[1] Barry created the melody of the song before drafting the lyrics with the help of Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse.

Guitarist Vic Flick, who played on the track, recalled at a 2012 Academy of Motion Pictures salute to the music of James Bond that Bassey was having difficulty getting a proper take.

[4] Notably, two of the session musicians were John Paul Jones and Jimmy Page, who together would be the founding members of Led Zeppelin.

The distinctive music for Goldfinger's henchman, Oddjob, makes use of repeated strokes on a metallic anvil.

Metallic chimes are also heard in many scenes associated with Oddjob or gold, notably that in which the dead golden girl is discovered.

1 on the Billboard 200[8] – the first James Bond soundtrack to do so, and spent 70 total weeks on the chart, but for reasons that remain unclear, received no RIAA certification.

It lacked four tracks ("Golden Girl", "Death of Tilley", "The Laser Beam", "Pussy Galore's Flying Circus") but contained the instrumental rock guitar version of the title theme song not found on the British LP.

[12] MacDonald wrote that the score was "big and ballsy, mainly jazz and orchestral fusion, with Shirley Bassey belting out the fantastic title song.