9 Things You Didn’t Know About Your Favorite James Bond Songs

The song for 1965’s Thunderball could have been this gunslinger ballad by none other than Johnny Cash — but the producers didn’t want it. It joins a whole bunch of songs written on spec that producers never seriously considered: somehow, when a band (or a singer) does a song and then sends it in, producers run the other way, all too often to the series’ detriment. Blondie wanted to do "For Your Eyes Only," and Alice Cooper did a really cool "Man With the Golden Gun." But Johnny Cash’s contribution to the what-ifs of the Bond canon might be the most tantalizing. "He’s known by very few, but feared by all in crime." If Quentin Tarantino ever did his version of Bond, this would need to be his theme song.