The best borrowed music in Bond films

TripAcesTripAces Universal Exports
edited December 2015 in Bond Movies Posts: 4,588
Forgive me if this sort of thread already exists. I searched: didn't find one. But in a different thread, this topic came up: the use of borrowed music (not written specifically for the film) in a Bond movie. I thought I might start a discussion: best/worst/most appropriate.

Here are some selected tracks (by no means complete):

"Kingston Calypso / Three Blind Mice" (DN)
"Just a Closer Little Walk with Thee" (LALD) (New Orleans funeral march)
"Lawrence of Arabia Overture" (TSWLM)
"Air on a G String" Bach (TSWLM)
"Piano Concerto No. 21 'Elvira Madigan' Andante" Mozart (TSWLM)
"Magnificent Seven (theme)" (MR)
"Raindrop Prelude" Chopin (MR)
"Romeo and Juliet Overture" Tchaikovsky (MR)
"Tritsch-Tratsch Polka" Strauss (MR)
"Entry of the Gladiators" (traditional circus entrance) (OP)
"Belle of Chicago" / "Liberty Bell" Sousa (OP)
"California Girls" (AVTAK)
"Four Seasons" Vivaldi (AVTAK)
"Symphony no 40 in G minor, 1st Movement" Mozart (TLD)
"Concert for cello in Ut minor" Dvorak (TLD)
"Fur Elise" Beethoven (LTK)
"La Bamba" (LTK)
"Stand By Your Man" (GE)
"It Had to be You" (TND)
"London Calling" (DAD)
"Regressa" / "Cholo Soy" Jaime Cuadra (QoS)
"Tosca" Puccini (QoS)
"24 é tan pou viv" (QoS)
"Konyali" (traditional Turkish belly dance music) (SF)
"Boum"* (SF)
"Boom Boom" The Animals (SF)
"Cum Dederit (Andante) Vivaldi (SP)

*edit, credit to @Suivez_ce_parachute

Comments

  • edited December 2015 Posts: 2,015
    For SF it's "Boum" in French :)
    dupond-et-dupont-boum.jpg

    also :

    MR : Close Encounters of the Third Kind theme :)

    and if we go meta !

    OHMSS : GF theme
    OP : JB theme
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