The producers' decision to change the film's theme song so close to the release date meant that only some of the film's soundtrack had been recorded for release on LP. The lyrics of Cash's "Thunderball" describe the film's story. Jones said of the final note, "I closed my eyes and I held the note for so long when I opened my eyes the room was spinning." Ĭountry musician Johnny Cash also submitted a song to Eon productions titled "Thunderball" but it was not used. Tom Jones, who sang the new theme song, allegedly fainted in the recording booth after singing the song's final, high note.
īarry teamed up with lyricist Don Black and wrote "Thunderball" in a rush. When it was planned to use the Warwick version in the end titles Shirley Bassey sued the producers with the result being that neither version was heard in the film and different instrumental versions of the theme appeared on the High Fidelity (Bassey's) and Stereo (Warwick's) soundtrack LPs. The song was removed from the title credits after United Artists requested that the theme song contain the film's title in its lyrics. Neither version was released until the 1990s. When there were concerns with the length of the track compared to the needed titles, it was later rerecorded by Dionne Warwick as Bassey was not available and featured a longer instrumental opening designed so the lyrics would not be heard until after the title "Thunderball" appeared in Maurice Binder's title design. The song was originally recorded by Shirley Bassey.
Barry had thought he could not write a song about a vague "Thunderball" term or the film's story, so his song was a description of the character James Bond. The title was taken from an Italian journalist who in 1962 dubbed agent 007 as "Mr.
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang", which was written by John Barry and Leslie Bricusse. The original main title theme to Thunderball was titled " Mr. Additionally, the music in the film was unfinished days before the film's release in theatres due to a late change by Eon Productions to use a title song with the same name as the film. The soundtrack was still being recorded when it came time for the album to be released, so the LP only featured twelve tracks from earlier in the film an expanded edition with six bonus tracks was released for the first time when the album was reissued on Compact Disc on 25 February 2003 as part of the "James Bond Remastered" collection. This was Barry's third soundtrack for the series. The music was composed and conducted by John Barry, and performed by the John Barry Orchestra. The album was first released by United Artists Records in 1965 in both monaural and stereo editions, with a CD release in 1988. Thunderball is the soundtrack album for the fourth James Bond film Thunderball.
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