Fifty-six years ago today, the greatest James Bond movie ever made, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, premiered. I have written about OHMSS extensively here and also here (as part of my Definitive Ranking Of All The Bond Films), so I won’t go into it in detail in this post…but it’s the one Bond film that takes place specifically at Christmastime, and it actually has its very own Christmas song, written for the film by composer John Barry and lyricist Hal David. The song, “Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown”, in heard briefly in the film when Bond is in a Swiss village trying to evade Blofeld’s minions. Is it a great song? Should it be a Christmas standard? Maybe not…but for me it is.
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