Dr. No (soundtrack)
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| Soundtrack by Monty Norman / John Barry (Track 1) | |||||
| Released | 1963 | ||||
| Recorded | June 1962 | ||||
| Length | 39:17 | ||||
| Label | United Artists, reissued on Liberty | ||||
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Dr. No is the original soundtrack for the 1st James Bond film of the same name.
The original James Bond theme was written by Monty Norman. John Barry, who would later go on to compose the music for eleven Bond films, arranged the Bond theme, but was uncredited - except for the credit of his orchestra playing the final piece. It has occasionally been suggested that Barry, not Norman, composed The James Bond Theme. This argument has been the subject of two court cases, the most recent in 2001. Some portions of the theme are, however, based on music Norman composed for a stage musical several years previously.
The soundtrack album of Dr. No was not originally issued to coincide with the film's initial release in October of 1962. However, in addition to his fee for orchestrating The James Bond Theme, Barry was allowed to perform a different orchestration of the theme on Columbia Records. This became a top ten hit in the U.K.. The soundtrack album came out after the American release of Dr. No in June 1963 with American single recordings of The James Bond Theme by Al Caiola and Leroy Holmes on United Artists Records and Sy Zentner on Liberty Records . In addiiton to Barry's orchestration of The James Bond Theme most of the tracks on the album were performed by Byron Lee & the Dragonaires who appear in the film singing Jamaica Jump-Up. The song Underneath The Mango Tree was performed by an uncredited Diana Coupland, Norman's wife at the time. None of the Eric Rogers orchestrated tracks appear on the soundtrack album.
One musical theme that appears in three different orchestrations on the album: Dr. No's Fantasy, Twisting With James and the misleadingly entitled The James Bond Theme (track 17 on the album, but entirely unrelated to track 1), is not heard anywhere in the film; it may have been an original Norman 'James Bond Theme'. Notable ommissions from the soundtrack include the film's opening sci-fi sound effects/James Bond Theme gunbarrel sequence and the music from the tarantula scene (reused during the climax of the helicopter attack in From Russia with Love but not on that soundtrack album either).
[edit] Track listing
- James Bond Theme – John Barry & Orchestra
- Kingston Calypso – Byron Lee & The Dragonaires
- Jamaican Rock
- Jump Up – Byron Lee & The Dragonaires
- Audio Bongo
- Under The Mango Tree – Diana Coupland
- Twisting With James
- Jamaica Jazz
- Under The Mango Tree (Instrumental)
- Jump Up – Byron Lee & The Dragonaires
- Dr. No's Fantasy
- Kingston Calypso – Diana Coupland
- The Island Speaks
- Under The Mango Tree – Monty Norman
- The Boy's Chase
- Dr. No's Theme [instrumental version of Kingston Calypso]
- The James Bond Theme
- Love At Last
