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Well, first up here's just a cool pic I found of John Barry, with Jane Birkin. This is so 60's. ;)
I'd like to note that John Barry composed for many films. My personal favorite other than a Bond film would be "Born Free."
But focusing on James Bond on this thread. Here is: The music, the sound of 007:
(only about 22 minutes, but quite nice)
to read this.
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2009/02/john-barry200902
And it finishes with this:
I ask about the vein of melancholy and loss that runs through so much of his work, not only in Midnight Cowboy and Out of Africa and Dances with Wolves, where Barry’s score almost single-handedly turns what could have been a Boys’ Life adventure saga—arrowheads! tepees! abducted white women!—into a meditation on the vanishing frontier, but even in some of the Bonds. You Only Live Twice, for instance, in which the downbeat title song, with its shivering counter melody, has the singer, Nancy Sinatra, sounding as if living twice weren’t such a great idea after all. Or On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, with its poignantly ironic love song, “We Have All the Time in the World,” sung with a breaking voice by Louis Armstrong in “What a Wonderful World” mode. Armstrong was ailing at the time of the recording, having been hospitalized for heart problems; Barry chose him, he says, precisely because Armstrong “didn’t have all the time in the world.” He would die two years later.
But where were we? Melancholy and loss. Rather than tackle the subject head-on, Barry segues rather abruptly into a long remembrance about the Luftwaffe fire bombing that devastated York in 1942, when he was eight: “I remember looking over the city—this big, big red thing in the sky. And then my mother took me down into the city. And the stink—ugh—the burning … whatever. It was just … it was just horrendous. My school was hit. And five of the nuns who stayed there—they were all killed. That was the first time we were in the thick of it. And the streets had melted. The heat from the houses burning on both sides actually melted the tar in the road. And years later they found all kinds of stuff that had been blown out of windows and into the tar. I still think of the stench. Oh god, it was unlike anything you ever smelled or smelled since.”
This isn’t the first time he has shared this memory with a journalist, and there’s something almost rote about the way he launched into it as soon as I brought up the subject of loss. But it’s hardly a canned response. His voice has gotten softer and even lower, and he seems genuinely moved by the memories he has summoned, that early experience of fragility of life and place. What he’s showing me, I think, either purposefully or reflexively, is that he’s a kind of Method actor, or Method composer.
“You make it personal,” he says. But he’s reluctant to delve too deeply into his psyche, plus he seems tired—we’ve been talking for a few hours—so instead I ask if I can look at his Oscars, and we both brighten up.
You Only Live Twice - whose theme song alone is hauntingly beautiful
However, I cannot find the entire score on line.
Here is a special track, "Wine With Stacey" and I'm sending this out especially dedicated to my friend, @royale65.
... along with the killer theme song in the opening credits (Duran Duran)
I will conclude my contribution today with this lovely tribute.
Here is a June 2011 John Barry Memorial Concert, in full. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. This salutes his entire career.
Note: This is the full audio (not video; could not find a decent video of it). Includes Michael Caine and many more.
Here is a partial list of what you can hear in this tribute:
01. Opening & Michael Parkinson Introduction (0:00)
02. Goldfinger (3:37)
03. The Knack (5:56)
04. Michael Caine Remembers John Barry (7:45)
05. Zulu (11:05)
06. The Ipcress File (13:30)
07. Somewhere in Time (17:41)
08. John Barry Recalls The Lion in Winter (21:25)
09. Don Black Remembers John Barry (23:01)
10. Born Free (27:25)
11. Midnight Cowboy (30:36)
*Julian Jackson, harmonica
12. Dances with Wolves (34:03)
*Julian Jackson, harmonica
13. Nicholas Dodd remembers John Barry (39:01)
14. We Have All the Time in the World (40:22)
*sung by Rumer
I hope you enjoy listening to these, as well as the nice article I posted. Cheers! We are almost into 2017. Let's go out with a grand celebration. :-bd
first of all let me thank the contributors to this thread, who have done one or more Advent Calendar windows.
Needless to say you all did such a great job, this thread has been a constant joy!
@ToTheRight (Dec. 2nd)
@Thunderfinger (Dec. 3rd)
@4EverBonded (Dec. 4th, 11th, 30th)
@PropertyOfALady (Dec. 5th, 20th)
@TR007 (Dec. 6th, 25th)
@ggl007 (Dec. 7th, 17th, 22nd)
@0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 (Dec. 8th, 23rd)
@Major_Boothroyd (Dec. 9th, 16th)
@Murdock (Dec. 10th)
@jake24 (Dec. 12th)
@fire_and_ice (Dec. 13th)
@Shark_0f_Largo (Dec. 14th, 21st)
@Some_Kind_Of_Hero (Dec. 15th)
@Gustav_Graves (Dec. 18th)
@Dragonpol (Dec. 19th, 24th)
@BeatlesSansEarmuffs (Dec. 26th)
@Birdleson (Dec. 27th)
@Agent_99 (Dec. 28th)
@MajorDSmythe (Dec. 29th)
I have opened the first window on Dec. 1st. and in circa 12 hours I will open the last window today on New Year's Eve.
"We Have All the Time in the World," will always be a high favorite for me. It's an ironic song in every way, not only in the context of the film but also in "our world." Armstrong produced it while ill and when he was just two years from death (it was also the last song he ever recorded). And of course there's the genius of Barry, who designed it as the love theme for Bond and Tracy when he knew the lyrics would become a sad irony as the film closed and the last piece we hear is a melancholic instrumental of the tune as Bond says the immortal words. I could tear up every time I hear the horns of the song, and there's no moment where I can watch Tracy's death without tears running down my face. How she says Bond gave her the greatest gift of all, "a future," chokes me up instantly, and Lazenby gives a performance that guts me all the more. Everything in that movie, from the narrative to the music, came together to produce one of the greatest gut-punches in cinema, and Barry was a massive part of that.
Truly a one-of-a-kind.
You remembered. :). A truly moving piece of music that. Cheers @4EverBonded! You're a star. A beard full of stars...
Happy New Year 2017 to you all! <:-P
Happy New Year everyone!
<:-P
@Birdleson you are the best :)) read my mind