John Barry, arranger of Monty Norman's "James Bond Theme" for Dr. No, would be the dominant Bond series composer for most of its history and the inspiration for fellow series composer, David Arnold (who uses cues from this soundtrack in his own for Tomorrow Never Dies).

Following the decision of the producers not to use Monty Norman, though keeping his "James Bond Theme", Harry Saltzman decided on using the then popular Lionel Bart of Oliver!

In Germany, the original release featured an end title track cover version called Die Wolga ist Weit sung by Ruthe Berlé.

[The Trip] was supposedly to seep up the music, so Noel Rogers and I used to go 'round to these nightclubs and listen to all this stuff.

Barry also released different cover versions of the title song and "007" on his Ember records for the pop charts.

The Roland Shaw Orchestra performed cover versions of most of the music of Barry's soundtrack on several albums.