What's all you good people watching on the telly ? Shorter title next time !
5 October 1962. Dr. No, the first James Bond film, with Sean Connery in the leading role, was released. It was based on the 1958 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. The film was the 5th most popular film at the UK box office in 1962, but it was not successful in the USA. pic.twitter.com/jaR8beBVFN
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The opening titles of Dr. No, the first James Bond film, released in the UK #OTD in 1962. In subsequent films, a specially commissioned song would follow the opening titles. pic.twitter.com/gUMARvi2y0
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The cars driven by James Bond 007. pic.twitter.com/bpENN12DSW
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5 October 1969. The comedy series, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, was first broadcast on BBC1 at 11 PM. The group were: John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, and Terry Jones. There were 45 episodes from 1969 to 1974, and two episodes for German TV. pic.twitter.com/9RKuZIGZAE
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The famous “Dead Parrot” sketch from Monty Python’s Flying Circus. pic.twitter.com/PozzRYQshC
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5 October 1975. Kate Winslet was born in Reading. She rose to world wide fame after her performance in the Hollywood blockbuster, Titanic, and won the Oscar for Best Actress for The Reader. pic.twitter.com/UCmAA1JqAA
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5 October 1985. The first episode of the football magazine programme, Saint & Greavsie, co-presented by Ian St John and Jimmy Greaves was broadcast. It ran on ITV until 27 June 1992. One week, Jimmy was replaced by his Spitting Image puppet. pic.twitter.com/2thzJKEnSZ
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The actors who played James Bond. pic.twitter.com/NwGgZxFBnZ
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A key feature of the James Bond films is the signature song. Here is Live and Let Die by Paul McCartney & Wings. pic.twitter.com/1sa1SZpcjm
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The opening titles of Goldfinger regarded as one of the best Bond films. pic.twitter.com/XPXTLBsVLk
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Quote from Hot Lips Houlihan on October 5, 2022, 6:01 pm
A key feature of the James Bond films is the signature song. Here is Live and Let Die by Paul McCartney & Wings. pic.twitter.com/1sa1SZpcjm
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And in my opinion Live & Let Die was the best Bond theme. Recent 1s have been meh.
This list agrees wholeheartedly with your Number 1, Major.
https://www.smoothradio.com/features/top-songs/james-bond-theme-songs-list-ranked/
As does this.
But that questions your recent ratings by putting Billie Eilish at Number 2.
This list, unlike most, doesn’t agree with your Number 1.
https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/periods-genres/film-tv/james-bond-title-themes-ranked/?d
Apparently, Sam Smith was the first one to actually go to Number 1 in the UK. News to me. Sorry Sam. And Adele’s Skyfall is one of the biggest selling singles of all time. It was also the first to win an Oscar in 2013. Smith and Eilish won Oscars also, in 2016 and 2022. Dusty Springfield (1968), Wings (1974), Carly Simon (1978), and Sheena Easton (1982) were all nominated but didn’t win.
No one agrees with my choice. My absolute favourite is Louis Armstrong even if we never have all the time in the world.
Don’t like the contradiction of anyone doing it better than Nobody Does It Better but I’m afraid Carly Simon just had to give best.
Carly also had to just give best to Live and Let Die on NME’s list.
Looks like you’re in good company Major. 👏👍
Quote from Hot Lips Houlihan on October 5, 2022, 10:50 pmThis list agrees wholeheartedly with your Number 1, Major.
https://www.smoothradio.com/features/top-songs/james-bond-theme-songs-list-ranked/
As does this.
But that questions your recent ratings by putting Billie Eilish at Number 2.
This list, unlike most, doesn’t agree with your Number 1.
https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/periods-genres/film-tv/james-bond-title-themes-ranked/?d
Apparently, Sam Smith was the first one to actually go to Number 1 in the UK. News to me. Sorry Sam. And Adele’s Skyfall is one of the biggest selling singles of all time. It was also the first to win an Oscar in 2013. Smith and Eilish won Oscars also, in 2016 and 2022. Dusty Springfield (1968), Wings (1974), Carly Simon (1978), and Sheena Easton (1982) were all nominated but didn’t win.
No one agrees with my choice. My absolute favourite is Louis Armstrong even if we never have all the time in the world.
Don’t like the contradiction of anyone doing it better than Nobody Does It Better but I’m afraid Carly Simon just had to give best.
Carly also had to just give best to Live and Let Die on NME’s list.
Looks like you’re in good company Major. 👏👍
Well seeing as Louis Armstrong's All the time in the world played at the end of the film it does differ from other themes. Great tune all the same.
But not only does NME agree with me but I agree with them putting Carly Simon in second place, another great tune.👏🏻👏🏻
Did someone post here recently about Sean Connery suggesting a 3some with Carly and her sister ?
I know I read it somewhere recently anyway and think it was here. Obviously this was a few years before she sang the theme, he was still playing the part of 007 at the time of the indecent proposal.
Although if memory serves me right Carly's sister didn't find the proposal that indecent but Carly didn't join the fun. I think she was shaken, not stirred !🤣
You’re right, it was here Major. 🧐
Major Hi posted it on the Legend thread. Took forever to find because our search function isn’t really functioning. I thought it used to highlight the search words—like “Carly” or “Simon Sisters” in this case—with some colour around them. But now it just seems to suggest threads they may be in. So in the end I looked up Carly’s birthday and checked the Legend thread around that date.
https://private-benjamins.com/forum/topic/legend/?part=8
”Sorry for quoting the Daily Mail, but I think it’s okay in this case as they’re quoting Carly Simon’s autobiography and not hacking phones 😅
Carly Simon reveals in her new memoir that she almost had an unforgettable sexual encounter with James Bond himself, Sean Connery.
Carly writes that while she was sailing to New York from London in August 1965 aboard the S.S. United States with her sister Lucy, they sent a note to Connery saying what big fans they were of his work.
Connery later invited them for drinks, and the next night in his stateroom asked the girls if they were interested in having a threesome.
Carly writes that one of her friends referred to it as a ‘Simon sisters sandwich.’
Carly was just 20 at the time and her sister Lucy 22, while Connery was 35 and married to the actress Diane Cilento.
The Hollywood Reporter writes that Carly described Connery in her memoir as ‘far handsomer in person,’ but that she ultimately declined his offer of a threesome.
The following night however Lucy went to see Connery in his room and did not return until 5:15am the next morning.
Carly was so mad at her sister for this that she broke up their musical act, The Simon Sisters, when they arrived home in New York.
At the time, Carly was in a relationship with British writer Willie Donaldson, who she would later become engaged to until he jilted the young singer.”
6 October 1927. The Jazz Singer, the first talking movie, starring Al Jolson, opened in New York City. At the time, Jolson was known as “the world’s greatest entertainer”. In the film, he sometimes wore blacked up face make-up. Back then, this aroused no controversy. pic.twitter.com/2avkBffY8g
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6 October 1939. TV presenter and novelist, Melvyn Bragg, was born in Carlisle. He’s best known for his work with ITV, as the editor and presenter of The South Bank Show from 1978 to 2010 (now moved to Sky Arts), and for the Radio 4 discussion series, In Our Time. pic.twitter.com/3XKWhxonXB
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6 October 1942. Actress, Britt Ekland, was born in Stockholm, Sweden. Her best known film roles were in Get Carter, as a Bond Girl in The Man With The Golden Gun and in the cult horror film, The Wicker Man (but in the famous nude dancing scene a body double was substituted). pic.twitter.com/0eZJLYPeYa
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#OTD 1980 – 'Hattie' Jacques, 58, (Heart Attack), English actress. (b. 1922)
Carry On Teacher * Carry On Constable * Make Mine Mink * School for Scoundrels * Watch Your Stern * In the Doghouse * The Punch and Judy Man * Carry On Cabby * The Bobo * Carry On Doctor * Rhubarb pic.twitter.com/9J8C2tmGen
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Hollywood legend, Bette Davis died #OTD in 1989. pic.twitter.com/PPCfzuNG80
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