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Today, from the Bond on Vinyl archives, we’re still listening to music featured in Dr. No, From Russia With Love, and Goldfinger!
Raymond Stuart Martin was born in Vienna in 1918. Originally a violinist, Martin attended the State Academy of Music and Fine Arts in Vienna. Following the Academy, he moved to England and was a Carroll Levis Discovery. After the start of World War II in 1940, he enlisted in the British Army. Being multilingual, he served in the Intelligence Corps for six years, aided in his brother’s rescue from a POW camp, and became an arranger and composer for the Royal Air Force Band.
When the war ended, he worked in radio for the British Forces Network in Hamburg, Germany, and started his own orchestra for a radio program. This paved the way for him to have a decades-long career. He became a conductor for the BBC. He also became a record arranger and producer with over two thousand works, mostly for RCA and Polydor. One of these compositions was an album of James Bond music from the first three films, first released in 1965, with variations rereleased until the 1980s in countries such as Ecuador, Italy, and New Zealand.
The arrangements are not what you may expect, but I believe this album is a lot of fun and would make for excellent elevator music.
That is one hundred albums for Bond on vinyl!
100. Ray Martin And His Orchestra – Goldfinger And Other Music From James Bond Thrillers
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