"The Name's White. Jack White."

The new James Bond theme has made it's way online, about 2 months before the latest film "Quantum of Solace" hits theaters. This tune is a first, as it is the first ever duet used in a Bond film, pretty hard to believe in nearly 50 years of being on the silver screen. White Stripes/Raconteurs front man and music producer extraordinaire Jack White, wrote and produced the tune, which he performs with Alicia Keys.

The song has a very vintage, Paul McCartney "Live and Let Die" feel to it. I like to think that Jack White, had he been a Beatle, would never have let himself get outbid by Michael Jackson for publishing rights to the fab four's music, thus preventing the use of anthemic masterpieces like "Revolution" from being used in a sneaker commercial in the 1980's. Anyway, that's neither here nor there.

White's self started record label, Third Man Records, is streaming the song for free on their website. I'm not sure how long it will be up there, since the single is being released this coming Tuesday, September 23rd, digitally, on CD, and in the form of a limited edition 7" record. If this film is a sign of what's to come with the film, I'm very excited. The last theme song from "Casino Royale," by Chris Cornell was another great one, much better than the ones of the past decade or so that had been lacking in the Pierce Brosnan Bond films. If great collaborations like this are still to come as long as Daniel Craig is playing the martini drinking British ladies man super agent, then he should keep the role until he's 60.

Originally, Amy Whine(Crack)house was supposed to do it, with Mark Ronson producing, but she likely took the advance they gave her and bought meth with it. Amy came back to the studio Monday morning and said, “Crikey! I got the most extraordinary song of all the Bond films!” She proceeded to sing her rendition of Shirley Bassey’s “Goldfinger,” and the producers told her that it was a 40 year old Bond song (see clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSc1n8ByDiE , still the greatest Bond song of all time). She then said, “Oh bloody hell! That’s bollocks!!! That old curmudgeon stole the bloody song from me!” She ran out of the studio, not before taking someone’s wallet, and for obvious reasons, lost the gig.

By the looks of it, she can play some sort of ghoul-zombie in the next "Harry Potter" movie.

Here's the link to the website you can stream the song at:

http://www.thirdmanrecords.com/