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| Ian Fleming | Matt Munro | FRWL cover | Israeli dance partners? |
G11 Kicker: Track 30:From Russia With Love: Ending Title Soundtrack
This takes us to the kicker for G11. Surely, you didn't expect the disk coordinator to forget the 100th anniversary of the birth of his idol, Ian Fleming, did you? 2008 was the year of the Fleming centennial (May 28th, 2008 to be exact) and Fleming fans (and James Bond fans, too) celebrated this event in their own unique ways. This even extended to Israeli dance in the Philadelphia area.
Don Schillinger, using the suggestions of the disk coordinator, was nice enough to provide some celebration of the event as he hosted cartons of ice cream and trimmings during his Thursday, May 28th, 2008 dance session. And the disk coordinator provided a James Bond movie theme (which you should be hearing if your computer has the Windows Media Player) as the kicker for G11 when G11 was released in December '07.
Sung by Matt Munro, a sound alike to Frank Sinatra, with lyrics that make little or no sense, "From Russia with Love" is a relatively catchy number. There were two renditions of this theme in the movie and the front titles contained a non vocal version enhanced by a small snippet of the James Bond Theme. (and, yes, you have guessed correctly that you know a little something about this theme if you have either been listening to your speakers or reading the G8 kicker web page) The version sung by Matt Munro started slightly before and encompassed the ending titles to this movie.
Munro, who died at the age of 55 in 1985, was a British vocalist who preceded Tom Jones on the charts in England. Interestingly enough, the Bond movies have used many artists such as Shirley Bassey, Tom Jones, Nancy Sinatra, Rita Cooledge, Sheila Easton and Tina Turner who were famous before ever recording a Bond soundtrack and, perhaps, even more famous after recording such a track. But Munro is the only one known to have gotten less publicity for such a recording. Because of the closeness of his voice to Sinatra, it is still believed by many that Frank Sinatra did the vocal work for the movie and the disk coordinator was (and is) very happy to set the record straight in his kicker recap for G11.