Bond and The Grammy Awards
Written by Greg Bechtloff
David Arnold and Chris Cornell today were nominated for a Grammy Award as songwriters for the song “You Know My Name” from the 2006 James Bond film Casino Royale.
David Arnold receives a Grammy Award nomination for “You Know My Name” along with Chris Cornell
They were nominated in the category of Best Song For a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media. Other songs in the category are from the films “Once”, “Dreamgirls”, “Into The Wild” and “Happy Feet”.
They will compete for the music industry’s highest achievement at the milestone 50th GRAMMY Awards in Los Angeles on February 10, 2008.
This nomination is the second for composer David Arnold whose previous nomination for the score to “Independence Day” resulted in a Grammy win for Best Instrumental Composition for a Film in 1997.
Chris Cornell has 12 previous nominations and two wins through his solo work and with Soundgarden and Audioslave.
“You Know My Name” follows onto the theme songs from Die Another Day and Tomorrow Never Dies which also yielded Grammy nominations.
As to the music from the James Bond series itself, the following tunes have produced the following Grammy history:
Goldfinger (1964)
John Barry
“Goldfinger” – Nominated for Best Original Score
7th Grammy Awards (1964)
Casino Royale (1967)
Burt Bacharach & Hal David
“Casino Royale” – Nominated for Best Instrumental Theme
10th Grammy Awards (1967)
Herb Alpert
“Casino Royale” – Nominated for Best Instrumental Performance
10th Grammy Awards (1967)
Burt Bacharach
“Casino Royale” – Nominated for Best Instrumental Arrangement
10th Grammy Awards (1967)
Burt Bacharach
“Casino Royale” – Nominated for Best Original Score
10th Grammy Awards (1967)
Herb Alpert
“The Look of Love” (1999 version) – Nominated for Best Pop Instrumental Performance
42nd Grammy Awards (1999)
Live And Let Die (1973)
George Martin
“Live And Let Die” – Grammy Win for Best Instrumental Arranging With Vocals
16th Grammy Awards (1973)
**Martin is the only person to ever win a Grammy for his work on Bond music**
George Martin & Paul McCartney
“Live And Let Die” – Nominated for Best Original Score
16th Grammy Awards (1973)
Paul McCartney & Wings
“Live And Let Die” – Nominated for Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group
16th Grammy Awards (1973)
Guns n’Roses
“Live And Let Die” (1991 Version) – Nominated for Best Hard Rock Performance
35th Grammy Awards (1992)
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Marvin Hamlisch
“The Spy Who Loved Me” – Nominated for Best Original Score
20th Grammy Awards (1977)
Marvin Hamlisch & Carol Bayer Sager
“Nobody Does it Better” – Nominated for Song of the Year
20th Grammy Awards (1977)
Carly Simon
“Nobody Does It Better” – Nominated for Best Pop Vocal Performance Female
20th Grammy Awards (1977)
For Your Eyes Only (1981)
Sheena Easton
“For Your Eyes Only” – Nominated for Best Pop Vocal Performance Female
24th Grammy Awards (1981)
Sheena Easton
Winner – Best New Artist
24th Grammy Awards (1981)
(The Best New Artist award is not tied to a specific recording but to an artist who “broke through” in a given year. For 1981, it was Sheena Easton who broke through with her songs “Morning Train” and “For Your Eyes Only”.)
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
Sheryl Crow & Mitchell Froom
“Until That Day – Tomorrow Never Dies”
Nominated for Best Song For a Film
41st Grammy Awards (1998)
Die Another Day (2002)
Madonna, Mark Stent & Mirwais Ahmadzaï
“Die Another Day” – Nominated for Best Dance Recording
46th Grammy Awards (2003)
Madonna, Traktor & Jim Bouvet
“Die Another Day” – Nominated for Best Short Form Music Video
46th Grammy Awards (2003)
Regarding the dates of this year and previous year’s nominations, the Grammy’s eligibility year is from October 1 through September 30.
Since the music for Casino Royale was released in November 2006, it competes in the 2006-2007 cycle that the 50th Grammy Awards reflects.