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Bond (Musical Act): John Barry
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Speaking of Madonna, she's just the latest in a long line of Bond singers. Matt Munro, a Sinatra-soundalike, sang From Russia with Love. Shirley Bassey nailed Goldfinger. Other artists who lent their voices to 007 are Tom Jones, Nancy Sinatra, Paul McCartney and Wings, Lulu, Carly Simon, Sheena Easton, Rita Coolidge, Duran Duran, a-Ha, Gladys Knight, Tina Turner, Sheryl Crow and Garbage. In 1969, Louis Armstrong sang "We Have All the Time in the World," a song used in the body of the film On Her Majesty's Secret Service. (The film didn't have a title song, just a sterling John Barry instrumental.) Poetically, it was Armstrong's final recording, shortly before his death.
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Like John Barry, David Arnold has left his own mark in the music of James Bond. In this case, he has established what can be called the "suspense motif", which is a descending, repetitive four-note motif that can be heard in most of the Bond movies he has scored, starting with Tomorrow Never Dies. It is usually an underlying motif playing under the main melody, and is usually orchestrated with piano trills, high strings, horns, blaring trumpets, an underlying snare drum, and sometimes accompanied by synthesized sounds. This motif can be heard in:
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Comments: With TWINE, John Barry loses his title as the only composer to have scored more than 1 Bond film (Arnold:2, Barry:11). Arnold again meshes the huge John Barry-esque string and trumpet orchestrals with electronic percussion from Les Arnold (who participated in Arnold's brilliant
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