The Spy Who Loved Me (soundtrack)

The Spy Who Loved Me (soundtrack)

Infobox Album
Name = The Spy Who Loved Me
Type = soundtrack
Artist = Marvin Hamlisch


Released = 1977
Recorded = April 1977
Genre =
Length =
Label = EMI
Producer = Frank Collura (Reissue)
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:7hzyxdyb8oly link]
Last album = "Funny Lady"
(1975)
This album = "The Spy Who Loved Me"
(1977)
Next album = "The Absent-Minded Waiter"
(1977)Extra chronology 2
Artist = James Bond soundtrack
Type = Soundtrack
Last album = "The Man with the Golden Gun"
(1974)
This album = "The Spy Who Loved Me"
(1977)
Next album = "Moonraker"
(1979)
Extra album cover
Upper caption = Alternate cover
Background = gainsboro


Lower caption = Re-release cover

"The Spy Who Loved Me" is the soundtrack for the 10th James Bond film of the same name.

The theme song "Nobody Does it Better" composed by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager, and performed by Carly Simon and was the first theme song to be titled differently than the name of the movie, although the phrase "the spy who loved me" is in the lyrics.

The song became a hit that is still popular today and has been featured in numerous movies including the recently released "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" (2005), "Little Black Book" (2004), "Lost in Translation" and "" (2004).

In 2004, the song was honoured by the American Film Institute as the 67th greatest song as part of their 100 Years Series.

The soundtrack to the movie was composed by Marvin Hamlisch, who filled in for veteran John Barry due to his being unavailable for work in the United Kingdom due to tax reasons. The soundtrack, in comparison to other Bond films of the time, is more disco-oriented and included a new disco rendition of the "James Bond Theme", entitled "Bond 77".

An element of the Barry style remains in the suspenseful film sequence in which Bond and Amasova try to track down Jaws at an antiquated site in Egypt. The accompanying Hamlisch music echoes Barry's "Stalking," from the pre-credit fantasy sequence of "From Russia with Love", featuring Bond (Sean Connery) and villain Red Grant (Robert Shaw).

Track listing

#"Nobody Does It Better (Main Title)" – Carly Simon
#"Bond 77"
#"Ride to Atlantis"
#"Mojave Club"
#"Nobody Does It Better (Instrumental)"
#"Anya"
#"The Tanker"
#"The Pyramids"
#"Eastern Lights"
#"Conclusion"
#"Nobody Does It Better (End Title)" – Carly Simon

In addition, Hamlisch incorporates into his score several pieces of classical music. As Stromberg feeds his duplicitous secretary to a shark, the villain plays Bach's "Air on the G String" — famous for accompanying the disaster-prone characters in TV adverts for Hamlet cigars. He then plays the opening string section of the second movement, Andante, of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 'Elvira Madigan' as Atlantis rises from the sea.

"Nocturne No. 8 in D-Flat, Op. 27 No. 2" by Chopin crops up later, as reportedly does an excerpt from Saint-Saëns' "The Aquarium" from "The Carnival of the Animals".

Finally, Hamlisch cheekily segues his score into an excerpt from that for David Lean's "Lawrence of Arabia" when Bond and Anya Amasova are wandering through the desert; according to a documentary on the DVD, this idea was originally a joke by one of the film editors who played the music over the dailies of the scene. It became a trend, with the subsequent two films in the series similarly referencing 'classic' film music within their scores.


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