Push Play Cafe
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Push Play Cafe
The Bond Collection - Part 1 of 3
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We begin with the first of 3 episodes as we will weave our way through 6 decades of the songs and instrumentals that make up the James Bond musical universe.
You're listening to Acoustic Avenue. This is Ted Crown, your host for the next hour on today's program, episode one of three of the special series on the music of the James Bond universe, co-produced with Joe Little in Calgary, Alberta. On Acoustic Avenue, we recognize with respect and gratitude that in the Shuswalk, the land on which we live, work, and play our music is the unceded traditional territory of the Sequnik people. In the spirit of reconciliation, we acknowledge the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Confederacy, Siksika, Kainai, Pekini, the Sutina, the Layash, Nokoda Nations, the Metis Nation Region III, and all people who make their homes in the Treaty 7 region of Southern Alberta. How amazed you were by all those dazzling lights that made such wonderful patterns in the night sky. How you needed to find the Big Dipper just to get your bearings. How it took your breath away for just a moment. And then, as you became more comfortable with the cosmos, the stars came out, the really bright ones that make their own distinct patterns amongst the twinkling heavens, the ones that are so bright that they've been given names. The Great Bear, Southern Cross, Orion, the so-called constellations. But the cosmos and the stars do not make up the constellation alone. There is another part required to make the whole. It is seldom seen and rarely remembered, for it is located right next to the stars and is lost in their intensity. It is an area known as the half-light, just as beautiful and complex as its brighter cousins, though softer in its choice of hues. Silent they make a picture, impossible to describe with words. After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. Because music is built up of much the same stuff. The twinkling cosmos and halflight. Join us as we gaze at a musical constellation, a very special constellation that caught our eye so many years ago. A constellation that we think you'll be able to identify within the first few notes. So let us take you away to when you were young and unfettered by the lights of the city. And for the next three episodes, we will weave our way through six decades of the songs and instrumentals that make up the Bond musical universe. We started today's show with the Immortal James Bond theme, written by Mondi Norman, the first Bond. We continue with Shirley Bassie's unforgettable vocal stylings and goldfinger. Composed by John Berry with directed by Leslie Breaker and Anthony. The recording of Goldfinger lasted all night because very demanded repeated. Initially, Bassie had problems with the climactic final note, which necessitated her slipping behind a studio partition between tapes to remove her bra. Bassie said with the final note. When it finished, I nearly passed out.
SPEAKER_03A spider's touch. Such a cold finger. But his life can disguise what you fear. For a golden girl knows where he's kissed her. It's the kiss of death from Mr. Goldfinger. Beware of this heart. But his lies can't describe what you fear. For a golden girl knows when he's kissed her. It's the kiss of death from Mr. Goldingberg. Pretty girl, beware of this heart.
SPEAKER_00Performed by Wings. Written by Paul McCartney and his wife Linda McCartney. It reunited McCartney with former Beatles producer George Martin, who produced the song and arranged the orchestra. We bring this first set to a close with The Living Daylight, the theme song and a title from the 1987 James Bond film, performed by Norwegian band AHA and written by guitarist Paul Wakhtar.
SPEAKER_10When you were young and your heart was an open book, you used to say live and let live. Say live and let die. But if this ever changing world in which we live in makes you give it up.
SPEAKER_07Shut my nose up we too high.
SPEAKER_00In the second set, we open with the theme for On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Challenging for composer John Barry. The film became the first in the series since From Russia with Love deviated from previous Bond films by accompanying the opening credits with a song whose lyrics included the film's title. The track is also notable for the use of the mode synthesizer in its baseline. Tomorrow Never Dies is a song by American singer-songwriter Cheryl Crow that serves as the theme song to the nineteen ninety-seven film of the same name and its video game adaptation. The song was co-written by Crow and the song's producer, Mitchell Froom. This is on Her Majesty's Secret Service, The Golden Eye, and Tomorrow Never Dies.
SPEAKER_02See reflection on the water more than darkness and the death see him surface and never a shadow on the wind I feel his breath Golden I found his weakness Golden I'll do what I please Golden I time for sweetness But a bit of kiss will bring him to his knee You never know how I watched you from the shadows as a child You never know how it feels to be the one who's left behind You never know the days the nights the cheers the cheers I found But now my time has come And time time is not on your side See him move through smoke and mirrors Feel his presence in the crowd Other girls they gather around him If I had him I wouldn't let him out Golden eye not laced or leather Golden chain take him to the spot Golden eye I'll show him forever It'll take forever to see what I got You never know how I watched you from the shadows as a child You never know how it feels to get so close and be denied It's a go and a trap I got for you to die The best time I'm killed I'm an apple on the floor waiting for you to return all the threats go how you tease how you leave me to burn so deadly my dear power until you one is no fun Martin's girls and guns It's murder on my love affair It's you bet your life every night by your choice Your love is only spy and so deadly The power on you.
SPEAKER_00I removed control in the backseat. Here is Double O seven.
SPEAKER_13If you asked me to add the backseat driver, um, I believe something I do need in. I can love so much, I can trust so I said I never met nobody near my heart again.
SPEAKER_04I said I never met nobody in I just might change my mind and let you live my life forever do as we do I just might give my heart and stay here in your wrong forever as me do as me do So now ever since I've been around you can't go back to being on my own Can't help feeling darling since I found you that I found my home That I find my new home I said I never let nobody get too close to me I feel I need it Need it to be free I just might be my mom I didn't my life for baby I just might not be able to do that.
SPEAKER_00Today you only live twice by Nancy and 1967 James Bond film composer John Barry recognized for striking opening bars. Following that is written by Adele, Lori, Rue, Adkins, and Paul Edward. Adele's music with a soulful, haunting, evocative quality, is what the producers were hoping would bring back the classic Shirley Bassie feel associated with several earlier Bond films.
SPEAKER_11So I wonder coming true. Don't think of the danger for the stranger. So make one dream come true, you only live while this is the end.
SPEAKER_02Hold your breath and down to ten. Hear my heart burst again for this is the end. I've drowned and dreamed this moment, so overdue I okay. Swept away and stole when they crumble. We stand together.
SPEAKER_00Although sixty years apart, and that they have different melodies and moods, you can just tell they're both Bond songs. Maybe that's because they're both in the same key. They both follow the same chord progressions and they both end with the same singer chord played on an electric guitar. Here it is.
SPEAKER_02Fool me once, fool me twice, higher death of paradise. Now you're nervous. Another lesson. So love that I fall for love. You are myself. Fool me twice, fool me twice, how you doing for me once for me twice. I paradise.
SPEAKER_00Stay safe and love the ones you're with. We have all the time in the world. Peace.