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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0793018215121
Format: Soundtrack
Label: Razor & Tie
Manufacturer: Razor & Tie
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Razor & Tie
Release Date: August 19, 1997
Sales Rank: 117400
Studio: Razor & Tie
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This is a splendid musical collection, with my only complaints being the total run time (almost 33 minutes), and the version of Secret Agent Man here. Not Johnny Rivers, and this version (in my mind) is more reminicent of Bond, which Drake certainly is not.
Upsides: Drake and Ducks is a nice humorous piece, conjuring up amusing mental images of Drake avidly persuing a flock of ducks. The harpsichord's apperance was apparently Drake's theme instrument, and personally being a fan of ... Read More
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Edwin Astley was not the writer of the song made by Johnny Rivers even though he recorded a version of it.However Edwin's music can be heard on various Library discs available more or less privately.
Since his death Edwin has seemed to establish a record of being possibly the only name artiste who has been virtually ignored.
In spite of the TV documentary ASTLEYS WAY and my own book EDWIN ASTLEY TRIBUTE the music media has ignored his passing.
A disgusting state of affairs which should ... Read More
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Although I share the above reader's love of this genre of music, I thought it should be pointed out that the present album (Secret
Agent: Music From the TV Series) does not feature the so-called "duelling guitar"sound so well remembered in the Johnny Rivers
recording of the U.S. theme song for the British-made TV series,
but instead an equally brilliant but stylistically different big-band-style arrangement with a different (though excellent)
male vocalist. Astley should be credited ... Read More
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Secret Agent Man by Edwin Astley And His Orchestra, brings back memories of the dueling electic guitars of the 60's, spies, embassies, intrigue, also seen in the 1997 TV Razor & Tie, this is the song that everyone knew, everyone sang the verse, and everyone tried to do the "dooo, di, doo, di doo di doo"ing of the dueling guitars, this is the song that made every secret agent thereafter, like James Bond, and the rest all take a number to this cold war, epic, black and white tv show of the same name, ... Read More
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