Comments on: TELLY SAVALAS - “If”

By: snoball

snoball — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:11:14 +0000

A dreadful dreadful record. Shatner shats over this death wish drivel from several miles up. And I’d much rather listen to Charles Gray doing the Timewarp as my sing-a-long-a-Bond-villian choice.

By: Lena

Lena — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:10:38 +0000

I just heard it on POTP and it is…unique…

By: intothefireuk

intothefireuk — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:38:07 +0000

My Mum was a great fan of Kojak but even she couldn’t bring herself to listen to this slice of unadulterated shite (my words not hers by the way). If it’s really not available on CD then for once I’ll applaud a record company for showing some taste & decency.

By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:40:30 +0000

Does indie-disco fave ‘Low’ by Cracker count?

By: SteveM

SteveM — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:20:18 +0000

It could be great for all I remember. Anne Dudley also involved!

By: SteveM

SteveM — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:18:08 +0000

(un)fortunately I have just remembered Coltrane releasing a cover of Pat Boone’s ‘Speedy Gonzales’ from The Pope Must Die soundtrack. I remember hearing it on the radio at the time but polyhex (still going! fight the machine!) has no entry for it so presumably it didn’t trouble the top 100 tho apparently it did involve Jeff Beck in some capacity.

By: Alan

Alan — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:21:38 +0000

Little Richard stopped the Tutti Frutti single, obv.

By: Billy Smart

Billy Smart — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:14:52 +0000

I don’t think so, though he does have the claim to pop fame of having been on the cover of the NME in 1987.

By: SteveM

SteveM — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:03:58 +0000

Further to earlier answers, a Bond Villains In The Top 40 list could include Goldie (The World Is Not Enough) altho he is merely a henchman.

Has Robbie Coltrane ever seen any kind of chart action?

By: Lena

Lena — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:43:00 +0000

I didn’t see it either, but as I recall she played Bond’s old fencing coach, so I doubt if she was a villain (that was Toby Stephens). But who knows?

By: Chris Brown

Chris Brown — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 20:47:24 +0000

Did Madonna play a villain? I never saw that film.

By: Billy Smart

Billy Smart — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:11:52 +0000

Doh!

By: a logged out p^nk s lord sukråt wötsit

a logged out p^nk s lord sukråt wötsit — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:41:51 +0000

certainly not jeff w at 49!

By: Billy Smart

Billy Smart — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:52:40 +0000

And speaking of Brecht, who could forget Lotte Lenya in From Russia With Love?

By: a logged out p^nk s lord sukråt wötsit

a logged out p^nk s lord sukråt wötsit — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:43:27 +0000

haha gerd fröbe sang peachum in the threepenny opera!

(also he was a “talented violinist” acc.imdb which seems a missed trick goldfinger-wise)

By: Monitor

Monitor — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:28:36 +0000

I could reply but why begin it? ‘Cos there ain’t any future in it.

By: Erithian

Erithian — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:10:22 +0000

Jonathan Pryce also played Juan Peron in “Evita”, and to complete the circle, his missus in that film was played by someone who’s also turned up in a Bond film (though “villain” might be stretching it a bit) and had a couple of hit singles in her own right.

That stirred the pot nicely, didn’t it? If you hate me after what I say (ah-ahhh), can’t put it off any longer…

By: Monitor

Monitor — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:05:08 +0000

Oh and of course Steven Berkoff (Octopussy) was on N-Trance’s ‘The Mind of the Machine’ in 1997.

By: Monitor

Monitor — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:02:07 +0000

Actually Bond villains have rather distinguished history of recorded music, though admittedly not necessarily on singles. In addition to the above, Jonathan Pryce (Tomorrow Never Dies) sung the Engineer on the Miss Saigon original cast album, Charles Gray (Diamonds are Forever) is on ‘Time Warp’ from the Rocky Horror Picture Show, Christopher Lee sung on the soundtrack to The Wicker Man, and was recently on some ghastly Italian metal band’s record, and Richard Kier (The Spy Who Loved Me onwards) sang a song in an episode of The Monkees.

By: Mark G

Mark G — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:37:28 +0000

M? Robin Scott?

I was just going to say Grace Jones, but hey.

By: a logged out p^nk s lord sukråt wötsit

a logged out p^nk s lord sukråt wötsit — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:05:18 +0000

:D let us not forget the singer of NEW YORK LONDON PARIS MUNICH! the biggest bond villain of all in my book!

By: Marcello Carlin

Marcello Carlin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:59:24 +0000

OK, I’ll give Christopher Walken a free pass because of his unquestionable contribution to the success of Fatboy Slim’s “Weapon Of Choice.”

By: Marcello Carlin

Marcello Carlin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:58:02 +0000

Yes, but none of these ever had any UK hit singles!

By: jeff w

jeff w — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:40:09 +0000

“…possibly the only Bond villain”

The gauntlet is thrown down! Hmm, let’s see. Lotte Lenya sung Kurt Weill, Yaphet Kotto made some “dope soul shit”, and can we count Louis Jourdan? ;)

By: Lena

Lena — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:12:02 +0000

Back in the early 80s I read a now out-of-print book about cool as a concept (called The Book of Cool I believe - American so I don’t know if it came out in the UK) there was a glossary of cool slang, made up by the authors as far as I could tell - ‘to Kojak’ was to find a perfect parking spot right in front of whatever building or place you were going to visit. It also means to shut your car door by sheer means of acceleration, I think.