{"id":2372,"date":"2009-02-15T17:33:44","date_gmt":"2009-02-15T22:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=2372"},"modified":"2009-02-15T17:33:44","modified_gmt":"2009-02-15T22:33:44","slug":"monty-norman-and-the-james-bond-theme-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2372","title":{"rendered":"Monty Norman and the James Bond theme song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple months ago I stumbled on an intriguing connection. Monty Norman who is credited with the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_James_Bond_Theme\">theme song for James Bond<\/a> apparently adapted it from the score for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montynorman.com\/music\/music01.asp\">Bad Sign, Good Sign<\/a>, a tune that he had written for an ill-fated stage version of Naipal&#8217;s &#8220;A House for Mr Biswas.&#8221; See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montynorman.com\/jamesbond\/default.asp\">Monty Norman &#8211; The first man of James Bond music<\/a>. That the James Bond theme song turns out to be based on a song meant to be sung by Mr Biswas is some sort of post-colonial irony. <\/p>\n<p>Here are the lyrics to Bad Sign, Good Sign start,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I-I was born with this unlu-ucky sneeze and what is wo-orse I came into the the wo-orld the wrong way round. Pundits all agree that I-I&#8217;m the reason why&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple months ago I stumbled on an intriguing connection. Monty Norman who is credited with the theme song for James Bond apparently adapted it from the score for Bad Sign, Good Sign, a tune that he had written for an ill-fated stage version of Naipal&#8217;s &#8220;A House for Mr Biswas.&#8221; See Monty Norman &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2372\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monty Norman and the James Bond theme song<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,29,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-playful-or-cool","category-science-fiction","category-streaming-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}