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Instead of passing out, as Jones allegedly did, Yankovic's head explodes at the opening song's end. The opening theme to the Warner Bros. cartoon Duck Dodgers (2003–05), performed by Tom Jones with the Flaming Lips, is a pastiche of "Thunderball". Jones sang the theme during Sean Connery's AFI Life Achievement Award ceremony in 2006.
This Is Tom Jones is sold on DVD by Time Life rather than by Classic World Productions or C/F International. [32] C/F International's rights to later Tom Jones material were also disputed. In March 2007, Tom Jones and Tom Jones Enterprises sued C/F International to stop the company from licensing sound recordings made from the 1981 Tom Jones ...
Cornell stated that the biggest two influences on "You Know My Name" were Tom Jones, who performed the theme for Thunderball, and Paul McCartney, who composed and performed the theme for Live and Let Die. "I decided that I was going to sing it like Tom Jones, in that crooning style. I wanted people to hear my voice," Cornell said.
The "Surrender" theme is heard throughout the score while the melody of Sheryl Crow's song is not used again during the film. This harks back to the Thunderball soundtrack, where "Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" was originally proposed as the opening credits music, only to be replaced by the eponymous title track as sung by Tom Jones. [11]
"What's New Pussycat?" is the theme song for the eponymous movie, written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, [1] [2] and sung by Welsh singer Tom Jones. The original single included a 13-second instrumental introduction, ending in the sound of shattering glass, but later issues omitted this introduction.
An urban legend states that during the recording of the theme to Thunderball, Tom Jones held the song's final note long enough to pass out; in this film, Yankovic holds it long enough to make his head explode. Originally, Yankovic had planned to loop the note to the required length, but in the studio, he discovered he was able to hold the note ...
Tom is a studio album by Welsh singer Tom Jones, released in 1970 on Decca Records (on Parrot Records in the United States and Canada). The album spent 18 weeks on the UK official albums chart, peaking at number 4.
Thunderball may refer to: Thunderball, 1961 James Bond novel by Ian Fleming Thunderball, 1965 film adaptation of the novel starring Sean Connery; Thunderball, of the 1965 film; Thunderball (comics), comics character; Thunderball (U.D.O. album), also the title song; Thunderball (band), a band at one time signed to ESL Music