Various - A Tribute to John Barry (@320)

Although in a totally different genre from Gary Moore, John Barry's death was another great loss for music within just a few days; film music is now extremely poorer without him. It is difficult to think of the classic James Bond films without his music and the same applies to Midnight Cowboy, Dances With Wolves to name just a few of the many films for which his music earned them a higher ranking. The home-made compilation uploaded here offers some of his first hits (from 1960) with which he and his group had success in the UK, some of the most characteristic scores from the body of his work including of course most of the great songs he wrote for the Bond films as well as pieces from the three of the four scores for which he won the Oscar. An interesting trivia is that the famous James Bond Theme, although played by John Barry & his Orchestra, officially, it is not a track that Barry composed since the credited composer is Monty Norman.

Tracklisting:
01-John Barry Seven - Hit And Miss (1960)
02-John Barry Seven - Walk Don't Run (1960)
03-John Barry Orchestra - Beat For Beatniks (1960)
04-John Barry Orchestra - The James Bond Theme (1962)
05-Matt Monro - From Russia With Love (1963)
06-John Barry Orchestra - 007 (1963)
07-Shirley Bassey - Goldfinger (1964)
08-Tom Jones - Thunderball (1965)
09-John Barry - The Ipcress File (1965)
10-John Barry - The Knack (1965)
11-John Barry - Wednesday's Child (1966)
12-Matt Monro - Born Free (1966)
13-John Barry - The Girl With The Sun In Her Hair (1967)
14-Nancy Sinatra - You Only Live Twice (1967)
15-John Barry - Midnight Cowboy (1969)
16-Louis Armstrong - We Have All The Time In The World (1969)
17-John Barry - The Persuaders Theme (1971)
18-Shirley Bassey - Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
19-Lulu - The Man With The Golden Gun (1974)
20-Shirley Bassey - Moonraker (1979)
21-John Barry - Out of Africa (I Had A Farm In Africa) (1985)
22-John Barry - The John Dunbar Theme (1990)

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