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Today, from the Bond on Vinyl archives, we’re listening to music up through The Man With The Golden Gun!
British composer Geoff Love had a versatile musical career, expanding from playing jazz trombone to learning to compose for different instruments while a member of the King’s Royal Rifle Corps during World War II, playing with Dixieland jazz bands, and later leading his own orchestras, forming a banjo band, and even adapting to disco music.
This 1975 UK album features strictly orchestral versions of hits from all the James Bond films, in chronological order up through The Man With The Golden Gun (including Casino Royale, 1967). My album pictured here is the briefly available first issue with artwork depicting Sir Roger Moore.
Due to a copyright dispute from EON Productions, the label Music For Pleasure quickly withdrew this version from retailers and reissued it in the UK, Sweden, and the Netherlands with new artwork. While the blonde woman pictured was changed to a woman with darker hair for some reason, the most obvious change to the artwork was that the picture of Roger Moore in the middle was nearly blacked out, showing a spy facing away and holding a gun. A funny change, as I guess you can’t trademark the back of someone’s head. 😄
113. Geoff Love & His Orchestra – Big Bond Movie Themes
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