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[TheLazenby]

Every now and then, I'll put together a CD project that suits my interests... and I definitely thought my new one would attract the folks here. :-) I'm trying to compile the most complete collection of unused or alternate Bond themes. Here's what I have so far - I'm not aware of any others, but in case someone is, do speak up. :-)

FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
01) From Russia With Love (single version w/ alternate vocals) - Matt Monro

GOLDFINGER
02) Goldfinger (demo #1) - Anthony Newley
03) Goldfinger (demo #2) - Anthony Newley
04) Goldfinger (single version w/ alternate vocals) - Shirley Bassey

THUNDERBALL
05) Thunderball - Johnny Cash
06) Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - Shirley Bassey
07) Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - Dionne Warwick

CASINO ROYALE
08) Casino Royale (full-length vocal version) - Herb Alpert feat. Mike Redway

YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE
09) Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys
10) You Only Live Twice - Lorraine Chandler
11) You Only Live Twice - Julie Rogers
12) You Only Live Twice (single version) - Nancy Sinatra

LIVE AND LET DIE
13) Live And Let Die (single version) - BJ Arnau

THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN
14) The Man With The Golden Gun (demo) - Alice Cooper
15) The Man With The Golden Gun - Alice Cooper

FOR YOUR EYES ONLY
16) For Your Eyes Only - Blondie
17) For Your Eyes Only (different song) - Sheena Easton
18) For Your Eyes Only (demo) - Sheena Easton

NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN
19) Never Say Never Again - Phyllis Hyman

A VIEW TO A KILL
20) A View To A Kill (demo #1) - Duran Duran
21) A View To A Kill (demo #2) - Duran Duran
22) A View To A Kill (demo #3) - Duran Duran
23) A View To A Kill (demo #4) - Duran Duran
24) A View To A Kill (outtake) - Duran Duran
25) A View To A Kill (session excerpt) - Duran Duran

THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS
26) James Bond 01 - Pet Shop Boys
27) James Bond 02 - Pet Shop Boys
28) This Must Be The Place I Waited Years To Leave (rewrite of 'James Bond 02') - Pet Shop Boys
29) If There Was A Man (used for end credits) - The Pretenders
30) The Living Daylights (album version) - a-ha

GOLDENEYE
31) The GoldenEye - Ace of Base feat. Meja
32) The Juvenile (rewrite of 'The GoldenEye') - Ace Of Base
33) Searching For The GoldenEye (Motiv8's Airplay Mix) - Kym Mazelle
34) GoldenEye (demo) - Bono
35) GoldenEye (single version) - Tina Turner

TOMORROW NEVER DIES
36) Tomorrow Never Dies - Pulp
37) Tomorrow Never Lies (rewrite of 'TND') - Pulp
38) Tomorrow Never Comes (rewrite of rejected theme) - Dot Allison
39) Fatal Shore - The Fixx
40) Tomorrow Never Dies - Swan Lee
41) Tomorrow Never Dies - Saint Etienne
42) Surrender (used for end credits) - k.d. lang

THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH
43) The World Is Not Enough - Straw

DIE ANOTHER DAY
44) Beyond The Ice (meant for DAD) - Red Flag

CASINO ROYALE
45) Casino Royale - Wilss and Fry
46) You Know My Name (album version) - Chris Cornell

QUANTUM OF SOLACE
47) Is Something Wrong - Alex Ford
48) Forever - Eva Almer
49) No Good About Goodbyes - Shirley Bassey

'JUST FOR FUN' BONUS TRACKS
50) Goldfinger - Peter Serafinowicz as Ringo Starr
51) Man For Me (theme from "Operation Kid Brother") - Ennio Morricone feat. Christy
52) James Bond 777 (theme from an unlicensed Indian film) - ????
53) The Man With The Golden Gun (no relation to the film) - Peter Cowap
54) Never Say Never Again (no relation to the film) - Bee Gees

Edited by TheLazenby, 08 August 2011 - 07:03 AM.

[Wade]

If somebody could bring this together as an album, I'd buy it. EON? Listening?

[coco1997]

I don't think "Is Something Wrong" by Alex Ford really belongs on this list, as that was merely a fan creation recorded long before "QOS" was released and hence was never under any serious consideration for usage in the film.

[Gravity's Silhouette]

Every now and then, I'll put together a CD project that suits my interests... and I definitely thought my new one would attract the folks here. :-) I'm trying to compile the most complete collection of unused or alternate Bond themes. Here's what I have so far - I'm not aware of any others, but in case someone is, do speak up. :-)

Thanks for the list. I had never heard that there were alternate versions for some of these songs and I've already located one of Duran Duran's demo versions of AVTAK just by going to YouTube.

I don't think "Is Something Wrong" by Alex Ford really belongs on this list, as that was merely a fan creation recorded long before "QOS" was released and hence was never under any serious consideration for usage in the film.

Did Johnny Cash ever record his version of Moonraker? And what about Eric Clapton and Rick Astley for LICENSE REVOKED? They probably should be on the list. I'm pretty sure Clapton recorded something.

[mttvolcano]

What about Quantum of Solace by Amy Winehouse?

I was hoping it would be released since there are unfortunate circumstances

[coco1997]

Thanks for the list. I had never heard that there were alternate versions for some of these songs and I've already located one of Duran Duran's demo versions of AVTAK just by going to YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztoEHpUMigY

[Mr. Arlington Beech]

They definitely should have keep "No Good About Goodbye" by Shirley Bassey for QOS, instead of White & Keys song.

P. S. This list lacks the song "Tomorrow Never Dies" by Pulp (which is a rewrite of "Tomorrow Never Lies" by the same group).

[TheLazenby]

Ahhh, thanks for the heads-up about "Tomorrow Never Dies" by Pulp!

And Wade - it IS coming together as an album. I'll probably slap it online somewhere when it's done.

[mttvolcano]

Thanks for the list. I had never heard that there were alternate versions for some of these songs and I've already located one of Duran Duran's demo versions of AVTAK just by going to YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztoEHpUMigY

Definitely like the one they have in it instead of that one

[jrcjohnny99]

Every now and then, I'll put together a CD project that suits my interests... and I definitely thought my new one would attract the folks here. :-) I'm trying to compile the most complete collection of unused or alternate Bond themes. Here's what I have so far - I'm not aware of any others, but in case someone is, do speak up. :-)

Thanks for the list. I had never heard that there were alternate versions for some of these songs and I've already located one of Duran Duran's demo versions of AVTAK just by going to YouTube.

I don't think "Is Something Wrong" by Alex Ford really belongs on this list, as that was merely a fan creation recorded long before "QOS" was released and hence was never under any serious consideration for usage in the film.

Did Johnny Cash ever record his version of Moonraker? And what about Eric Clapton and Rick Astley for LICENSE REVOKED? They probably should be on the list. I'm pretty sure Clapton recorded something.

Didn't realise Cash had done anything for Moonraker; wasnt it supposed to be Kate Bush then Johnny Mathis? not sure if anything they worked on still exists...

This does sound like a great project; excited to see the final version!
Maybe a follow up of cover versions (post movie) would be fun to hear as well?

[Guy Haines]

Every now and then, I'll put together a CD project that suits my interests... and I definitely thought my new one would attract the folks here. :-) I'm trying to compile the most complete collection of unused or alternate Bond themes. Here's what I have so far - I'm not aware of any others, but in case someone is, do speak up. :-)

Thanks for the list. I had never heard that there were alternate versions for some of these songs and I've already located one of Duran Duran's demo versions of AVTAK just by going to YouTube.

I don't think "Is Something Wrong" by Alex Ford really belongs on this list, as that was merely a fan creation recorded long before "QOS" was released and hence was never under any serious consideration for usage in the film.

Did Johnny Cash ever record his version of Moonraker? And what about Eric Clapton and Rick Astley for LICENSE REVOKED? They probably should be on the list. I'm pretty sure Clapton recorded something.

Didn't realise Cash had done anything for Moonraker; wasnt it supposed to be Kate Bush then Johnny Mathis? not sure if anything they worked on still exists...

This does sound like a great project; excited to see the final version!
Maybe a follow up of cover versions (post movie) would be fun to hear as well?

I'm a fan of "The Man In Black", and as far as I know, Johnny Cash didn't record anything for Moonraker. Frank Sinatra wanted to, Kate Bush was asked but declined. (Even though the finished song sounds, to me at least, as if it was written with her in mind.) Johnny Mathis may have worked on a song for the film - that's my understanding of it.

As for Johnny Cash's "Thunderball" - it really doesn't sound like a Bond theme to me, more like one of those "Songs of the Old Railroad" type ballads he recorded in the 1960s. Maybe he thought the film was about SPECTRE hijacking the "Wabash Cannonball"?

As for this alternate Bond theme compilation, brilliant idea. Why hadn't anyone thought of it before?

[Leo R.]

Every now and then, I'll put together a CD project that suits my interests... and I definitely thought my new one would attract the folks here. :-) I'm trying to compile the most complete collection of unused or alternate Bond themes. Here's what I have so far - I'm not aware of any others, but in case someone is, do speak up. :-)

Nice project.
A few that you missed:

Shirley Bassey - Vivo per diamanti (Italian version of DAF)
John Barry - All time high extended version (B-side of single)
A-ha - The living daylights (extended version)
A-ha - The living daylights (instrumental version)
Tina Turner - Goldeneye (single version + remixes)
Luna Sea feat DJ KRUSH - Sweetest Coma Again (Japanese end titles for TWINE)
Burt Bacharach - Bond Street (unused theme from Casino Royale 1967)

I have all of these, but I'm missing Redway's and Arnau's songs and some others. Maybe we could swap? Just PM me.

Another rare find is the single version of Eric Serra's The experience of love, and there's an instrumental version too. Does anyone have these??

[TheLazenby]

Extended versions and stuff, I'm not concerned about.

What's different about the single version of "Goldeneye"?

[The Cat]

What's different about the single version of "Goldeneye"?

The single version is shorter and has an actual ending rather than just fading out. In fact, it's much closer to the version in the movie than what's on the soundtrack. The single version is also the one that appears on most Best of compoliations.

[Nicolas Suszczyk]

"Operacion Trueno" and "Operazione Tuono" by Tony Dallara (Spanish & Italian versions of Thunderball)

All three Spanish versions for Goldfinger (Karina, Los 3 Sudamericanos, Kudlip)

I've got this!

[TheLazenby]

Added a few songs to the list. (If I left out the 'Ringo' version of Goldfinger... well, that just wouldn't be right, would it? :-P)

Not too interested in the foreign language ones, really. I mean, are Thunderball and DAF the only films that had alternate foreign themes? Also... "Bond Street" wasn't a CR reject, but rather, a Bacharach album track from AFTER the release of that film. Besides, the same melody appears in the film, albeit a little faster. (The fast version is, of course, Stewie's 'sexy party' song!)

Anyone know if Nina's "The More Things Change" was considered as a title song for OHMSS?

[Leo R.]

There are lots of translated Bond songs (Goldfinger in Dutch, TWINE in Turkish, Nobody does it better in Portuguese, FRWL in Hungarian...) but I think they merit a compilation album of their own. So feel free to ignore them now, because none of them were used in the films. Except:
* Ruth Berlé - Die Wolga ist weit (used as end titles for original German dub of FRWL)
* Katja Ebstein - Wovon träumt ein Weinachtsbaum in Mai (version of Do you know how Christmas trees are grown, appears in German dub of OHMSS)
* Isabelle Aubret - Savez-vous ce qu'il faut au sapin (version of Do you know how Christmas trees are grown, appears in French dub of OHMSS)
* Shirley Bassey - Vivo di diamanti (used as end titles for Italian dub of DAF)

I didn't quite understand what you're saying on 'Bond street': yes, it was on a later Bacharach record, and yes it appears in the film. So how is it not a 'CR reject'? By the way, another unused song from that film, 'Let the love come through', was recorded by Roland Shaw & his orchestra.

By the way, wasn't there an alternate mono single version of Thunderball too?

[TheLazenby]

I'm not using *every* rejected piece of music - the point was to highlight rejected title themes.

[Lotman]

TheLazenby, any chance you could add to your main post the sources (the CDs) where you can find all these songs?

[TheLazenby]

I'm having to find most of these as homeless MP3's, a number of which I got from a noted Bond collector via e-mail some years back.

I was just working on this set last night.... the two studio outtakes of "A View To A Kill" actually belong BEFORE the demos (which document the writing of the final, recognizable song) - they show Duran Duran working on a *completely different* song, which is instrumental at that point, except the singer sometimes tries to wedge the film's title over it.

[TheLazenby]

Just so everyone knows, this little project is done....

Rumor has it that in the end, I uploaded it to a Mediafire directory..... <_<

>_>

[Mr Twilight]

Don't know exactly the story about Sandra's Casino Royale (from "Art of live"), but I can't confirm if it had something to do with the film.

[Ozzman313]

Updates?

[TheLazenby]

Updates on what? This is online already. You just have to ask. :-)

[docsanki]

Just so everyone knows, this little project is done....

Rumor has it that in the end, I uploaded it to a Mediafire directory..... <_<

>_>

Hi,

is it possible to grab the link ? I found your job amazing and I can't wait to listen to this alternate versions !

Cheers

[KM16]

I also wouldn't mind if the link was sent my way. Always wanted to listen to most of the tracks listed.

[Jeao007]

I'd like the link too, if you wouldn't mind.

[Odd Jobbies]

Room for one more

[Comte]

Hi is it possible to send that link also to me?
Thanks a lot!!!

[Double-Oh 8]

Sorry for being late on uptake here TheLazenby, but would it be possible for me to also get a copy of the link? I'd love to be able to listen to some of these rare pieces

Many thanks

Double-Oh 8