Thanks so much for this post — it's puzzled me (on and off) for decades where the instrumental "Man With The Golden Gun" theme came from on this (pretty bad) album https://www.discogs.com/release/11723488-The-London-Theatre-Orchestra-James-Bond-Themes which I had on cassette as a kid in the mid-90s (I think from a car boot sale), since it was so obviously different to the actual theme from the film (I quite like it, in its own way). In fact listening to the Eric Winstone album — I would think quite a number of the tracks in some form resurfaced on that London Theatre Orchestra album.
Their arrangement of From Russia With Love reminds me of the sort of thing a 70s variety show would play for a random between-skits dance number, where sexy ladies in cocktail dresses dance with one dude in a tux until Morecombe and/or Wise have had time to change outfits. In fact the weird honking trumpet breakdown at the end is perfect for when Benny Hill stumbles in dessed as Blofeld and comically wrecks everything.
Thanks so much for this post — it's puzzled me (on and off) for decades where the instrumental "Man With The Golden Gun" theme came from on this (pretty bad) album https://www.discogs.com/release/11723488-The-London-Theatre-Orchestra-James-Bond-Themes which I had on cassette as a kid in the mid-90s (I think from a car boot sale), since it was so obviously different to the actual theme from the film (I quite like it, in its own way). In fact listening to the Eric Winstone album — I would think quite a number of the tracks in some form resurfaced on that London Theatre Orchestra album.
Their arrangement of From Russia With Love reminds me of the sort of thing a 70s variety show would play for a random between-skits dance number, where sexy ladies in cocktail dresses dance with one dude in a tux until Morecombe and/or Wise have had time to change outfits. In fact the weird honking trumpet breakdown at the end is perfect for when Benny Hill stumbles in dessed as Blofeld and comically wrecks everything.
You are dangerously close to describing the 1967 Casino Royale
And Goldfinger kinda sounds like "what if Barry Gray had written the music to a Bond film?"