John Barry SINGS!!! - HQ

..."You've Got A Way" and "Ev'ry Which Way" - fronting the John Barry Seven in a Brit-Pop film, in 1957. Before Bond, the other big scores and all those awards - Barry was a ROCKER! And actually, he was pretty COOL...

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• 'N'
• Roll
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• Barry
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• You've Got A Way
• Ev'ry Which Way

[aplantage]

@davidwrightatloppers I suspected as much, so I took it as a compliment. ;-)

[davidwrightatloppers]

@aplantage - I APOLOGISE. Men assume only other men know anything about music and that women merely appreciate music. TOTALLY sexist! And I fell RIGHT into the stereotype. Sorry!

[aplantage]

@davidwrightatloppers Quod erat demonstrandum, as they say in mathematics. Great anecdote, thanks for sharing.

[aplantage]

@davidwrightatloppers Thanks very much, and dito. :-) I'm German, but I'm a huge fan of British music and films. And btw, I'm female. Don't know why, but on the net almost everyone first assumes that I'm male.

[davidwrightatloppers]

@aplantage I s'pose it's because that particular number wasn't a biggy in the Elvis catalogue. But it certainly DOES contain the James Bond Theme's riff.

I hope people READ this exchange - it has been highly entertaining! Good luck, sir - wherever you are!

Mike.

[aplantage]

@davidwrightatloppers I agree that Barry is one of the icons of the Sixties, and the Bond films wouldn't be half of what they are without him. Nothing against influences whatsoever. Glad you agree regarding "Surrender". I never read anyone mention the fact.

[davidwrightatloppers]

@aplantage Our comments "crossed"! Years ago, I actually wrote a multiple choice quiz for the UK's Channel Four - one question of which was "Who composed the James Bond Theme"? The possible answers were: Monty Norman, John Barry - and a couple of other composers whose names I don't recall (it WAS nearly twenty years ago!)

Of course - most people went for Barry!

On some of the quiz answers I had put additional info. On that one, I stated that Norman had WRITTEN it - and Barry had only arranged.

[davidwrightatloppers]

@aplantage I couldn't remember THAT one - so I looked it up on YouTube (it's there) - and - you're RIGHT, it DOES!!

Of course, Barry was not above "influences" in his early days. His pizzicato strings (particularly on those Adam Faith backing tracks) had already been done on the last recordings from Buddy Holly.

But gawdblessim, he certainly made up for them later - Barry's music DEFINED a major chunk of the Sixties...

[aplantage]

@davidwrightatloppers Come to think of it, in this context it's especially amusing that I often thought that the Bond theme sounds a bit like the intro of Presley's "Surrender".

[aplantage]

@davidwrightatloppers Nobody who knows anything doubts the importance of an arrangement. But previously, people less knowledgeable would tend to claim that Barry actually composed it. And I wasn't doubting Barry's merits as a composer later. In fact, he's one of my favorites.