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May 7, 2024 - 10:33 AM
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Bond Scores
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Post from Tony Fisher on Trumpet Herald site, 14th January 2007 QUOTE: Hi folks - Just found the site - great !! I would like to clarify a couple of things that I have come across in reading your posts - let me explain first that I have been a first-call lead trumpet studio player here in London for the last 40 years or so - check out my website - so musically, I have "been there - done that" - recording with everybody you can name - from Sinatra to Doc Severinsen, Harry James, Hank Mancini, - ( even the Beatles !!) etc. I am STILL doing it, at over 70 years of age - currently I have a weekly TV show and various other recordings, jazz gigs, plus being the bandleader of the Bert Kaempfert Orchestra for the last 13 years. The thing I need to clarify is the question someone asked about the "007" trumpet section on the early James Bond movies - that was Stan Roderick, me , Greg Bowen and Eddie Blair. Stan Roderick was the official lead trumpet but Greg and I did the high stuff that everyone seems to remember. Derek Watkins was NOT involved - Derek came along much later and has done all the LATER Bond movies. As far as I remember, we started the first Bond films in the early 60s, then in 1975 John Barry took the whole orchestra to Japan to promote the latest Bond - doing a six week concert tour - with the trumpet section that I have named above. No problem with Derek - he is a good friend of mine - I just want to put the record straight. This is very interesting...the official Bond site said the following on Derek's death: "A legend in his field, Derek had the distinction of playing on every single James Bond soundtrack from Dr. No to Skyfall." Also Derek himself talks about playing on each film, beginning when he was aged 17 for Dr. No! https://www.007.com/derek-watkins-rip/
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What baffles me is this whole "anniversary" business. If a release coincides with an anniversary, then by all means mention it if you like, but . . . I have yet to meet a Barry fan, or Goldsmith fan, or any other fan who would NOT buy an expansion of a favorite score just because it was not released on an anniversary that is calculated in groups of five years. Nor have I met a Barry fan, or Goldsmith fan, or any other fan who would be more likely to buy an expansion of a favorite score just because it WAS released on an anniversary that is calculated in groups of five years. And I'll add that any label who has a coveted release ready to go and wishes to hold it for a couple years simply because the release can be promoted as an anniversary edition is over-estimating the marketing value of anniversary editions--not that I know of this occurring.
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I just hope i don't have to wait 'till 2027 for 'TSWLM'
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for THUNDERBALL given that there could be room for extra music when all recorded music has been included i say that many of those 2003 released music where good - all though i despise cross-faded tracks i have to admit that having some of those from the 2003 release as a bonus would be nice - the 2003 track FINDING THE PLANE that segues into Bond and domino underwatet where really good also traction table that segues into the "cooking" of count lippe and the cue that segues into the man in the shower being eaten those croosfaded track could be nice to have as bonus tracks
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Just do another two for Black Friday, LLL.
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The "anniversary edition" is a marketing angle. As others above have pointed out, it means next to zero, but was accorded importance by the same kind of soundtrack fans who also assign elevated meaning to other marketing hype like awards shows, the "red carpet", celebrity puff pieces and other ephemera valued by that cohort. Of course, one of the major problems of Hollywood in general is that these glitz-bombers run too much of the industry, and see themselves as arbiters of what constitutes good taste in the industry. If more of the recorded entertainment field were run by the kinds of high-integrity people who produce our soundtrack albums, we'd get a higher proportion of solid movies and albums as opposed to hype. And the "anniversary" monniker is just another line of hype.
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I'm sure LLL tries to release "The Man With The Golden Gun" and "Goldfinger", even if they haven't found the rest of the 9 minutes of music for the latter one. I'm not so sure about "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", "Moonraker" and "Licence To Kill".
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I'm pretty sure LTK is next - i mean the tapes are all there - the slates are ready the alternate title song was released online i just hope that we also get all tracks from the EP's and singles and so on are included
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