almost impossible to hate this song but maybe it&#039;s different if you hear it as a song that&#039;s not yet being part of the full Goldfinger experience.Anthony Newley&#039;s demo version focuses on the villainy. but it&#039;s so tongue in cheek that it almost sounds like the theme of a Disney villain (e.g. a combination of the Cruella De Vil&nbsp; song and Aladdin&#039;s Arabian Nights ).Shirley Bassey sings it as a warning, the song even starts with an alarm. Maybe she&#039;s a Goldfinger survivor, or his embittered ex-wife - and since the song almost sounds like a musical trailer of the movie I don&#039;t find it very effective when it&#039;s played over the end credits.The original jazzy version could have created that retrospective feel, &quot;this was the fun you have&nbsp; been watching&quot;.Even though the song became immensely popular, and I love it too, it wouldn&#039;t make much sense if it wasn&#039;t a movie song. To compare, I could easily believe that there was a man with a golden gun who charges a million a shot. I mean, that could be a DIVINE song.[MEDIA=youtube]j17q3Otxhvk[/MEDIA]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 311598, member: 8"] Bond Song #3 [ATTACH type="full"]34244[/ATTACH] The "mother" of all Bond songs, including a rejected version by lyricist Anthony Newley. According to wiki he rejected it himself, Shirley Bassey almost gave her life for the song and Harry Saltzman thought the song was rubbish. To me it seems almost impossible to hate this song but maybe it's different if you hear it as a song that's not yet being part of the full Goldfinger experience. Anthony Newley's demo version focuses on the villainy. but it's so tongue in cheek that it almost sounds like the theme of a Disney villain (e.g. a combination of the [I]Cruella De Vil[/I] song and Aladdin's [I]Arabian Nights [/I]). Shirley Bassey sings it as a warning, the song even starts with an alarm. Maybe she's a Goldfinger survivor, or his embittered ex-wife - and since the song almost sounds like a musical trailer of the movie I don't find it very effective when it's played over the end credits. The original jazzy version could have created that retrospective feel, "this was the fun you [I]have[/I] been watching". Even though the song became immensely popular, and I love it too, it wouldn't make much sense if it wasn't a movie song. To compare, I could easily believe that there was a man with a golden gun who charges a million a shot. I mean, that could be a DIVINE song. [MEDIA=youtube]j17q3Otxhvk[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]

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