![]() Kleinman was hired by the record company to direct the Gladys Knight music video and did so in such a 007 style that he was subsequently hired to direct Bond's title sequences. It both bid farewell to John Barry, who was unable to score the film and compose the track due to surgery, and it introduced a young Daniel Kleinman to the 007 franchise. The film and its new direction met with very mixed reactions from the critics.Äespite this limited success, the theme was an important moment in Bond's greater history. The filmmakers, partly pushed by Timothy Dalton's insistence to take the character back to its grittier roots, and particularly because they lacked an original Ian Fleming title to draw source material from, wound up as a revenge mission for 007. Ironically, the film proved to be a move to a darker Bond adventure, with some of the more gruesome scenes committed to celluloid in 007's long history. A Christian and opposed to violence, Knight expressed a worry about her association with the violent implications of song's title. Knight purportedly went into the studio and nailed the song, but she was not particularly comfortable with title, nor the shadow of 007 behind her. Track Listings 3, Dirty Love - Tim Feehan 4, Pam 5, If You Asked Me - Patti LaBelle 6, James & Felix On Their Way To Church 7, His Funny Valentine. LaBelles version peaked at number 79 on the US Billboard Hot 100, at number 10 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, 1 and at number 11 on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks. The songs title refers to dialogue from the film. ![]() Years later Walden would admit that they even paid royalties to the title track composers in order to replicate "bahh-bahh-bahh!" in "Licence To Kill". 'If You Asked Me To' was first featured on the soundtrack of the 1989 James Bond movie, Licence to Kill. In order to compose the title track, ultimately sung by Gladys Knight, Walden looked to the famous riff from the opening of the "Goldfinger", which was composed by John Barry and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley. But, back in the late 1980s, the charts were dominated by R&B and soul, and so the producers looked to Narada Michael Walden, one of the men behind the sensational Whitney Huston. ![]() The resulting collaboration was never released, and remains well hidden in the EON archives. 0:00 / 5:15 Gladys Knight - Licence To Kill The80sJukebox 41.9K subscribers 2.6M views 13 years ago The soundtrack to Licence to Kill, the 16th James Bond film of the same name, was released. The pair couldn't get something together that the EON family were entirely happy with, and so the Broccolis explored other options. Licence To Kill theme by Gladys Knight, this unofficial James Bond music video is from the 1989 Soundtrack Starring Timothy Dalton. Flick was to team up with the blues and rock guitarist, Eric Clapton, whose career dated back to the sixties and Bond's on screen genesis. Flick is famous in Bond lore for playing the guitar that forms the basis for the James Bond theme as far back as 1962. Originally the producers of the Bond franchise turned in-house to a tireless stalwart of Bond music, Vic Flick, to compose the title song. MI6 readers voted in their thousands duringÄ¢012 to rank all the James Bond title theme songs.
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