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Expanded Bond cds (1)
Expanded James Bond sountrack albums
Tracklistings
Here are some of the expanded track listings of the newly released 40th Anniversary Bond scores. Not all albums have been expanded.
"The five expanded titles -- Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, O.H.M.S.S., Diamonds and Live and Let Die -- represent EMI, MGM and independent contractors such as Film Score Monthly working very hard in not a lot of time to get Bond fans the best of the vintage 007 scores. The sound quality on these titles is STUNNING. The CDs feature the original LP programs followed by bonus sections of previously unreleased tracks."
No extra masters were available for Dr. No, From Russia With Love, or Moonraker (recorded in Paris). Licence To Kill was not included.
The rare vocal demos from Thunderball (Mr. Kiss Kiss), You Only Live Twice and Goldfinger are not being carried over for clearance reasons.
Sheet music & covers (1)
Sheet music & covers
By which we mean either the original sheet music or just the cover page.
The music PDFs the are sheet music; often over 2 - 3 MB each).
Various sheet music added from October 5, 2011 & 21 July 2012, May 5, 2013
sheet music courtesy of Geoff Leonard, Gareth Bramley/Screen Themes & Roberto Escudero
Please do not email requests for information about sheet music. What you see on this page is all we have.
Missing music (1)
The following were pre-recorded by the JB7 as part of the soundtrack to this BBC drama in 1961, along with songs by Ray Brooks & Johnny De Little. As in the case of Drumbeat, there is little chance of this still existing in the BBC archives.
Essential videos (1)
We had collected a number of interesting videos about John Barry's career on this page for your convenience. There is so much to find on websites like YouTube, that the best may not turn up in your search. If you come across something we do not have, feel free to send email
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If there was a man I could dream of,
I'd dream about a dream come true.
If there was a man I could ever love,
I'd wait a million years for someone just like you.
All my life I've been belated,
Never taking any chances, always hesitating.
Where's the pay-off? Where's the glory?
Where's the one I'm holding out for?
Why's he walking through the door, the one that you walk through?
If he isn't you?
If there was a man I could dream of,
I'd dream about a dream come true.
If there was a man I could ever love,
I'd wait a million years for someone just like you.
Happy endings never find me,
I put all my fantasies and hopes of love behind me.
Saw my moment overdoomed, but,
If there was a man out there for me,
I wish it would be someone who could love me too,
If someone was you.
John Barry
Chrissie Hynde
Chrissie Hynde & The Pretenders
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Where has everybody gone?
I've got this feeling, God, am I here on my own?
Where's my support now, where's the ranks of the strong?
In this faceless crowd, where can I belong?
Everybody's gone insane to catch a plane to help the heavens closer, oh,
They want the kingdom but they don't want the king, they want his throne,
There's no time, there's no time at all.
Where has everybody gone?
With great pleasure I sing your national song,
Because your beautiful land will soon be long gone,
And the ashes of your memoirs will be strewn across the lawn.
Hack your face, save your case, reserve your plane in the everafter, oh,
Cause hallowed halls are lined with walls,
That are cracked with delirious laughter,
There's no time, there's no time at all.
Where has everybody gone?
There's no time, there's no time at all,
You won't survive and soon be long gone, Gone.
Gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, Gone, gone, gone, gone, gone,
Gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone.
John Barry
Chrissie Hynde
Chrissie Hynde & The Pretenders
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(corrections are welcome...)
Hey driver where're we going? I swear my nerves are showing
Set my hopes up way too high, the living's in the way we die.
Comes the morning and the headlights fade away
Hundred thousand people I'm the one they frame.
I've been waiting long for one of us to say:
Save the darkness let it never fade away -
In the living daylights
in the living daylights.
Alright, hold on tight now
it's down, down to the wire
Get your hopes up way too high
The living's in the way we die.
Comes the morning and the headlights fade away
Hundred thousand changes, everything's the same.
I've been waiting long for one of us to say:
Save the darkness, let it never fade away -
In the living daylights
living daylights
living daylights. Comes the morning and the headlights fade away
Hundred thousand people, I'm the one they frame
In the living daylights
in the living daylights. The Living daylights
Set your hopes up way too high
The Living daylights
The living's in the way we die
The Living daylights
Set your hopes up way too high
The Living daylights
The living's in the way we die
Pal Waaktaar, John Barry
peformed by a-ha
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You've been taken by the city
The oldest story in the world
You come for the gold
And end up bought and sold
You can't seem to make no difference
With all the lies that you've been told
What you don't know is...
You're the best man in the world
There's more than meets the eye
There's so much you don't see
Like the power of your heart
Driving your destiny
Magic takes what she deserves
A lesser heart would lose its nerve
You've been taken by the city
But you've done better than you know
You're part of the sky
You're part of the street
You've got the talent to satisfy me
What you don't know is...
You're the best man in the world
Best man in the world
Best man in the world
There's more than meets the eye
There's so much you don't see
Like the power of your heart
Driving your destiny
Magic takes what she deserves
A lesser heart would lose its nerve
You've been taken by the city
But you've done better than you know
You're part of the sky
You're part of the street
You've got the talent to satisfy me
What you don't know is...
You're the best man in the world
Best man in the world
Best man in the world
Best man in the world
Best man in the world
Best man in the world
Performed by Ann Wilson
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A song I know so well
The music of goodbye again
It's there each time we say hello
As always there's no reason why again
You kiss me with your eyes
And in your arms I fly again
But even as we touch the clouds
There in the quiet is goodbye again
Perhaps the way I hold you
Makes you afraid I'll hold you
Makes you afraid to love me, love me
As through the night we dance
The tender dance of try again
I hear it playing softly and sadly
The music of goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
John Barry
Alan & Marilyn Bergman
sung by Al Jarreau, Melissa Manchester
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Meeting you, with a view to a kill,
Face to face, in secret places. Feel the chill.
Nightfall covers me, but you know,
the plans I'm making still over sea.
Could it be the whole earth opening wide
A sacred why? A mystery gaping inside
The weekends; why?
Until we dance into the fire, that fatal kiss is all we need.
Dance into the fire to fatal sounds of broken dreams.
Dance into the fire; that fatal kiss is all we need.
Dance into the fire.
Choice for you is the view to a kill.
Between the shades, assassination standing still.
The first crystal tears fall as snowflakes on your body,
First time in years to drench your skin with lover's rosy stain.
A chance to find a phoenix for the flame,
A chance to die, but can we
Dance into the fire, that fatal kiss is all we need.
Dance into the fire to fatal sounds of broken dreams.
Dance into the fire; That fatal kiss is all we need.
Dance into the fire, when all we see is a view to a kill.
John Barry
Duran Duran
peformed by Duran Duran
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All I wanted was a sweet distraction for an hour or two.
Had no intention to do the things we've done.
Funny how it always goes with love, when you don't look, you find.
But then we're two of a kind, we move as one.
We're an all time high, we'll change all that's gone before.
Doing so much more than falling in love.
On an all time high, we'll take on the world and wait.
So hold on tight, let the flight begin.
I don't want to waste a waking moment; I don't want to sleep.
I'm in so strong and so deep, and so are you.
In my time I've said these words before, but now I realize
My heart was telling me lies, for you they're true.
We're an all time high, we'll change all that's gone before.
Doing so much more than falling in love.
On an all time high, we'll take on the world and wait.
So hold on tight, let the flight begin.
So hold on tight, let the flight begin.
We're an all time high.
John Barry
Tim Rice
sung by Rita Coolidge
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Letting go of a dream
You dream day and night
Changing ways
When your ways are no longer right
Holding back
Just as hard as chasing a star
And true love can be love from afar
Letting go, turning 'round, and walking away
From the face that you long to face every day
May not make sense right now
But in time it will
For true love knows just when to stand still
Well, you can't hold a river
Or fly like an eagle
Or capture the wind rolling by
And the love that you hold out
Is not worth the taking
And if you are wise
Then you won't even try
Letting go, saying no
Is so hard to do
Think of what's best for her
Not what's best for you
And if you can, you've found love
Forever you know
It's only your hands
Letting go
And you can't hold a river
Or fly like an eagle
Or capture the wind rolling by
And the love that you hold out
Is not worth the taking
And if you are wise
Then you won't even try
Letting go, saying no
Is so hard to do
Think of what's best for her
Not what's best for you
And if you can, you've found love
Forever you know
'Cause it's only your hands
Letting go
It's only your hands
Letting go
Music John Barry
Lyrics Don Black
Performed by Glenn Campbell
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There is some feeling
is breaking my heart
who knows
if somebody cares
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One dream at a time, day to day, night to night.
This time round we just might get it right.
One song at a time, what's the rush, why pretend?
Being sure makes more sense in the end.
The looks, the words, the feelings,
Feel true to me, can't stand this waiting.
Your eyes tell me I found you.
When I'm around you're all I see.
One dream at a time, no, that's too hard to do.
Forget all that I had said to you.
True love can take more than one dream at a time.
Music John Barry
Original Lyrics: Don Black
vocal: Jody Foster
More...
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Dreams -
You seem so far away
Shadows of yesterday
haunt my life
Dreams -
I can't recall their names
I thought they'd never change
Some dreams never die
Still they part...
We choose to turn the page
Sometimes they lose their way
From our hearts.
Dreams -
They say they don't come true
But my heart remembers you
Some dreams never die
You'll come back in the night..
You'll come back in the night..
close your eyes..
close your eyes..
Dreams -
They say they don't come true
But my heart remembers you
Some dreams never die
You'll come back in the night..
You'll come back in the night..
Close your eyes..
Close your eyes..
John Barry,
performed by Sarah Brightman
(from a demo recording)
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Where are you? Why do you hide?
Where is that moonlight trail that leads to your side?
Just like the Moonraker goes in search of his dream of gold,
I search for love, for someone to have and hold.
I've seen your smile in a thousand dreams,
Felt your touch and it always seems
You love me, You love me.
Where are you? When will we meet?
Take my unfinished life and make it complete.
Just like the Moonraker knows his dream will come true someday,
I know that you are only a kiss away.
I've seen your smile in a thousand dreams,
Felt your touch and it always seems
You love me, You love me.
John Barry
Hal David
sung by Shirley Bassey
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Will this be the song I'll be singing tomorrow?
Will the notes from some magical flute sail on into the sky?
Is this a glad song?
Makes my heart go crazy, mad song?
Or will the song turn to silence and leave us?
A passing theme disremembered to grieve us?
Will this be the song I'll be singing tomorrow?
Will the piper be paid for the tunes that he played by and by?
Is this the best rhyme?
Major minor one in one time?
Or will the tune fall from favor forever?
A yesternight's song of past times together?
Will this be the song I'll be singing tomorrow?
Music and lyrics John Barry
Performed by Colleen Camp
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Down deep inside
There's a place in me I'm yearning to explore
Look in my eyes and remember wine, the music and amour
The days grow stronger and longer with every glance.
It's what Astaire and the dance were to fine romance,
as dancers dance so close, deep inside
to our dream of dreams.
Our theme of themes: romance.
Yes I'm falling. Watch me falling
Something warm is turning inside of me.
Something warm is burning inside of me.
Something warm etc.
Slow version:
Down deep inside
There's a place in me I'm yearning to explore
Look in my eyes and remember wine, the music and amour
The days grow stronger and longer with every glance.
It's what Astaire and the dance were to fine romance,
as dancers dance so close, deep inside
to our dream of dreams.
Our theme of themes: romance.
Yes I'm falling. Watch me falling
Something warm is turning inside of me.
Something warm is burning inside of me.
Take me with you
I'll come with you
So deep inside
to our dream of dreams.
Our theme of themes: romance.
Something warm is turning inside of me (Fade out)
John Barry
Donna Summer
Sung by Donna Summer
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