Dr. No (film) 2005, it was honoured as the 22nd greatest quotation in cinema history by the American Film Institute as part of their 100 Years Series. Monty Norman was invited to write the soundtrack because Broccoli liked his work on the 1961 theatre production "Belle", a musical about murderer Hawley Harvey Crippen. Norman was busy with musicals, and only accepted to do the music for "Dr. No" after Saltzman allowed him to travel along with the crew to Jamaica. The most famous composition in the soundtrack is the "James Bond Theme", which is heard in the gunbarrel sequence and in a calypso
The Bond Collection The Bond Collection The Bond Collection, a.k.a. Bassey Sings Bond, is a 1987 studio album by Shirley Bassey, notable for having been released without the artist's consent, and subsequently withdrawn from sales by court order. In early 1987 Bassey announced that she was planning to record an album of James Bond themes. The album was due for release 1987 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of "Dr. No". She promoted it on the television show "Live At The Palladium" on May 3, 1987, where she lip-synched "A View to a Kill" and also performed a James Bond medley. Bassey decided not