Poor old George Lazenby never gets the plaudits he deserves for his one-film Bond residence. In turn, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is also often overlooked in favour of the campier or grittier films in the series. In turn in turn, this means one of the greatest Bond film themes is not as well known as it should be. Ah, you’re thinking, but “We Have All The Time In The World” wasn’t actually the film’s theme song. Indeed, I respond, but I’m not talking about that yet; I’m talking about this:

Brilliant. Moognificent, even. And a break from the norm: convention is that the Bond theme includes the title of the film in its lyric or title; John Barry wasn’t sure how that could be accomplished with OHMSS without producing something corny.

So the main theme was an instrumental instead, and a line from the film was taken for the title of the closing theme. Hal David wrote the lyrics, John Barry sprinkled his arranging magic over the music, and Louis Armstrong gave it his unmistakable vocal charm. And, of course, it was largely ignored and didn’t chart. It took a Guinness ad campaign 25 years later to bring the song its popularity, peaking at number 3 for two weeks in December 1994 (and I seem to remember being one of those who sent it there), since when it has suffered clichéd twilight years as a romantic wedding song - which is great. Except… look I don’t want to give away the ending, but it doesn’t exactly have the most positive association…