From Russia with Love (soundtrack) UK charts with a different arrangement of the Bond theme from that heard in the film. The title song was sung by Matt Monro. Monro's vocal version is played during the film (as source music on a radio) and properly over the film's end titles. The title credit music is a lively instrumental version of the tune preceded by a brief Barry-composed "James Bond is Back" then segueing into the "James Bond Theme". On the original film soundtrack, Alan Haven played a jazzy organ over the theme but this version was not released on the soundtrack album. The tune also
From Russia with Love (film) and Richard Maibaum, returned for the second film in the series Some sources state Harwood with being credited for "adaptation" mostly for her suggestions which were carried over into Maibaum's script. Harwood stated in an interview in a "Cinema Retro" that she had been a screenwriter of several of Harry Saltzman's projects, and her screenplay for "From Russia with Love" had followed Fleming's novel closely, but she left the series due to what she called Terence Young's constant rewriting of her screenplay with ideas that were not in the original Fleming work. Maibaum kept on making rewrites as filming progressed.