By the following year, he had been named Top International Act by "Billboard". In February 1961, the British music magazine, "NME" reported that Monro had won ITV's "A Song for Britain" with "My Kind of Girl". His follow-up hits included that song, plus "Softly as I Leave You" (1962) and the title song from the James Bond film "From Russia with Love" (1963). For the latter, his vocals were not used in the opening titles, as became the standard for the series; they were heard on a radio during the film and over the final credits.