![]() Bassey said of the final note: "I was holding it and holding it – I was looking at John Barry and I was going blue in the face and he's going – hold it just one more second. Initially, Bassey had problems with the climactic final note, which necessitated her slipping behind a studio partition between takes to remove her bra. The recording of "Goldfinger" lasted all night because Barry demanded repeated takes, not due to any shortcomings in Bassey's vocal, but musical or technical glitches. Page recalls attending the sessions, but session musicians on the Bond films were separately relegated to the instrumental score versions of songs, while the main musicians (on Goldfinger: Vic Flick) were given the main theme song to solely record, to be featured at the beginning of the film, leaving Page as a background acoustic contributor to Flick on the instrumental version of the song. Vic Flick, Jimmy Page and Big Jim Sullivan are all said to have been at the sessions. ![]() The producer credit named Bassey's regular producer George Martin, but the session was, in fact, overseen by Barry. Bassey recorded the track on 20 August 1964 at London's CTS Studios in Wembley. She agreed to sing the song whatever the lyrics might eventually be. The singer recalled that hearing the track had given her "goose bumps". Barry had played Bassey an instrumental track of the song before its lyrics were written. He had been the conductor on Bassey's national tour in December 1963 and the two had also been romantically involved. Shirley Bassey was Barry's choice to record the song. According to Barry, Newley "didn't want to sing it in the movie as they thought the song was a bit weird". Newley's recording, however, was made purely as a demo for the film's makers. Barry recalled that Newley gave a "very creepy" performance which he (Barry) considered "terrific". The first recording of "Goldfinger" was made by Newley on, with Barry as conductor, which produced two completed takes. Bricusse later recalled that once he and Newley hit upon utilizing "the Midas touch" in the lyric, the pattern of the song became evident and the lyrics were completed within a couple of days at most. Bricusse and Newley were not shown any film footage or script excerpts, but were advised of the fatal gilding suffered by the Jill Masterson character, played by Shirley Eaton. One source of inspiration was the song " Mack the Knife", which director Guy Hamilton showed Barry, thinking it was a "gritty and rough" song that could be a good model for what the film required. wider than a mile," to the melody of " Moon River," the popular theme song from Breakfast at Tiffany's. But when its composer John Barry played them the first three notes, Bricusse and Newley looked at each other and sang out: ". Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley were asked to create the lyrics for the song. In 2008, the single was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. 53 in AFI's 100 Years.100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema. 2 for four weeks on the Adult Contemporary chart, and in the United Kingdom the single reached No. ![]() The single release of the song gave Bassey her only Billboard Hot 100 top forty hit, peaking in the Top 10 at No. Composed by John Barry and with lyrics by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley, the song was performed by Shirley Bassey for the film's opening and closing title sequences, as well as the soundtrack album release. " Goldfinger" is the title song from the 1964 James Bond film Goldfinger. One of the side-A labels of the US single
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