 The song was removed from the title credits after United Artists requested that the theme song contain the film's title in its lyrics.When it was planned to use the Warwick version in the end titles Shirley Bassey sued the producers with the result being that neither version was heard in the film and different instrumental versions of the theme appeared on the High Fidelity (Bassey's) and Stereo (Warwick's) soundtrack LPs.Barry teamed up with lyricist Don Black and wrote "Thunderball" in a rush.