So here is Maurice Binder’s ‘Thunderball’ main title sequence as it was planned, with Dionne Warwick singing “Mr.

Barry brings in singer Dionne Warwick to re-record the song and this time it works. They invited Shirley Bassey back to record the song but after a few demo’s decided that her vocal was too strong for the more romantic tone of the song. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang’ in that country! Barry and Briccuse set about crafting a song using this title. Thankfully, James Bond had gained a huge following in Italy and had acquired the nickname ‘Mr. That Autumn, John Barry (1933-2011) began the process of scoring the film and, working with lyricist Leslie Briccuse (“Goldfinger”), decided that it was impossible to write a song called “Thunderball”. By mid-August principal photography had wrapped and ‘Thunderball’ went to the cutting room to be pieced together. Filming took place between April and August 1965 chiefly in The Bahamas but with unit filming taking place in France and England. Now the size of the budget could reconsider ‘Thunderball’ and all the financial trappings that came with the film. By 1965 Bond had established himself and in particular with the colossal success of ‘Goldfinger’ around the world and especially in America. In this first part we look at the song that should of accompanied the title sequence to… Thunderball ‘Thunderball’ was to of been the first Bond film with production scheduled during 1961, but legal complications arose with Ian Fleming’s collaborators and the whole S.P.E.C.T.R.E concept that it was deemed too expensive to pursue and so ‘Dr. Some of the songs were featured elsewhere in their respective films, others were completely dumped. The how’s, the when’s and the why’s will all be answered.

The Bond songs that should of been but were replaced at the last minute! In this new series, we take a look at the songs recorded for the James Bond films that were binned and replaced with something else.

Mr kiss kiss bang bang song