Shirley Bassey - My Liquidator - End Title Theme (1965 Soundtrack Recording)

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1965 (End Title to the Movie, The Liquidator)

Shirley included this song, along with 'The Liquidator' as the theme songs on the Soundtrack of the movie, 'The Liquidator' in 1968. My Liquidator was the 'End Title' song.

LYRICS:
My Liquidator
No one can do what you do
Sooner or later
I knew I'd fall in love with you

Your touch can fill me
With such burning desire
Take me and thrill me
With your kisses of fire

I knew you can be a wild and raging sea
Or gentle as a lamb
You can be just any way you want with me
And I will understand

Though people tell me
Your love can never be real
They can't compel me
To ignore what I feel

No love is greater
No love was ever more true

My liquidator
And my love for you
My Liquidator!

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.