While watching the Jackie Chan move Drunken Master the other evening I noted a very brief snatch of music (just five notes) which I instantly recognised from The Spy Who Loved Me - specifically the Son Et Lumiere sequence at the Pyramids. As it's not on the TSWLM album I'm wondering where Drunken Master got it: was it a piece of library music that just got tracked into both films? And what's it called?
I saw the actual show, live in Cairo, in 1991. A memorable spectacle. You can find it online; I'm not sure the music has changed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1t9X43Nm30
Having given the matter more thought than it's frankly worth, I've given the dreaded TSWLM album another go (at least, the relevant track) and found that yes, that brief synth burst of five notes IS on there after all (at about 37 seconds).
Incidentally, I did go to the Son Et Lumiere at the Pyramids back in 1985 but for whatever reason I have no memory of the music played!
Music from Bond scores was used in a bunch of Hong Kong films of the 70s and 80s. Studios "borrowed" prolifically from Western film music. The cue may have been taken from the foreign dubbing tracks. I watched a few of the Shaw films on Prime and was surprised to spot Morricone's music in several of the films, with credit given to another composer and none to Morricone. It was all needle dropped from other films or production libraries. I am not certain if the composer credited in this example was even a real person.
