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  General Discussion: Who Should Have Performed a Bond Song?
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 Posted:   Sep 24, 2024 - 4:46 PM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

For one of the films. Any era.

My vote goes to Cleo Laine for one of the Sean Connery films.

"Let's Slip Away"
 
 
 Posted:   Sep 24, 2024 - 5:59 PM   
 By:   jenkwombat   (Member)

NOT The Beatles, who, to paraphrase Bond in "Goldfinger", are worse than drinking champaign at room temperature...

wink

 
 Posted:   Sep 24, 2024 - 6:01 PM   
 By:   thx99   (Member)

Marian Gold, lead singer of Alphaville (famous for “Forever Young”)



A few years ago, they covered “Diamonds Are Forever” with the Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg…
 
 
 Posted:   Sep 24, 2024 - 6:12 PM   
 By:   villagardens553   (Member)

Cleo Laine--good choice, Mr. Phelps.

For the film The Living Daylights, with a more realistic lead actor, the producers could have eschewed the new wave approach and gone for something more biting. So, 1980s Marianne Faithful singing a smokier John Barry effort.

 
 
 Posted:   Sep 24, 2024 - 6:19 PM   
 By:   Clark Wayne   (Member)

Shara Nelson - I Fell (So You Could Catch Me)

Sorry can't seem to get a link to work but it's on YouTube.

Always sounded like an ideal Bond theme to me-sweeping sound and strong female vocal. A great driving anthem.

*Just realised she did a cover track on David Arnold's Shaken Not Stirred album a few years later.

 
 Posted:   Sep 24, 2024 - 7:13 PM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

Shara Nelson - I Fell (So You Could Catch Me)

Sorry can't seem to get a link to work but it's on YouTube.

Always sounded like an ideal Bond theme to me-sweeping sound and strong female vocal. A great driving anthem.

*Just realised she did a cover track on David Arnold's Shaken Not Stirred album a few years later.

Here you go:



Superb!

 
 
 Posted:   Sep 24, 2024 - 7:19 PM   
 By:   GoblinScore   (Member)

Portishead

ONLY working with the composer on the project,integrating their themes and such. The OG gang....wait, Portishead only had one incarnation!

I would've made....uhm...an undetermined sacrifice.......to hear this happen.

Listen to Sour Times, folks, that Maj/Min sway and the use of cimbalom.

 
 
 Posted:   Sep 24, 2024 - 7:22 PM   
 By:   LRobHubbard   (Member)

This should've been a Bond song...
 
 Posted:   Sep 24, 2024 - 7:27 PM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

I realize that this thread may veer into previously discussed territory, so here is that topic for perusal/rebumping:

"Songs That Sound Like Bond Songs...But Aren't":

https://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=109561&forumID=1&archive=0

 
 Posted:   Sep 24, 2024 - 7:40 PM   
 By:   ZapBrannigan   (Member)

Amy Winehouse ("Back to Black") had a soulful voice.

And Bonnie Tyler ("Total Eclipse of the Heart").

 
 
 Posted:   Sep 24, 2024 - 7:50 PM   
 By:   ZardozSpeaks   (Member)

Buddy Hackett

 
 
 Posted:   Sep 24, 2024 - 9:42 PM   
 By:   Willgoldnewtonbarrygrusin   (Member)

David Bowie

 
 
 Posted:   Sep 24, 2024 - 10:02 PM   
 By:   Tobias   (Member)

Michael Bublé.

 
 
 Posted:   Sep 25, 2024 - 12:24 AM   
 By:   moolik   (Member)

AMY WINEHOUSE would have been the best choice.
Now...I´m not too fond of all the artists out there...

Dollar Wise TAYLOR SWIFT

 
 Posted:   Sep 25, 2024 - 1:56 AM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

Shara Nelson - I Fell (So You Could Catch Me)



She is a good shout. Also sang on Unfinished Sympathy by massive attack. Talented and classy.

I even think Sade would have been a good choice with the right song.

Best of all would've been Edda Dell'Orso.

 
 
 Posted:   Sep 25, 2024 - 2:04 AM   
 By:   Lovejoy   (Member)

I always go with this...

 
 Posted:   Sep 25, 2024 - 2:14 AM   
 By:   CindyLover   (Member)

Slade.
 
 
 Posted:   Sep 25, 2024 - 2:43 AM   
 By:   richuk   (Member)

I always go with this...

According to https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cv22mmnjrnyo she did indeed write 24 for Bond consideration.

I'm a LDR fan but I found this one of her less memorable songs in general. Perhaps something from Ultraviolence might have worked better.

I'm more of a Dua Lipa fan these days and her name came up in the usual rumour mill I think around NTTD, but I think she's a bit too poppy for Bond.

 
 Posted:   Sep 25, 2024 - 3:14 AM   
 By:   thx99   (Member)

Slade.

“Gun Gunaway”

 
 Posted:   Sep 25, 2024 - 3:28 AM   
 By:   CindyLover   (Member)

she's a bit too poppy for Bond.

Duran Duran?

 
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