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Today, from the Bond on Vinyl archives, we’re still listening to music featured in Dr. No!
Like yesterday’s featured artist, the England-born Frank Chacksfield was also active in WWII. Chacksfield was not nearly as close to the frontlines. He was a pianist and later an arranger for an armed forces entertainment troupe called ‘Stars in Battledress’.
Following the war, Chacksfield went on to write several chart-topping songs and was eventually signed by Decca Records, becoming even more well-known as one of Britain’s best orchestra leaders at the time, estimated to have sold more than 20 million albums worldwide.
Despite being known for easy-listening mood music, the renditions of classic film music played by Chacksfield’s Orchestra on this album pack quite the punch, from Ennio Morricone’s theme from ‘The Good, The Bad and The Ugly” to Mozart, and finally back to a lively version of The James Bond Theme.
Technically, this inclusion of the James Bond Theme could be attached to Goldfinger, or any of the five James Bond soundtracks already released at the time, but we’re going to associate it with the original appearance in Dr. No., as neither the cover nor the record label is any more specific than reading “James Bond.”
65. Frank Chacksfield And His Orchestra – Film Festival
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