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Clocking in at three minutes and forty-two seconds Simon gives us a sincere vocal which moves from warm and beckoning to in-control and overpowering. "How'd you learn to do the things you do?" yet another naive lover asks the hero over the piano. Rather than focus on the villain a la Shirley Bassey's immortal "Goldfinger" or exhibit recording studio tricks and razzle dazzle as found in Duran Duran's #1 1985 "A View To A Kill" Bond theme, this song is paean to the super spy. Stream songs including 'Nobody Does It Better (Instrumental version)'.
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"The spy who loved me" is commended for " keepin' all my secrets safe tonight" in the lyric. Listen to Nobody Does It Better (Instrumental version) Originally by Carly Simon - Single by Roadhouse Professional Karaoke on Apple Music. In keeping with that theme the lyric proclaims Roger Moore's Bond to be "the best", no doubt in an erotic sense. Perry Mason may have lost only one case, but as Sean Connery says in Never Say Never Again, James Bond has never lost. The 1977 Spy Who Loved Me film's score garnered nominations from both the Golden Globes and the Academy Award, while the Hamlisch/Sager song was nominated by both organizations that year as well. It is one of the many impressive Bond themes, a song eventually covered by Julie Andrews, Mantovani, London Pop Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, Captain & Tennille and so many others. The singer's distinctive voice which opens and closes the James Bond Spy Who Loved me soundtrack lp (with an instrumental version included on the album as well, naturally) was written by Marvin Hamlisch and Carole Bayer Sager giving Carly that cachet of being included in the very exclusive club that is the world of 007 film music. Well, maybe Duran Duran did it better with "A View to a Kill." Paul McCartney probably did it better to with "Live and Let Die," not to mention Shirley Bassey's "Goldfinger" and "Diamonds Are Forever." OK, a lot of people did it better than Radiohead – just not Sam Smith.Elektra Records and their superstar, Carly Simon, repeated Paul McCartney's July 1973 feat of reaching #2 with a James Bond theme four summers later as Elektra single #45413, "Nobody Does It Better", bubbled under the top spot on the hot 100 for a few weeks (hitting #1 for a long stretch on he Adult Contemporary charts).
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After all, nobody does Bond better than Radiohead.
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Thirty-eight years later, Radiohead wrote "Spectre" for the James Bond movie of the same name, but it was rejected in favor of Sam Smith's "Writing's on the Wall." It may have been a mistake since most critics weren't too impressed and preferred Radiohead's song. It was still an enormous worldwide hit and got songwriters Carole Bayer Sager and Marvin Hamlisch nominated for an Oscar, though it lost to Debby Boone's "You Light Up My Life." No in 1962) up to that point to have a different title than the name of the movie, though the line "the spy who loved me" does appear in the song. It's also the only James Bond theme (excluding Dr. Thom Yorke told the crowd at a 1995 gig it was the "sexiest song ever written."
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(You can watch that performance above.) They must have liked it since they added it to their setlist through the rest of the year, and even brought it back a couple of times on the OK Computer tour a couple years later, playing it a total of sixteen times, odd as it was for them to be singing about James Bond's sexual prowess night after night.
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Strangely enough, the cover song they've played the most is Carly Simon's "Nobody Does It Better." The 1977 theme to James Bond's The Spy Who Loved Me was first played by Radiohead on August 18th, 1995, during a TV appearance on MTV London to promote The Bends. Radiohead have never played a lot of covers in their live set, though over the years they have attempted everything from Glenn Campbell's "Rhinestone Cowboy" to Neil Young's "Cinnamon Girl" to Tim Buckley's "Sing a Song for You." Most of their covers were played a single time and forever dropped, like New Order's "Ceremony" and Blondie's "Union City Blue." Even at their earliest club shows before Pablo Honey came out they filled their sets with original material rather than cover songs.