Hello and thank you for downloading this witness podcast with me Rebecca

Kessby and today we head back to 1962 to explore the origins of one of the

world's best-known pieces of music the James Bond tune. I've been speaking to the man who wrote it more

than 50 years ago.

Well, one of the assistants said to me, he says,

see if you can do a good theme, he said,

because I reckon with this James Bond stuff

we'll do two films and a television series.

How wrong could he be?

In the early 60s, Monty Norman was a singer and composer,

mainly working on musicals for London's West End.

It was through his theatrical connections that he was approached by Albert Cubby Broccoli

to see if he'd like to write the music for the first Bond movie Dr No.

He said, come up to my office, I want you to meet my new producer.

The two of us are going to do Ian Fleming's,

James Bond novels, films and we'd like you to do the score of the

first one. So I was very busy at that time and I was just about to say give me a time to think about it you know because I'd never really heard of this

Dr. No or any of these things but look he says we're doing all the location work in Jamaica.

He said, why don't you come down there?

You can get the feeling of Caribbean music,

bring your wife all expenses paid.

Well, how do you say no to that?

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