Album: The Spy Who Loved Me Soundtrack (1977)

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• Nobody does it better
  Makes me feel sad for the rest
  Nobody does it half as good as you
  Baby, you're the best
  
  I wasn't lookin' but somehow you found me
  I tried to hide from your love light
  But like heaven above me
  The spy who loved me
  Is keepin' all my secrets safe tonight
  
  And nobody does it better
  Though sometimes I wish someone could
  Nobody does it quite the way you do
  Why'd you have to be so good?
  
  The way that you hold me
  Whenever you hold me
  There's some kind of magic inside you
  That keeps me from runnin'
  But just keep it comin'
  How'd you learn to do the things you do?
  
  And nobody does it better
  Makes me feel sad for the rest
  Nobody does it half as good as you
  Baby, baby
  Darlin', you're the best
  
  Baby, you're the best
  Baby, you're the best
  Sweet baby, you're the best
  Darlin', you're the best
  Darlin', you're the best
  Sweet baby, you're the best
  Baby, you're the best
  Sweet baby Writer/s: Carole Sager, Marvin Hamlisch
  Publisher: BMG Rights Management, CTM Outlander Music LC, Red Brick Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 16

• Dt from Marathon, FlBest all time Bond song from the best Roger Moore Bond flick.
• Coco from W Coast, UsaKaren from Manchester, you could NOT be more right.
  Zippy-Zappy...WTH?!!
• Karen from Manchester, NhZappy, you have obviously never seen Timothy Dalton.
  
  I wonder if "Skyfall" has surpassed the numbers of this one yet?
• Gordon from London, United KingdomSomething quite magical about the coda. Specifically. the chord progression, and the way the sound seems to rise and fall at the same time. You feel that it could go on for ever as Carly Simon sings that widely spaced melodic line that spans both the high and mid register. The musical effect is like a tolling bell at sunset. Rolls Royce production too.
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyThis song was nominated for Best Song at the 1977 Academy Awards {Lost to "You Light Up My Life" from the movie of the same name}!!!
• Zappy from Geelong, AustraliaThe best opening to a Bond film of all time and Roger Moore was the worst Bond ever.
• Jane from Austin, Txi love this song. this song was used in a commercial for a restaurant called Perkins. it must have been a local commercial. i don't know.
• Ryan from Atlanta, GaThis is easily the best Bond song, but it's also a marvelous example of 70's sound production, particularly the separation of the drums from the rest of the mix. It's got a nice slow Bond tempo (it has to flow with the opening credits, of course), with some high quality interplay between the strings in the orchestra and the guitars and horns. This song is really like 5 songs in one, it has one theme, with nice variations in the chorus and bridge and a nice climactic close to fade out. It stands out because the production is as good as the product itself. Classic 70's sound production at it's finest...
• Jonathan from Pittsburgh, PaAnd if you listen very carefully at the end of the song, you will hear Carly sing "James, you're the best." This is interesting as the song is about James Bond, but Carly was married to James Taylor at the time of the recording. Who was she singing about?
• Mike from Hastings, NeActually, Enrique.. back in '77, Carly Simon struggled terribly with stage fright. It was so bad that she could not sing at the Oscars. She still struggles with it to this day, but has learned coping exercises to help her. Any concerts she does now are usually very very small intimate affairs with many friends present.
  
  BTW... THIS IS the best Bond song EVER!
• Michael from San Diego, CaThis was the best "Bond" theme song, and "The Spy Who Loved Me" was one of the better James Bond movies ever made!
• Barry from New York, NcThere are actually two versions of this tune in the film THE SPY WHO LOVED ME. The more well known version is the one that is played during the final credits, and that one features the long ending. However I prefer the version that you hear during the opening credits (following the teaser sequence). This version has a neat synthesizer ending and no long fadeout. This was a better way to end the song!!
• Jo from Newcastle, AustraliaIt's being used in an ongoing ad campaign for a real estate company here in Australia!
  
• Dee from Indianapolis, InI love this song. Brings back lots of childhood memories. My grandpa use to watch the James Bond movies whenever there were on TV back in the day before VCR's & DVD's.
• Scott from Chicago, IlThis song has/had an an emotional resonance that is quite singular. Carly's vocals always had a
  lift to them in her own husky, inimitable style,
  but this one is the best. The song also seems to
  have lent itself to multiple interpretations,
  and was used quite often in sports retropectives,
  typically a recap of the end of a season. "baby, you're the best" indeed!
• Enrique from Lima, PeruAt the end of the Oscar's ceremony of 1977 this song was sung not by Carly Simon but by an afro-american female singer (don't remember her name)and even though the person who presented her said that whoever-was-the-singer would sing this song because "nobody does it better", I still believe that nobody does it better than Carly Simon.

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