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 (novel) a cliché into a silk purse with astute alchemy". Robert R Kirsch, writing in the "Los Angeles Times", also disagreed with Boucher, saying that "the espionage novel has been brought up to date by a superb practitioner of that nearly lost art: Ian Fleming." In Kirsch's opinion, "From Russia, with Love" "has everything of the traditional plus the most modern refinements in the sinister arts of spying". "From Russia, with Love" was serialised in "The Daily Express" from 1 April 1957; it was the first Bond novel the paper had adapted. In 1960 the novel was also adapted as a