Rejected Bond Themes - Goldfinger by Anthony Newley

[gothamajp]

Not a rejected song, but a rejected singer this time around.

Apparently composer John Berry's first choice to sing his iconic theme song was Anthony Newley. The story goes that Berry used this recording of Newley to demo the song.

UpdateIt seems that I had the story about this song wrong. In fact Anthony Newley co-wrote the lyrics and his

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Rejected Singer?

[anonymous]

Not quite. Anthony Newley co-wrote the Goldfinger theme, and the recording is of his demo sent to Barry. He was never scheduled to do the song on screen.

[gothamajp]

Thanks, your comment made me go and do some further research, and it appears that what you said is in fact correct. I've amended the post accordingly.