“We Have All The Time In The World” — Louis Armstrong
We have all the time in the world…except we don’t.
And neither did Louis Armstrong when he stepped into the studio back in 1969 to record a song for the James Bond film “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service”.
With no little irony, Louis Armstrong’s recording session for “We Have All The Time In The World” would turn out to be his last.
And at the time it hardly made a ripple in the world of music. It took another 30 years for “All The Time In The World” to get the recognition it deserved after being picked for a very successful Guinness commercial in the mid-1990s
Sometimes described as a “Bond theme”, “All The Time In The World” is nothing of the sort.
Although the music was written by Bond composer extraordinaire, John Barry…and with lyrics by Hal David, a man who knew how to pen some fine words to a song…it is used mainly as an short-lived atmospheric piece during the film itself.
It doesn’t really get a full workout until right at the end when James Bond is cradling his new wife in his arms after she’s been assassinated by the bad people at Spectre.
“On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” is an unusual Bond film on many levels.
