I was starting to get frightened. Could I be having a professional and a private life at one and the same time? It was the first theme song in the James Bond series to be titled differently from the name of the movie, although the title is in the lyrics: The song met immediate success and is featured in numerous movies including Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Little Black Book, Lost in Translation and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004). What more could you want? The other four were "Live and Let Die" in 1973, "For Your Eyes Only" in 1981, "Skyfall", and "Writing on the Wall". Frontman Thom Yorke claimed in a bootleg recording of a live performance in 1995 that this is the "sexiest song that was ever written".[23]. And out of that, after this bombastic beginning, comes the song, you know “Nobody Does it Better” — ” Marvin Hamlisch (1944–2012) Watch: The Spy Who Loved Me — Austria Ski Chase With its megalomaniac villain (complete with great henchman – Richard Kiel’s Jaws), beautiful girls, exotic locations, memorable quips, death-by-shark, glorious production design, all the classic Bond … It was recorded by Carly Simon as the theme song for the 1977 James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me. The album’s first score track, “Bond 77″, saw the composer mixing the classic Bond theme with his own new theme for the character, with a complete disco makeover. The theme song "Nobody Does It Better" was composed by Marvin Hamlisch with lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager and was performed by Carly Simon. Llewelyn had portrayed Q in every Bond film to that point, with the exceptions of Dr. No and Live and Let Die. The main theme by Simon also differs in the film; it has a fade out on the album/single but in the film's opening titles, it has a more abrupt ending, finishing with a long electronic note. "Nobody Does It Better" has been covered a number of times and has been featured in many non-Bond films, including Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), performed by 8mm. "Skyfall" went on to win the award in 2013 and "Writing on the Wall" won in 2016. John Barry couldn’t score the film; for the first time, the job went to an American composer, the great Marvin Hamlisch. We became inseparable. 7 on the UK Singles Chart. I think this song is — you know- Bond’s bible” — The Late Composer Marvin Hamlisch. It was one of five Bond theme songs to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. The third and probably finest of Roger Moore’s James Bond films is titled: The Spy Who Loved Me. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Spy_Who_Loved_Me_(soundtrack)&oldid=982451987, Short description is different from Wikidata, Album articles lacking alt text for covers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, "Nobody Does It Better (Instrumental)" – 4:43, "Nobody Does It Better (End Title)" – Carly Simon – 3:25, This page was last edited on 8 October 2020, at 07:03. Among the most successful Bond theme songs, "Nobody Does It Better" received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song where it lost to "You Light Up My Life", as well as a Golden Globe Award nomination. We had more offers for film that we could handle now, and so we moved to California and started concentrating feverishly on song after song. It was the first Bond theme song to be titled differently from the name of the film since Dr. No, although the phrase "the spy who loved me" is included in the lyrics. In 1977 Britain had been seduced by disco music and the Sovereign’s Jubilee. Remarks from Composer Marvin Hamlisch: How composing for this film came about: An offer arrived to write the music for the James Bond thriller “The Spy Who Loved Me,” I grabbed it. 1; however, its chart run was two months shorter than that of "Nobody Does It Better". It was recorded by Carly Simon as the theme song for the 1977 James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me. The Music of Marvin Hamlisch — They’re Playing Our Song (Musical, 1978) Get License for this Musical. .mw-parser-output .awards-table td:last-child{text-align:center}, This article is about the song by Carly Simon. 2" by Chopin crops up later, when Bond first meets Stromberg, as reportedly does an excerpt from Saint-Saëns' "The Aquarium" from The Carnival of the Animals. In the 1989 VHS release of Baseball: Funny Side Up! In both versions, it was a choral arrangement of the piece. 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). It is a cue that was recorded several times specifically for different moments of the film (the opening ski chase, the car chase on land, then underwater and the gun battle with the troops on the Liparus). Floyd Cramer covered the song as an easy listening piano version. This intense music is the background for James Bond trying to escape from a russian team in the austrian mountains. On the NFL pre-game show The NFL Today, a feature about Payton, with song introducing and closing the piece, became synonymous with Payton, particularly the end of the song where Simon laments how "Sweetness you're the best". "Sweetness" was a nickname for Payton. [31], In July 2019, singer Mick Hucknall performed a rendition of the song for the last edition of the BBC One current affairs programme This Week, dedicating it to presenter Andrew Neil and changing the lyrics to "Andrew, you're the best". [29], In 2017, Mike Viola (featuring Red Bank Catholic) covered the song on the multi-artist compilation album, Songs, Bond Songs: The Music Of 007.[30]. — Composer Marvin Hamlisch (1944–2012). Hamlisch’s score marked a real departure for the series in some ways, while retaining enough of the classic Barry sound to mean that it can certainly be considered a vintage James Bond score today. "Skyfall" went on to win the award in 2013 and "Writing on the Wall" w… In 2004, the song was also honored by the American Film Institute as the 67th greatest song as part of their 100 Years Series. Teaser posters for the 1983 Bond film, Octopussy, featured the tagline: "Nobody does it better... thirteen times" (this was the 13th official James Bond film). "Nobody Does It Better" became a major worldwide hit, spending three weeks at No. For other uses, see, Recording Academy - Grammy Awardshttps://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/carole-bayer-sager/5930, The Very Best of Carly Simon: Nobody Does It Better, Shaken & Stirred: The David Arnold James Bond Project, Learn how and when to remove this template message, "James Bond Movie Theme Songs, Ranked Worst to Best", "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada", "Top 100 Hits of 1977/Top 100 Songs of 1977", "Billboard Easy Listening Charts Singles", "On the scene: Celine Dion live in Las Vegas", "Seven Second Delay with Ken and Andy: Playlist from June 5, 2013", "This Week final show: emotional moment Mick Hucknall and live audience serenade Andrew Neil with 'Nobody Does It Better, "British single certifications – Carly Simon – Nobody Does It Better", "American single certifications – Carly Simon – Nobody Does It Better", Recording Industry Association of America, https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/carly-simon, Songs trom the Trees (A Musical Memoir Collection), This Is My Life (Music from the Motion Picture), That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be, Son of a Gun (I Betcha Think This Song Is About You), The Simon Sisters Sing the Lobster Quadrille and Other Songs for Children, Winkin', Blinkin' and Nod: The Kapp Recordings, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nobody_Does_It_Better&oldid=986760146, Billboard Adult Contemporary number-one singles, RPM Adult Contemporary number-one singles, Song recordings produced by Richard Perry, Pages using infobox song with unknown parameters, Articles needing additional references from July 2013, All articles needing additional references, Certification Table Entry usages for United Kingdom, Pages using certification Table Entry with shipments figures, Certification Table Entry usages for United States, Pages using certification Table Entry with shipments footnote, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 2 November 2020, at 21:09. Lyrics poured out of her. 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", titled "Bond 77" which Hamlisch admitted was somewhat influenced by "You Should Be Dancing" by The Bee Gees [1]. In 2004, it was honored by the American Film Institute as the 67th greatest song as part of their 100 Years Series.

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