Alternative Bond Theme "Never Say Never Again," sung by Phyllis Hyman 

Should've included this track on the 'Legacy of Phyllis Hyman' compilation cd. It's a hidden gem few people know about...

To choose the correct song for a James Bond movie is an art. A lost one unfortunately.

Not only that, she apparently did this song in ONE take! :-)

I wish this was used in the End Credits of the film! I think it would've been better!

May you rest in peace Sean Connery. My favorite James Bond. Very sad.

THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS! IT'S SO MUCH BETTER THAN THE THEME THEY DECIDED TO USE! IN FACT, I DECIDED TO USE IT AS THE CLOSING THEME FOR MY 40th ANNIVERSARY RE-CUT OF THIS FILM. IT'S ALMOST FINISHED! I'M SO EXCITED! I'VE BEEN WORKING ON IT FOR MONTHS! I'LL BE POSTING A VIDEO SOON TO ANNOUNCE IT'S COMPLETION! HOPE YOU WILL WATCH AND LIKE MY WORK.

Far superior that the Lani Hall version. Listen to both and its like night and day. This should have been the song used for the Bond film.

I AM HERE THINKING ABOUT THIS WONDERFUL WOMAN AND LISTENING TO ALL OF HER SONGS, SHE LEFT MUCH TO SOON, LETS JUST HOLD DEAR TO OUR HEARTS ALL THE MUSIC THAT SHE LEFT.

She does this song justice!

This version sounds like a Bond theme song and blows the version used in the movie away. I wonder why it wasn't used.

Available on iTunes on the Stephen Forsyth album "One More Night". This would've made a better title song . Phyllis Hyman was such a talent & sadly missed.

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I absolutely love this song and wish it was release earlier. :)

Lani Hall & Legrand: "Sure I'll put in zero effort." Hyman: "I'll vocally kick ass."

A more fitting and deserving Bond theme song......

This is so much better than that awful song they ended up using! How did this happen?!

Thank you so much for making this available and the link to the notes explaining why it was not used. Truly a stupid decision not to go with a this version as it blew the Herb Alpert/Lani Hall version out of the water. This would have worked beautifully with a Maurice Binder-inspired title design. Someone should make one up. Kudos to Phyllis for the lovely vocals and the composer.

i think this one is better than the one they went with...

This Song is Just As Good As The Lani Hall Ver so i Don't Why they Still Used It Just Such A Beautifully Sung Song.

Big mistake not having this on the film at all (or the soundtrack for that matter).

Should of used them both would of been a great end title song. They did it in tommorow never dies kd lang did end title one that on.

Yes, they should have used this track in the film

Funny, years later, Lani Hall and Herb Alpert didn't even like their version.....

Nice song - Sweet.

As much as I like the Lani Hall song, this one is SOOOO much better... you can almost see the Maurice Binder-esque opening credits with this.

@hasablad69 The writer of the score threatened to sue Warner Brothers. So they scrapped this version and used the one we've been hearing on the Bond movies. Mad, I am.

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I actually like the Lani Hall song that was used for the movie, but this really should have been used for the movie. It feels a lot more fitting for what was Sean's final bond movie(Even if it's just a remix of Thunderball) than the song that was used for the movie.

Way better than that other crappy song that they used for the actual film.

This is so lit, much better than the Lani Hall song

@EarthWindFire82 Much like the whole reason this movie got made, because of a stupid lawsuit. But it was nice to see Max Von Sydow and Sean Connery together.

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This is awesome. This really should have been the theme, it would have vastly improved the movie. Apparently Warner Bros. was all set to use this as the theme until Michel Legrand got pissy and threatened to sue, saying that he had the right to put in his own title song. Warner Bros. should reissue the movie with this song in it instead lol. Sadly with James Bond this happens sometimes. Alice Cooper did their own theme of The Man with the Golden Gun and submitted it to Eon, but because they missed the deadline it was rejected in favor of that Lulu atrocity. Christopher Lee later heard Alice Cooper's version and said that was the one that should have been used.

Far Superior to the song that was used!!

0:37 - 0:43: Is it me, or do the piano notes in this part sound similar to part of Eon Productions’s James Bond theme ?

Guys there's another song was banded about around this time. It's on youtube but I can't find it. No idea what it's called, but it is sung in Swedish or Norwegian and was recorded live around 1984. Does anyone know what that was called or if you can point me to the link? (It's not Never Say Never by Anita Skorgan)

Permanece o mesmo, James Bond, pois o clima começa pela canção tema. E daí segue pela aventura, talvez não muito emocionante, mas que tem o carisma do agente britânico com "license to kill" não se perde em uma produção, mesmo que independente da original, é isso.

NSNA was a good film, but it was limited in what it could do as a Bond film. Looking back now in 2020 at it, had their been Bond music, gunbarrel, no jazz soundtrack, it could have been bigger then it was. It was missing key elements in those things. But they did what they could for legal reasons.

This is a nice song. Not sure which I like better. Just mainly how they used it in th emovie I don't like.

was this actually considered ?.....i don't think so , it would have been on the Bond anthology...also never heard mention of this in any bond music.....perhaps a name of a song she did.....great vocal anyway..please correct me if i am wrong

think i prefer the lani hall version and thats not a very strong bond theme either. speaking of music has anyone listened to legrand full soundtrack its like something out of a pink panther movie. this film is shouting out for a special edition - new score , adding the action scenes back in -maybe a 30 anniversary release - pending lawsuits of course.

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This is a great song, and I love Phyllis dearly...but I really LOVE the song they went with. Too bad they didn't find a way to use them both.

more then likely eon went so heavy handed on this movie i think they would've not as cared as much if they hadnt got connery, there was so much court battling and the movie the wanted to make just didn't happen 20% of what they wanted to do made it but i appreciate never say never again it may not be as a big concept as what the official bond films were but this film had its great moments the just my opinion

:: I'm sorry, but they should have picked her to sing the theme song. She has way more range than Lani Hall. ::

That Lani Hall version SUCKED big time. NO comparison. Phyllis blew her out of the water!!! Take the cotton and wax out of your ears people and really LISTEN to the two versions...that is if you can even stomach making it through the other one.

Phyllis is version is about a woman getting with a man the other woman version is about a woman being the one that can slow him down just my version of it

That's a wonderful song, but I can't agree with you. The Lani Hall song was great too, I didn't find it to be awful. But this one is definitely classier.

Not that much different to the theme used for the movie.🤷

I love Phyllis, but IMO the Lani Hall version sounds like a song in a Bond Movie, while Phyllis's sounds like a Clairol commercial.

It's good, but Laura Branigan's was better.

This isn't half as good as the Lani Hall version IMO.

Good but the Lani Hall version was FAR better.