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Jul 24, 2018 - 5:20 PM
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pg1978
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"This dream is for you, so pay the price
Make one dream come true, you only live twice"
I honestly don't care about the lyrics, but for those who do,
this is not Shakespeare.
Compare to Sondheim, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, "Comedy Tonight" -
No royal curse, no Trojan horse,
And a happy ending, of course!
Goodness and badness,
Panic is madness--
This time it all turns out all right!
Tragedy tomorrow,
Comedy tonight!
"Comedy Tonight" (no Trojan horse) is at least witty, and this is one of Sondheim's
earliest efforts.
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The song You Only Live Twice is one of the very best of the Bond songs, I think, and Nancy Sinatra agrees with me. Seriously, the song is very well thought of and finishes high in all of those rank-the-Bond-songs polls. I do think it is so good that I place it alongside Goldfinger and We Have All the Time in the World as the 3 best Bond songs. I think it deserved an Oscar nomination for song, and the score should have been nominated as well. The song was used in the Mad Men finale, and was recently covered by Petra Haden on a Bill Frisell album. Those opening strings!
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You Only Live Twice is a gorgeous song. Pure aural bliss. One of my very favorite Bond songs. Top 5 I'd say.
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It's that fifth chord in the verse--when the strings drop even though it sounds like they should rise. Absolutely, heart-enchantingly beautiful. The best Bond song, IMHO. The movie is kinda meh with all the racism and sexism (though the set design is fantastic) but this theme is just gorgeous.
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Jul 25, 2018 - 1:28 AM
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couvee
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On the 2-CD set The Best of James Bond 30th anniversary limited edition from 1992 there is a "demo title" for 'You only live twice'. From the booklet; "There are not even any rumors available to describe the next selection included. The Cine-Tele studio logbook cryptically describes it as: "You only live twice (demo title)". It was recorded on January 1, 1966, to be the theme for the Bond film after Thunderball -and that is the extent of our knowledge about it. Even the casual listener will instantly know that it is completely different from the eventual theme: different music, different lyrics, different singer." I don't know why it was not included on the 2003 remastered, expanded edition of You Only Live Twice, but perhaps it was an issue with rights(?).
On the 30th anniv. edition there are also two vocal versions of "Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" one sung by Dionne Warwick and one by Shirley Bassey. Of course, another song became the title song (by Tom Jones) as the producers wanted the title of the film in the song. Although the vocal versions of 'Kiss Kiss Bang Bang' are mentioned in the booklet of the remastered, expanded edition of Thunderball, they were (again) not included. Instead there are two instrumental versions, one in mono (track 18).
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The Cine-Tele studio logbook cryptically describes it as: "You only live twice (demo title)". It was recorded on January 1, 1966, to be the theme for the Bond film after Thunderball
The demo clearly wasn't recorded two days after the London premiere of Thunderball and seven months before You Only Live Twice started shooting at Pinewood. Has to be an error and 1st January 1967 is far more likely.
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Lukas addressed the YOLT "demo" song directly in the April 2003 issue of FSM. He said it was excluded from the expanded CD for clearance reasons. "Apparently, it was easier to release [in the 30th Anniversary set] before anyone knew what it was."
And Julie Rogers herself has insisted that the song was not a demo, but a fully-intended title song recording. But I can't remember where I saw her saying that.
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There was a recent issue of Cinema Retro that featured the film You Only Live Twice; this feature included a few pages on the music, with Sinatra, Julie Rogers, Bricusse, etc. chiming in. Rogers states that her performance was intended to be used in the film. (There is an orchestra accompanying her; that doesn't happen in demos.) Sinatra says very nice things about Barry, as does Rogers, and reminisces about the last time she saw him.
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