Alternate James Bond Theme Songs

James Bond may be the most famous spy in the world. What may be about as famous as 007 is the title song that plays during the title sequence during each film. Now there are some famous ones, like "Live and Let Die", "Goldfinger", and "A View To A Kill".

There are some songs that were close to making the cut, but I ask you, what artist could had been making big bucks for doing the theme song?
 
If they wanted to go more for the countercultural market, as well as speed up the usual pace of their intros a bit, they could do worse than T Rex. Some of the lyrics could have been used without much change...

Friends say it's fine
Friends say it's good
Everybody says it's just like Rock 'n Roll
I move like a cat
Charge like a ram
Sting like a bee
Babe I wanna be your man

Well it's plain to see you were meant for me
Yeah, I'm your boy, your 20th Century toy


Granted, 007 probably wouldn't cop to being anyone's "toy", so that might have to be re-worked a little. The word would fit with the gadgetry themes of Bond films, however.
 
And since someone mentioned this song on a relevant thread the other day...

With a bit of a lyrical re-write, that would fit the normal pace of the credit sequences(I can imagine Bond's silhouettes in one of the trademark bubbles or free-floating across the screen, with a babe at his side). And the film could simultaneously pander to the original fan base of older, slightly conservative, mildly dirty old men, AND the younger psychedelic crowd, with a plot about a Leary-esque mad-scientist trying to poison the world with vaporized LSD stolen from a "Red Chinese" laboratory(sorry, but a morally suspect MK-ULTRA would be one step too far for the Silent Generation fans). Lots of opportunity to thrill the kids and shock the parents with endless wallowing in the world of 60s-ish psychedelia.
 
While I ws only ever a fan of soft rock/easy listening type stuff - and hence don't even know the songs in these replies - one song that popped up in my head right away was "Didn't We Almost Have it All."

Think about it - it's got kind of a double meaning, which may work for an alternate Bond film if not an OTL one (In fact, that would make a great *title* for one) - Bond and the "Woman of the Week" - or in this case "Woman of the Film" - getting together, something consistently spoiling their time together. Perhaps a gerat opening scene (yes, this should be an alternate james Bond movie - sorry if this is further than OP wanted to take this) of them in the rain as Bond first comes to the city in question before the bad guy does soemthing that takes his mind off her, etc.. The idea that, to the viewer at least, James Bond might not succeed and maybe they won't know that way again. But, then you also have the bad guy, who almost has it all except for 007 stopping him at the last minute.

Added to correct, I do know the Peter Gunn one now that I think about it.
 
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