{"id":149,"date":"2019-12-20T01:34:21","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T01:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobbybunny.com\/bkbunnyland\/?p=149"},"modified":"2024-03-23T04:23:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T04:23:33","slug":"the-best-unloved-007-theme-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobbybunny.com\/bkbunnyland\/music-videos\/the-best-unloved-007-theme-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"the best unloved 007 theme songs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Moonraker - Shirley Bassey\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gt3oQN0cAv0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Shirley Bassey<\/strong> &#8211; <em>Moonraker<\/em>.\u00a0 Yes, the movie was cornball and embarrassing but the song, by 60s megastar and <em>Goldfinger<\/em> chanteuse Shirley Bassey grows on you and holds its own as a great Bond theme<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nancy Sinatra - You Only Live Twice (HQ)\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hs8uYxTJ530?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nancy Sinatra<\/strong> &#8211; <em>You Only Live Twice<\/em>. I consider this way better than her iconic hit &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SbyAZQ45uww\">Boots<\/a>&#8221; and a million times better than any of her dad&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z7368lojuUo\">terrible pop covers<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tom Jones &quot;Thunderball&quot; on The Ed Sullivan Show\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F7SWNnGECjU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arguably superior than Matt Monro&#8217;s terrific, though a bit too romantic &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YwLXDv6jXr4\">From Russia With Love<\/a>&#8220;, <strong>Tom Jones<\/strong>&#8216; &#8211; <em>Thunderball<\/em>  is pure Bond &#8211; totally sexist, sultry and full of 60s macho swagger.  Cannot ever be topped by any singer without a wide lapel tux, butterfly bowtie and mutton chop sideburns<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#039;Tomorrow Never Dies&#039; rescored title sequence (Surrender - K.D Lang)\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6zIbOL8SSCY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>KD Lang<\/strong> &#8211; <em>Tomorrow Never Dies aka Surrender<\/em>. Holy shit, is this the best Bond theme ever?  (Answer: YES) Why was it commissioned then unceremoniously passed over for the mediocre <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2BxTwJtpGYA\">Sheryl Crow<\/a> song of the same name and relegated to 2nd end title, when most everyone has already left the theater?  Its movie politics and my personal guess is producer Albert &#8220;Cubby&#8221; Broccoli was an old school sexist bastard who didnt want a gay woman doing the theme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shirley Bassey &#8211; Moonraker.\u00a0 Yes, the movie was cornball and embarrassing but the song, by 60s megastar and Goldfinger chanteuse Shirley Bassey grows on you and holds its own as a great Bond theme Nancy Sinatra &#8211; You Only Live Twice. I consider this way better than her iconic hit &#8220;Boots&#8221; and a million times &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobbybunny.com\/bkbunnyland\/music-videos\/the-best-unloved-007-theme-songs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;the best unloved 007 theme songs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,12],"tags":[28,29],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-music-videos","tag-28","tag-movie-themes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobbybunny.com\/bkbunnyland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobbybunny.com\/bkbunnyland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobbybunny.com\/bkbunnyland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobbybunny.com\/bkbunnyland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobbybunny.com\/bkbunnyland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobbybunny.com\/bkbunnyland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobbybunny.com\/bkbunnyland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobbybunny.com\/bkbunnyland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobbybunny.com\/bkbunnyland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobbybunny.com\/bkbunnyland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}