mr kiss kiss bang bang thunderball intro

Neither version was released until the 1990s. When there were concerns with the length of the track compared to the needed titles, it was later rerecorded by Dionne Warwick as Bassey was not available and featured a longer instrumental opening designed so the lyrics would not be heard until after the title 'Thunderball' appeared in Maurice Binder's title design. The song was originally recorded by Shirley Bassey. Barry had thought he could not write a song about a vague 'Thunderball' term or the film's story, so his song was a description of the character James Bond.

The title was taken from an Italian journalist who in 1962 dubbed agent 007 as 'Mr. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang', which was written by John Barry and Leslie Bricusse. The original main title theme to Thunderball was titled ' Mr. Additionally, the music in the film was unfinished days before the film's release in theatres due to a late change by Eon Productions to use a title song with the same name as the film. The soundtrack was still being recorded when it came time for the album to be released, so the LP only featured twelve tracks from earlier in the film an expanded edition with six bonus tracks was released for the first time when the album was reissued on Compact Disc on 25 February 2003 as part of the 'James Bond Remastered' collection. This was Barry's third soundtrack for the series. The music was composed and conducted by John Barry, and performed by the John Barry Orchestra. The album was first released by United Artists Records in 1965 in both monaural and stereo editions, with a CD release in 1988. Thunderball is the soundtrack album for the fourth James Bond film Thunderball.

Mr kiss kiss bang bang thunderball intro