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"Secret Agent Man" is a song written by P. F. Sloan and Steve Barri. [4] The most famous recording of the song was made by Johnny Rivers for the opening titles of the American broadcast of the British spy series Danger Man , which aired in the U.S. as Secret Agent from 1964 to 1966. [ 4 ]
"Secret Agent Man" (Johnny Rivers song), a song written by Steve Barri and P. F. Sloan used as the opening theme for American broadcast of the TV series Danger Man "Secret Agent Man" (The Superjesus song), 2001; Danger Man, a British TV series broadcast as Secret Agent in the U.S. from 1964 to 1966, sometimes erroneously referred to as Secret ...
He wrote music for many British television series of the 1950s and 1960s, including incidental music for The Champions, and the opening titles to The Adventures of Robin Hood (with the exception for the closing titles), Danger Man [4] (known as Secret Agent in North America, where a new graphic opening credit sequence was added which featured ...
Danger Man (retitled Secret Agent in the United States for the revived series, and Destination Danger and John Drake in other overseas markets) is a British television series that was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again between 1964 and 1968. The series featured Patrick McGoohan as secret agent John Drake.
At first Rivers balked at the idea but eventually changed his mind. The American version of the show, titled Secret Agent, went on the air in the spring of 1965. The theme song was very popular and created public demand for a longer single version. Rivers's recording of "Secret Agent Man" reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1966. [15]
Philip Gary "Flip" Sloan (né Schlein; September 18, 1945 – November 15, 2015), [1] known professionally as P. F. Sloan, was an American singer and songwriter.During the mid-1960s, he wrote, performed, and produced many Billboard Top 20 hits for artists such as Barry McGuire, the Searchers, Jan and Dean, Herman's Hermits, Johnny Rivers, the Grass Roots, the Turtles, and the Mamas and the Papas.
The series used an updated version of the 1960s hit, “Secret Agent Man”, performed by Supreme Beings of Leisure, for its theme song.Because the Johnny Rivers version of this song was used as the theme song for American broadcasts of another television series, the 1960s British TV series, Danger Man (primarily broadcast in the U.S. as Secret Agent), there were some mistaken impressions that ...
He began his career in England during the 1950s and became well known for the titular role of secret agent John Drake in the ITC espionage programme Danger Man (1960–1968). He then created, produced, and starred as former British intelligence agent Number Six in the surrealistic ITV series The Prisoner (1967–1968).