Brilliant musical masterpiece!

"On Her Majesty's Secret Service" is John Barry's fifth James Bond soundtrack to the sixth part of the 007-series and undoubtedly one of the musical milestones all James Bond movies (Her Majesty's Secret) from 1969. After the submarine, psychedelic excursions of "Thunderball" (1965) and the exotic crossover from Japanese folklore and spherical space-age Moods in "You Only Live Twice" (1967) are here alpine music motives and deeply sad, romantic melodies at the tragic agents -Liebesgeschichte in the Swiss Alps in the foreground.
The Intermezzo of disposable Bond George Lazenby untermal Barry with the furious "This Never Happened To The Other Feller", which is the smart Australian model tailored like a tailored suit to the body - a five-minute extravaganza of furious Big-Beat-Drive, tragedy, Sensuality, Action, longing and catlike then creeping trumpet melodies. Simply wonderful! With the same amount of fat Grooves the instrumental title theme "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" comes along, which is also for the magnificent car chases through the mountainsides ("Ski Chase") and the range of impressive action sequences of the film used. Fats Bläsersätze, Funk beats, Moog synthesizer loops and an irresistible melody, who rerecorded not least the Propellerheads 1997 gracefully along with the official John Barry's successor David Arnold.
The todtraurige movie song not @ venues as the theme song here is Louis Armstrong poignant "We Have All The Time In The World", the better could not accompany the bitter and unusual end of the film. And also the other pieces of the soundtrack, especially the great "Journey To
Blodfeld's Hideaway "that the overwhelming panoramic view can literally feel of a mountain peak, and the even with the apparent easy listening moments like" Try "and" Over at Out "tangible threat are the highlights of this film music that does not have a single low point. Even the cheesy Christmas song "Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown", sung by Nina, fits perfectly into ds overall picture (in the German film version the Germanized version is the way warbled by Katja Epstein!). Noteworthy here is the use of time introduced Moog synthesizer of John Barry. While many other dogs in rock music fabricated still unspeakable noise on the new instrument, Barry integrates the synthetic soundscapes perfectly in the mix of big orchestra and beat band that still gives the music an additional drive.
The reissue of the soundtrack from 2003 is waiting not only as a digitally remastered version with a nice booklet with great scene photos and comments on, but also with 10 bonus tracks from the film, who made it for lack of space is no longer on the original LP. And these items are partly true jewels such as the seductive "Who Will Pay My Yesterdays" or "Bond Meets The Girls" that would ennoble every Lounge core Retro Sampler. All in all a more than successful edition of the best all James Bond soundtrack that brings the werktreuste film adaptation of a novel 007-perfectly.