John Barry (composer)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Barry_(composer)

Accolades

Grammy Award

• 1969 Best Instrumental Theme for Midnight Cowboy^[46]
• 1985 Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band for The Cotton Club^[46]
• 1985 Best Instrumental Composition for Out of Africa^[46]
• 1991 Best Instrumental Composition for Dances with Wolves^[46]

Emmy Award nominations

• 1964 Outstanding Achievement in Composing Original Music for Television for Elizabeth Taylor in London (a 1963 television special)^[47]
• 1977 Outstanding Achievement in Music Composition for a Special (Dramatic Underscore) for Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years^[47]

Golden Raspberry Award

• 1981 Worst Musical Score for The Legend of the Lone Ranger

Max Steiner Lifetime Achievement Award (presented by the City of Vienna)

• 2009^[22]

Lifetime Achievement Award from World Soundtrack Academy (presented at the Ghent Film Festival)

• 2010

In 2011, he received the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music.

Barry was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1998.^[22]

Filmography

Bond films

Barry worked on the soundtracks for the following James Bond films (title song collaborators in brackets):

• Dr. No (1962) – James Bond Theme (composed by Monty Norman) as arranged by Barry used on main and end titles, and key points such as Bond's arrival in Jamaica
• From Russia with Love (lyrics by Lionel Bart) (1963)
• Goldfinger (lyrics by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse), (1964)
• Thunderball (lyrics by Don Black) (1965)
• You Only Live Twice (lyrics by Leslie Bricusse) (1967)
• On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
• Diamonds Are Forever (lyrics by Don Black) (1971)
• The Man with the Golden Gun (lyrics by Don Black) (1974)
• Moonraker (lyrics by Hal David) (1979)
• Octopussy (lyrics by Tim Rice) (1983)
• A View to a Kill (music and lyrics by Duran Duran) (1985)
• The Living Daylights (music and lyrics by Paul Waaktaar-Savoy) (1987)

In addition, a brief excerpt from the song "Born Free" is heard during a sequence in the non-EON Productions Bond film, Casino Royale (1967).

Other film scores

• Beat Girl (1960)
• Never Let Go (1960)
• The Cool Mikado (1962)
• The Amorous Prawn (1962)
• The L-Shaped Room (1962)
• Man in the Middle (1963)
• A Jolly Bad Fellow (1964)
• Séance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)
• Zulu (1964)
• Boy and Bicycle (1965)
• Mister Moses (1965) US
• Four in the Morning (1965)
• The Party's Over (1965)
• The Knack ...and How to Get It (1965)
• King Rat (1965) US
• The Ipcress File (1965)
• Born Free (1966)
• The Chase (1966) US
• The Wrong Box (1966)
• The Quiller Memorandum (1966)
• The Whisperers (1967)
• Dutchman (1967)
• Boom! (1968)
• Petulia (1968) US
• Deadfall (1968)
• The Lion in Winter (1968)
• The Appointment (1969) US
• Midnight Cowboy (1969) US
• Monte Walsh (1970) US
• The Last Valley (1970)
• They Might Be Giants (1971) US
• Murphy's War (1971)
• Walkabout (1971)
• Mary, Queen of Scots (1971)
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1972)
• Follow Me! (1972)
• A Doll's House (1973)
• The Tamarind Seed (1974)
• The Dove (1974) US
• The Day of the Locust (1975) US
• King Kong (1976) US Italy
• Robin and Marian (1976) US
• The Deep (1977)
• First Love (1977) US
• The White Buffalo (1977) US
• Game of Death (1978)
• The Betsy (1978)
• Starcrash (1978) US
• Hanover Street (1979)
• The Black Hole (1979) US
• Somewhere in Time (1980) US
• Touched by Love (1980) US Canada
• Inside Moves (1980) US
• Night Games (1980) US
• Raise the Titanic (1980)
• The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981) US
• Body Heat (1981) US
• Frances (1982) US
• Murder by Phone (1982)
• Hammett (1982) US
• The Golden Seal (1983)
• High Road to China (1983)
• The Cotton Club (1984) US
• Until September (1984) US
• Mike's Murder (1984) US
• Jagged Edge (1985) US
• Out of Africa (1985) US
• Howard the Duck (1986) US
• A Killing Affair (1986) US
• Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) US
• The Golden Child (1986) (only partially used in final cut) US
• Hearts of Fire (1987) US
• Masquerade (1988) US
• Dances with Wolves (1990) US
• Chaplin (1992)
• Year of the Comet (1992) (rejected score^{[citation needed]})
• Ruby Cairo (1992) US
• My Life (1993) US
• Indecent Proposal (1993) US
• The Specialist (1994) US
• Cry, the Beloved Country (1995)
• Across the Sea of Time (1995) US
• The Scarlet Letter (1995) US
• Swept from the Sea (1997) US
• Mercury Rising (1998) US
• Playing by Heart (1998) US
• Goodbye Lover (1998) (rejected score^{[citation needed]})
• Enigma (2001)
• The Incredibles (2004) (rejected score^{[citation needed]})

Television film scores

• Elizabeth Taylor in London (Grammy award nomination) (1963)
• Sophia Loren in Rome (1964)
• The Glass Menagerie (1973)
• Love Among the Ruins (1975)
• Eleanor and Franklin (1976)
• Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years (1977)
• The War Between the Tates (1977)
• Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy (1977)
• The Gathering (1977)
• The Corn is Green (1979)
• Willa (1979)
• Svengali (1983)

Television themes

• Juke Box Jury (1959–1967)
• Dateline (1962)
• Impromptu (1964)
• The Newcomers (1965–1969)
• Vendetta (1966)
• The Persuaders! (1971–1972)
• The Adventurer (1972–1973)
• Orson Welles Great Mysteries (1973)
• Born Free (1974)
• USA Today: The Television Show (1988)

Musicals

• Passion Flower Hotel (1965)
• Lolita, My Love (1971), a musical comedy (text by Alan Jay Lerner) based on Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita
• Billy (1974)
• The Little Prince and the Aviator (1981)
• Brighton Rock (2004)

Other works

• Stringbeat (1961)
• Americans (1975)
• The Beyondness of Things (1999)
• Eternal Echoes (2001)
• The Seasons (no release date set)

Singles

(Excludes co-composed hits, e.g. Duran Duran's A View to a Kill)

• "Hit and Miss" as The John Barry Seven plus Four, UK#10 (first charted 1960)
• "Beat for Beatniks" as The John Barry Orchestra, UK#40 (1960)
• "Never Let Go" as The John Barry Orchestra, UK#49 (1960)
• "Blueberry Hill" as The John Barry Orchestra, UK#34 (1960)
• "Walk Don't Run" as The John Barry Seven, UK#11 (1960)
• "Black Stockings" as The John Barry Seven, UK#27 (1960)
• "The Magnificent Seven" as The John Barry Seven, UK#45 (1961)
• "Cutty Sark" as The John Barry Seven, UK#35 (1962)
• "The James Bond Theme" as The John Barry Orchestra, UK#13 (1962)
• "From Russia with Love" as The John Barry Orchestra, UK#39 (1963)
• "Theme from 'The Persuaders'" as John Barry, UK#13 (1971)

His four highest-charting hits all spent more than 10 weeks in the UK top 50.

Out of all that music, this is my personal favorite. You can often recognize his stuff  from the powerful french horns. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sIgzoGnJn4