1967 REMASTERED CLIP (1967 Bassey and Basie TV Special)
This Soundtrack Theme Song titled, "The Liquidator" is from the same genre of movie as James Bond Count Basie and his Orchestra provides all the music on this TV Special
Shirley recorded and released this song as a Columbia single back in 1966. It was then included as the theme song on the Soundtrack of the movie, 'The Liquidator' in 1968. Shirley recorded two version of this song. 1) The Liquidator, 2) My Liquidator. The song, "My Liquidator" is a soft while "The Liquidator" is a huge belting number as only Shirley can deliver.
ABOUT the movie, 'The Liquidator':
The Liquidator is a 1965 MGM film starring Rod Taylor as Brian "Boysie" Oakes, Trevor Howard as his Intelligence Chief Mostyn and Jill St. John as Mostyn's secretary Iris MacIntosh. It was based on the first of a series of Boysie Oakes novels by John Gardner The Liquidator (novel).
The film follows John Gardner's 1964 novel closely. The novel begins at the end of World War II when British Tank Corps Sergeant Oakes unwittingly saves British Intelligence Major Mostyn from an assassination attempt in Paris.
Twenty years later Mostyn's memories have elevated Oakes into a fearless master assassin when nothing could be further from the truth. He recruits Oakes into the Secret Service where after a training course, he is given the code name "L" whilst HM Government provides him with an enviable lifestyle. When the cowardly Oakes discovers that his function is to 'liquidate' security risks to the State, he hires a freelance professional assassin (Eric Sykes) to do the dirty work and maintain his position.
Things go well until Oakes seduces Mostyn's secretary Iris into coming with him to the Côte d'Azur. There he is captured by enemy agents led by Akim Tamiroff and becomes a dupe in an assassination of the Duke of Edinburgh when he visits an R.A.F. base.
The film also features David Tomlinson, Gabriella Licudi, David Langton, Suzy Kendall and Alexandra Bastedo. Composer Lalo Schifrin's score includes a driving main title vocal theme and a soft end title theme ("My Liquidator") both sung by Shirley Bassey with animated titles by the Richard Williams studio. Other than the Goldfinger-type title song, Lalo Schifrin deliberately avoided the John Barry James Bond style of music.
LYRICS:
The Liquidator Will soon be coming around
You won't feel safer
Until you get out of town
He's an eraser
He'll rub you out like a light
And for a chaser
He'll kiss your woman good-night
He's a jackal and a Romeo,
you know
The devil in disguise
There's no telling where a girl would go,
you know
To gaze into his eyes
With the snapping of the fingertips of him
He'll take your life away
And a whisper from the smiling lips of him
Will take your wife away
The Liquidator
Will soon be getting to you
You'll wake up later
Somewhere up in the blue
The undertaker
Would never try to deny
That the Liquidator
Is a hell of a guy
The Liquidator!
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