Monty Norman
Film composer Monty Norman originally wrote the theme music to the first James Bond film Dr. No, then John Barry arranged it. Barry recalled in the London Times August 1, 2008 that he got a call from Noel Rogers of United Artists music. Authorship and origin [edit]. Monty Norman has been credited with writing the James Bond Theme, and has received royalties since 1962. Norman collected around £485,000 in royalties between the years 1976 and 1999. Sam Smith has recorded the song for the new James Bond film Spectre. The track is called Writing's on the Wall and will be released on 25 September. Sam told Lizo Mzimba it was hard keeping it a secret, and that the theme was written in 20 minutes. The James Bond Theme has accompanied the opening titles twice, as part of the medley that opens Dr. No and then again in the opening credits of From Russia with Love (1963). It's also the first James Bond theme song recorded by a British male solo artist since 1965, when Tom Jones performed Thunderball.. Smith co-wrote Writing's on the Wall with Jimmy Napes, his collaborator on In the Lonely Hour.. The  James Bond Theme  is the main signature theme of the James Bond films and has featured in every Eon Productions Bond film since Dr. No, released in 1962. The piece has been used as an accompanying fanfare to the gun barrel sequence in almost every James Bond film. Sam Smith's new James Bond theme, Writing's on the Wall from the film Spectre is a massively dramatic song, and the British pop superstar took that in to account with a fittingly solemn music video. On Monday (Oct. 5), the Lay Me Down singer ... Composer John Barry, who wrote the scores for 11 Bond films, as well as the theme songs for Goldfinger and Thunderball, died Sunday. He was 77. Barry also scored about 100 films, winning Oscars for his music from The Lion in Winter, Born Free, Out of Africa and Dances with Wolves. Monty Norman is the man who composed the James Bond theme. We all think we know what the tune signifies -- edgy, classy, secret, dangerous even. But Norman composed it to suggest something very different. Norman says the song came about from a stage musical that was abandoned.
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