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For tonight’s Bond on Vinyl post, we’re listening to music from the first four James Bond films, including Thunderball!
Elliott Fisher was a session musician and arranger, but years before leading his own orchestra, he was best known for being a concert violinist. Fisher did not play just any old violin, but he was the proud owner of a Stradivarius violin. You know, those string instruments built in Italy in the 17th and early 18th centuries that now can sell for millions of dollars.
So, in 1949, Fisher stopped at a restaurant for dinner and hid the Stradivarius in his automobile. Unfortunately, the vehicle was stolen during his meal, and when his car was recovered, the priceless violin was missing. The violin was recovered, undamaged, by the insurance company, which offered a reward for its return, but this was after they had paid Fisher $50,000 for his claim.
In 1957, after Fisher became a professor of music at Denver University, he was asked to create spooky sounds for a sci-fi/horror film, ‘Kronos’. As this was still years before the desired creepy sounds could be created on a Moog synthesizer, Fisher created the soundscape with his violin. This led to Fisher getting jobs creating more spooky sounds for film and television, where he played violin during recording sessions. Capitol Records then hired Fisher for this 1966 compilation album of exotica-sounding themes from the spy genre, Bang! Bang! Bang!’ Besides the theme to ‘Our Man Flint,’ the remaining ten tracks are from the first four James Bond films, including the Thunderball theme and Mister Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.
136. Elliott Fisher And His Orchestra – Bang! Bang! Bang!
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