I recently received, in time for my 65th birthday, the 2 cd expanded/complete version of the LALD score. Until the David Arnold Bond scores, I always felt that the George Martin score was the best of the non-John Barry Bond scores. It still certainly remains one of the best. The vinyl LALD soundtrack was my first purchase of a Bond score (and any soundtrack) when I was 14 yrs in 1973. Now I have over a thousand OSTs in my collection. Thanks for posting a very fond memory Mind!!
I think this has got to be the best Bond sound track ever. Its music you could play anywhere just as music and not a sound track. It epitomizes Roger Moore and his style its just so good . George Martin was a geniuses !!
Nah. For 1974 the Academy actually made the right choices, awarding for Godfather Part II. J Goldsmith's Chinatown score was also in the running. Remove the references to the James Bond theme and these generic groove tracks could have been used in any number of films from that era.
Great Mind❤👏🏻 It's the only soundtrack I know of by George Martin. Research: Eighth film in the James Bond series and debut for Roger Mooor and third protagonist (after Sean Connery and George Lazenby). Compared to the previous episodes, this one is less lively and entertaining, despite the attempts to season the Caribbean adventure with self-irony: strangely absent are futuristic gimmicks and gimmicks. A lack that compromises the result. The scene in which Bond, chased by criminals, jumps with the Glastron speedboat over the sheriff's car required the use of seventeen boats. The scene was filmed in the swamps of Louisiana and the motorboat, powered by an Evinrude Starlite 135 HP engine, makes a leap of thirty meters which will earn it an entry in the Guinness Book of Records. The film was released during the most successful period of the Blaxploitation genre and in fact contains numerous references to the genre, from the use of slang terms to the clothing and cars of the antagonists. In my opinion and that of others, one of the strong points was playing on the folkloric fetishes of the Caribbean and African Americans. Voodoo magic or Cuban Santeria fascinate me. Jane Seymour and I know each other a little in writing!
