When the British spy series, Danger Man, was revived in 1965 as an hour-long drama instead of a half-hour, the series was imported to the US by CBS, which retitled the show, Secret Agent, and commissioned a new theme song to go along with the title change. CBS had aired the original Danger Man intact a few years earlier, but for some reason felt it necessary to differentiate the two incarnations.
Johnny Rivers recorded "Secret Agent Man", which cracked the top 10 on the pop charts in 1966. The following clip was last seen on AMC's now-defunct American Pop Saturday night block a few years back, but the true origins of the video are unknown. Bluebboy uploaded the clip, and the momentary pause near the end was just a hazard in the process of transferring the clip online.
Sooner or later, we'll get around to covering Danger Man/Secret Agent......
2 comments:
I dodon't see much of the seris, but the song everyone knows. Like The Hawaii 5-0 theme - it never gets old!
Amen to that.
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