Remember This: Secret Agent Men (and Women)
A tribute to the sights and sounds of the secret agent persona of the 60s and (somewhat) beyond. Hey, we’re biased.
Have a favorite secret agent? Bond theme? Let us know!
Johnny Rivers - “Secret Agent Man”
Devo covers “Secret Agent Man”
Wikipedia - “Secret Agent Man”
James Bond:
Dr. No, the first in the James Bond series
From Russia with Love trailer
Goldfinger trailer
Shirley Bassey, the vocalist behind the most Bond film themes, performs “Goldfinger”.
Thunderball trailer
Thunderball montage with theme sung by Tom Jones
Tom Jones performing “Thunderball” (TV special from the 70s?)
You Only Live Twice trailer
Nancy Sinatra performs the theme to You Only Live Twice
Audio with slideshow. Now possibly better known as a sample in the 90s Robbie Williams song “Millenium”.
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service trailer
On the one hand, it’s known for one of the most notoriously inept Bond actors ever, George Lazenby, in his only Bond film, but on the other hand, it’s got “The Avengers” Diana Rigg as his main love interest and Telly Savalas - the second actor to play baddie Ernst Blofeld.
Opening titles to On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Diamonds are Forever trailer
Connery returns for one more before turning the reins over to Roger Moore.
Shirley Bassey performing her second Bond theme, “Diamonds are Forever”
Live and Let Die trailer
Paul McCartney & Wings perform the theme to Live and Let Die (TV special, 1973)
Sheena Easton performs “For Your Eyes Only” at the 1982 Oscars.
View to a Kill opening titles, theme by Duran Duran
The opening titles are just one legendary component of the James Bond series.
James Bond series opening title montage
Dionne Warwick - “Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang” (additional score for Thunderball)
Audio and slideshow.
Wikipedia: James Bond Music
Wikipedia: James Bond Theme
Bond Imitators and/or Contemporaries in Cinema:
Casino Royale
Theme by Burt Bacharach and Herb Alpert. David Niven, Peter Sellers, Woody Allen, Ursula Andress, and many, many others all as “James Bond” with Orson Welles as villain Le Chiffre. Swinging 60s mess.
Watch: Last of the Secret Agents
Parody only notable for its theme by Nancy Sinatra.
Watch: A trailer from the Matt Helm series starring old smoothie Dean Martin
Matt Helm - The Silencers theme sung by legendary dancer (explain this choice?) Cyd Charisse
Modesty Blaise
Bond Imitators and/or Contemporaries on Television:
“The Avengers”
1962-1964 opening credits (with Honor Blackman as “Cathy Gale”)
1965-1966 opening credits (with Diana Rigg as “Emma Peel”)
1967 opening credits (with Diana Rigg)
“Get Smart”
“I Spy”
“Man from UNCLE”
Watch: 1968 TV promo for “Man from UNCLE”
“Mission Impossible”
“The Prisoner”
“The Saint”
WOW!
Thank you! This was great!
See also cool SPY TOYS:http://www.retro.net/db/Agent_Zero_M/297/
James Bread for Bond:
COOL MC COOL:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUiwhIKy4do
August 30th, 2007 at 10:00 amThanks! This was a freakin’ blast to pull together.
Cool links.
August 30th, 2007 at 11:09 amHoney West - TV Female Spy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yww7tiyAQ_g
Before anyone outside of England had ever heard of Emma Peel, there was America’s own Honey West, who also vanquished criminals with swift kicks of her shapely legs — but rather than an amateur working for the State was the owner of her own successful detective business
August 30th, 2007 at 11:38 amhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfes3VTT2bU
60’s Super Spy Girls and Super Chicks Tribute Video
August 30th, 2007 at 11:42 amAh… yes. Honey West. Anne Francis, right?
August 30th, 2007 at 11:48 am