007 Soundtrack: Live and Let Die (1973)

007 Soundtrack: Live and Let Die (1973)

June 28, 2014 0 By 007 Travelers
FILM: Live And Let Die (1973)
SOUNDTRACK RELEASED: 1973
SCORE COMPOSER: George Martin
TITLE SONG: “Live and Let Die”
COMPOSED BY: Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney
PERFORMED BY: Paul McCartney & Wings

Live and Let Die is the soundtrack to the eighth James Bond film of the same name.
Producers Saltzman and Albert Broccoli approached Paul McCartney to write the theme song and McCartney in turn asked Martin to record it for him. Impressed with the orchestration for the finished track, Saltzman and Broccoli considered Martin for the film’s score.


TRACK LISTING

The original soundtrack LP ended with track 14, James Bond theme. Except as noted, all tracks composed by George Martin.

  1. “Live and Let Die (Main Title)” (Paul and Linda McCartney) – Paul McCartney & Wings – (3:10)
  2. “Just a Closer Walk with Thee” (Trad. Arr. Milton Batiste) / “New Second Line” (Milton Batiste)” – Harold A. “Duke” Dejan & The Olympia Brass Band – (2:13)
  3. “Bond Meets Solitaire” – (2:15)
  4. “Whisper Who Dares” –  (1:42)
  5. “Snakes Alive” – (2:24)
  6. “Baron Samedi’s Dance of Death” (1:15)
  7. “San Monique” – (1:57)
  8. “Fillet of Soul – New Orleans/Live and Let Die/Fillet of Soul – Harlem” – B. J. Arnau – (3:17)
  9. “Bond Drops In” – (3:28)
  10. “If He Finds It, Kill Him” – (1:21)
  11. “Trespassers Will Be Eaten” – (2:45)
  12. “Solitaire Gets Her Cards” – (1:49)
  13. “Sacrifice” – (2:30)
  14. “James Bond Theme” (Monty Norman) – (1:28)
  15. “Gunbarrel/Snakebit”
  16. “Bond to New York”
  17. “San Monique (Alternate)”
  18. “Bond and Rosie”
  19. “The Lovers”
  20. “New Orleans”
  21. “Boat Chase”
  22. “Underground Lair”
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