Product Details

* Audio CD (February 25, 2003)
* Number of Discs: 1
* Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered, Soundtrack
* Label: Capitol
* ASIN: B00008BL8W
* Average Customer Review: based on 9 reviews. (Write a review.)
* Amazon.com Sales Rank: #4,725 in Music (See Top Sellers in Music)
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1. Thunderball - Main Title Listen Listen
2. Chateau Flight Listen Listen
3. The Spa Listen Listen
4. Switching The Body Listen Listen
5. The Bomb Listen Listen
6. Cafe Martinique Listen Listen
7. Thunderball Listen Listen
8. Death Of Fiona Listen Listen
9. Bond Below Disco Volante Listen Listen
10. Search For Vulcan Listen Listen
11. 007 Listen Listen
12. Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang Listen Listen
13. Gunbarrel/Traction Table/Gassing The Plane/Car Chase Listen Listen
14. Bond Meets Domino/Shark Tank/Lights Out For Paula/For King And Country Listen Listen
15. Street Chase Listen Listen
16. Finding The Plane/Underwater Ballet/Bond With Spectre Frogmen/Leiter To The Rescue/Bond Joins Underwater Battle Listen Listen
17. Underwater Mayhem/Death Of Largo/End Titles Listen Listen
18. Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Mono) Listen Listen
On this CD:

1. Thunderball, film score
Composed by John Barry
Performed by Sid Margo
with Tom Jones
Conducted by John Barry

Editorial Reviews
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If Goldfinger proved that the James Bond franchise was box office dynamite, 1965's Thunderball cemented the British super-spy's international appeal--and further forged a set of pop culture cliches that both inspired and endured even Mike Meyer's modern, multi-chaptered Austin Powers spoofing. While Goldfinger also marked composer John Barry stamping his enduring influence on the series' music, this fourth installment finds his big band and jazz-inspired arrangements pulsing with confidence, stripped down rhythmic tension and exotic elegance. Tom Jones follows up Shirley Bassey's previous larger-than-life title track performance with a worthy rival of his own, its dramatic, Barry-composed melody interpolated throughout the composer's masterful score. Songwriter Leslie Bricusse (who co-wrote "Goldfinger" with Barry) also returns, teaming with the composer on the emblematic "Café Martinique" and delightfully kitschy "Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" (originally intended as the film's Bassey-sung theme song, but abandoned and replaced by the film's producers). This new, digitally remastered and expanded edition notably doubles the running time of the original album with selections that bristle with Barry's haunting string and wind arrangements, including two suites comprising 20-plus minutes of the film's concluding underwater intrigue. It's one of Bond's--and Barry's--best. --Jerry McCulley
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Bold, brassy score to the biggest Bond film of all., November 25, 2003
Reviewer: James Luckard (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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Thunderball was the film that made Bond an international phenomenon. Adjusted for inflation, it's far and away the highest grossing in the series and it has all the requisite elements - a mad villain intent on killing millions with a stolen nuclear weapon, exotic locations, a lovely Bond Girl, an even more gorgeous and extremely lethal Bond Bad Girl - the first one indeed, and one of Barry's most aggressive, thematic Bond scores.

If you want to put this CD in film order, rather than the total mess it is here, head over to johnbarry.org.uk where they have a page detailing the correct order. It takes a bit of work, because a number of tracks have to be cut apart and put between other tracks, but believe me, it's worth it. You get a coherent listening experience rather than the schizophrenic order the album had to have because they were contractually obilgated to present the original first twelve cues in the order Barry placed them in 1965.

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
The Second Half of Barry's "Thunderball", March 6, 2003
Reviewer: G M. Stathis (cedar city, utah USA) - See all my reviews
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The Capital/EMI/MGM release of the "Remastered" and extended recording of John Barry's music for the James Bond epic "Thunderball" is part of their 40th Anniversary tribute to 007, and it is one of the best productions of this extensive effort. The long-standing problem with the original soundtrack recording for "Thunderball" (on LP) began with the use of the album as a promo for the release of the film. The soundtrack was scheduled for production before John Barry had finished his score. The result was a soundtrack that represented only a bit more than half the score. The current release goes a long way to rectify that old problem. The music added to this recording is outstanding. Most of the additional score does represent the second half of the film, especially the climatic underwater battle and the death of Largo and good stuff it is. With what is effectively a full recording of Barry's score, one can now really appreciate just how effective this music was. Without doubt, this is one of the three or four best scores in the entire series and this recording substantiates that conclusion. Very well recorded and packaged, with an incredible price, this is a soundtrack that should not be missed.

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
Average Restoration, October 27, 2005
Reviewer: ametamorphic "ametamorphic" (East Haven) - See all my reviews
This soundtrack re-mastering is a bit of a disappointment. I like the gun barrel opening but some of the editing of the cuts isn't very good. The sound quality is below standard. If you listen to GOLDFINGER or even DR. NO these sound much better. Also, there is still quite a bit of music not presented on this CD. YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE, DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER and LIVE AND LET DIE re-mastered soundtracks contain almost every musical cut. Also, the vocal version of MR. KISS KISS BANG BANG is not included. I was disappointed yet happy to get music that was left off the original LP.