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From: West18john{at}webtv.net (John)
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Subject: Re: Will the other US Beatles albums get released in the future
 too?
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>It sure sounds like the James Bond Theme to
>me, however abbreviated and slightly altered it
>might be. 
Good gracious, Mr. Allen, trust me, it most definitely is NOT the "James
Bond Theme," either abbreviated or altered. I have listened to both for
years, and although the piece used as the intro to the Capitol LP
"Help!" could be described as only slightly similar in instrumentation,
it doesn't have the same melody, and the "James Bond Theme" never used
an instrument that even vaguely sounded like a sitar anywhere in the
original pre-1965 recordings of the "theme' on "Dr No,"
"From Russia
With Love," or "Goldfinger." The "Help!" intro
could be described as
something with the same general flavor, but that's as far as it goes. 

I think Ken Thorne, who is the composer of original compositions, and
adaptor of Beatles songs into background instrumentals on the film, (and
who worked with director Richard Lester on later films), used the piece
originally in a scene where the bad guys, Leo McKern in particular, jump
into a van outside the Beatles apartment and take off. The music piece
is longer in the film, and if you can track down a copy, you can see and
hear it for yourself. Just because a piece of music 'sounds like'
another, it doesn't mean it is one and the same.

John

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