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Moonraker is the 1979 soundtrack for the eleventh James Bond film of the same name. Moonraker was the third of the three Bond films for which the theme song was performed by Shirley Bassey, after Goldfinger and Diamonds Are Forever. Frank Sinatra was considered for the vocals, before Johnny Mathis was approached and offered the opportunity. Mathis was unhappy about the song and withdrew from the project, leaving the producers scrambling for a replacement. Paul Williams recorded an early version of the title theme with different lyrics that were not used in the final version. Kate Bush declined as she was due to embark on her British The Tour of Life, so John Barry offered the song to Bassey just weeks before the release date. As a result, Bassey made the recordings at very short notice and never regarded the song 'as her own' as she had never had the chance to perform it or promote it first. Indeed, Bassey has seldom performed the song live in comparison to her other two Bond themes, "Goldfinger" and "Diamonds Are Forever". The film uses two versions of the title theme song, a ballad version heard over the main titles, and a disco version for the end titles. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonrak...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)