Dr. No (soundtrack)
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| Film score by Monty Norman / John Barry (Track 1) | |||||
| Released | 1963 | ||||
| Recorded | June 1962 | ||||
| Length | 39:17 | ||||
| Label | United Artists, reissued on Liberty | ||||
| Producer | Monty Norman / John Barry (Track 1) | ||||
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Dr. No is the original soundtrack for the first James Bond film of the same name.
Composer Monty Norman was selected by producer Albert R. Broccoli after Broccoli backed a musical of Norman's Belle or The Ballad of Dr. Crippen written by Wolf Mankowitz, a frequent collaborator with Norman and an original screenwriter for Dr. No. Norman's only previous film score had been The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960).
Norman traveled to Jamaica on the same chartered aircraft as the producers and many of the film's crew arriving on 14 January 1962. He met Chris Blackwell, a location scout and production assistant recommended to the producers by Ian Fleming. Blackwell introduced Norman to Byron Lee and the Dragonaires who performed the Jamaican music in the film. Lee and his band including guitarist Ernest Ranglin and trombonist Carlos Malcolm recorded the Jamaican parts of the score in Kingston's Federal Studios, with Norman himself and his then wife Diana Coupland recording vocals along with Byron Lee and the Dragonaires who appear in the film performing "Jump Up". The song "Under the Mango Tree" was performed by an uncredited Diana Coupland, Norman's wife at the time, backed by Ernest Ranglin on guitar. Ranglin also played on several other tracks. Lee recalled that most of their work was not used in the completed film but appeared on the soundtrack album.
The rest of Norman's score was orchestrated by his frequent arranger Bert Rhodes, who Norman gave half of his £500 fee to was recorded at CTS Studios, 49-53 Kensington Gardens Square, Bayswater, London on 25 and 26 June 1962 with the 20-30 piece orchestra conducted by Eric Rogers. None of the orchestrated tracks appear on the soundtrack album.
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