Most movie franchises don't make a big deal about theme songs. And that’s probably a good thing —we’re not sure we could have dealt with One Direction singing a title tune for “Night At The Museum: Secret Of The Tomb” or an original Grimes track for “The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.” But there’s one movie series that we couldn't imagine without its signature songs, and that’s the James Bond franchise.
The longest running continuous franchise in movie history is soon to return with "Spectre," and as has been the case for all but one of the 2 installments to date (plus upstart rival entry “Never Say Never Again”), it’s got a popular artist singing an original song over the title sequence —in this case, it's Sam Smith, with new track “Writing’s On The Wall.”
The latter debuted on Friday, and as self-styled connoisseurs of the Bond themes, we thought it might be a good time to look back at the now fifty-year history of 007 songs (excluding the...
