JOHNNY RIVERS - Secret Agent Man 1966 

I thought it said secret aging man

I always felt like 007 when I heard this when I was little

Same bru

LOL

Lol

He put out good tunes, specially (Come a little bit closer (

Still great, I was 9-years old. This is when they started, pushing to bring in the sound of the audiences as a plus sound.

ES 350!

Say it loud

Raymond, I do I was born 1957 and I'm 66 going on 67 and I remember my sister's dancing to it in our living room.

I'm also 66 go on 67. Born August 12 1957 in lake county Illinois. I still love that old song.😊

Me too! 😊

60yo here, born in 1963, grew up listening to Johnny Rivers thanks to older brothers and sisters that had great taste in music 🙂

I still have that album.

" Fantastic, Keep going young boy!!! 😊

Praise God!

Thank him for his service and sacrifice!

Great outcome lousy war

Tell your brother I said thank you for serving our country, and, I am thrilled he made it back damn it!!!!!!!!!😅😅😊😢🎉😂❤

Vincent Fisher The Don Adams show was "Get Smart" you left out Roger Moore as "The Saint" before he took over as James Bond.

Vincent Fisher Whait u wot brother of Sam Fisher From Splinter cell? hes a secret agent to >_>

Vincent Fisher I grew up in 80's and yes, very cool song.

Vincent Fisher Yes And BEATLES HELP

Same here

🥱

I was 6 back then and always sang the wrong words. lol

...to this day I swear that's what he's saying.

@@josephk362 Right?! Even now knowing the correct words, it still sounds like Asian man! Lol...glad I’m not the only one!😆

​@@sparkyspark964 If you wanna get nostalgic, a band called Davinci's Notebook made a parody called Secret Asian Man.

@@dayminder7414 Lol! I just listened to it and I’m going to forward it to my brother! Thanks for the recommendation! 😆💙❤️

How do these guys write them?

@@gboard7 With pens and pencils mostly because nobody had computers back then.

@@mrradio2187 true

@@gboard7 With sheer coolness. ha ha

I love his intro he's a very good guitar player James Burton and he worked together for a little while and he can he can riff

Definitely did not know.. with a solo like in this song I must hear more

i like poor side of town it was part of my heartbreak

They don't like him, because he did EVERYTHING his way, AND if a cover, he always gave the big hit his JR aignature aound, IMPECCABLE. Christian XXX strikes , no partying XXX, Dion- almost the same story.,

I knew about Johnny's hits. I still have my 45s. Every song Johnny Rivers recorded...he owned ! My favorite has always been Poor Side Of Town but I love them all ! If anyone deserves to be in the Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame, it's Johnny Rivers ! You're right, that's talent !!!

Im front Brazil i love Jhony Rivers ❤️

Amen. Johnny Rivers is no lightweight. In 2017, he was STILL rocking out. I saw him that year and what a lovely surprise. He is seriously talented. He can write, sing and play very well. Plus, he has done it for a long time. Yes, he clearly belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!

They’re not?

@@austinmorrison6953 lol

Facts.

No doubt about it. Put him in.

And great guitarist.

@@joanmjames2495 Hello Joan, your right Johnny Rivers was a fantastic guitarist! Never met a guitar he never played!

Doeds that make him better than he is. R & R Hole of Fame is just one more sang on an indsutry so they can get in the back door where is that doc on how it came about-- like ASCAP & BMI. who own a peoce of everything like Spotify. Anybody can have a Hall of Something. Start one of your own and make Johnny Come in Lately.

Absolutely!

Agreed ....its amazing..!!

Especially the Ventures version.

TRIPLE AMEN!

Killer guitar riff is true.

Calm down

No he was not sorry ... underrated because he was only mediocre

@@lemkowitz1 pretty sure this is one of the most recognizable rifts in the world. Try again hater.

Alexander Hernandez Just because it’s recognisable doesn’t make it any good

Johnny Rivers did'nt play this.It was P.F.Sloan who wrote and produced this song. He wrote it for a T.V. show

@@robertpricedeldin he didn't play this? Do you mean he didn't WRITE it because he's definitely playing it. P.F wrote it and sang it first, which sometimes makes a song better but just as often it doesn't and is irrelevant to my comment anyways. But it was Johnny Rivers version that was used in the T.V show "Danger Man" between 1964-1966. Hence making it one of the most recognizable rifts in the world.

It was Danger Man xor Secret Agent, depending on whether it was in Britain’s ITV or in America.

It was Patrick McGoohan and Diana Rigg in the Avengers - I think it was British... Great show!😊

@@almcclung2783 Patrick MacNee in "The Avengers"

It was called "Danger Man" here in the UK. And we didnt have this wonderful theme tune.

It was Danger Man in Canada as well. I also liked the Danger Man theme!

I like most music my dad plays

Secret asian man

🍵✌️

I was the kid when this came out, I'm the dad now! My kids like it!

Secret ageging man

I CAME HERE TOO!

@Makel Huddleston That exact same one from 5 years ago.

Same

@@erirly7459 that’s exactly the one

@Makel Huddleston no, the video was called "these two different songs have the same bpm."

Respect

wtf is a drag boat?

What a sweet and lovely comment!!!

Ex frikin zactly I was aboutta say

Austin

We're getting old. Lol

Ye fuckers forgetting Austin Powers

Everyone would like to forget Ace Ventura.

You should have done Emerson Lake and Palmer.

@@aveuch we went from tricycle to fucking airplane. Calm down boy

Ya Think :-D

True

Well said

I didn't know this was attached to a tv show.

Thank you. :)

@@xmo552 While never officially confirmed, the character in Danger Man/Secret Agent was said to be the same man who was held in the Village in 'The Prisoner' series, also starring Patrick McGoohan.

Crackle actually airs two seasons of danger man

@@shoresean1237 Number 6 couldn't legally be John Drake, because then they'd have to get permission to use the character. That's the Doylist reason, at least.

I think there's a problem with calling someone underrated and also saying they have uncountable top hits in the same breath

@@TorvicIsSanta my comment was a compliment to his music and yet he is very underrated, just because someone has top hits, doesn't mean anyone acknowledges them to the level they should be!

@@wrathoftheragingdemon8084 RU-vid has all his greatest hits on it.

@Angela pooh...I agree because every song Johnny Rivers ever recorded..he owned ! Johnny Rivers should have been put in the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame yrs ago.. So many in there that don't belong there. I say put Johnny Rivers in there ..like yesterday !

I read Bob Dylan's autobiography and he thought Johnny Rivers was great.

And, that has to do with this, how?

@@mattjahnke239 you let the wrong word slip while kissing persuasive lips

Yep

Spork Nipples I'M CRYING

lol

It sounds like he saying "asian man"

when its 1am and your mom is sleeping but you still want food.

Voz. LINDA

I agree!!!

YEAH!!! :D

Didn't Johnny Rivers open up songs for movie themes. I may be wrong in this thought.

​@@bettyh3747 probably. I was only 8 but secret agent movies was big at that time. CIA was only about 10 years old and Sean Connery was the coolest guy around.

He's a great guitar player.

Not Asian numb skull

So the secret agents, are now secret Asians? 😂

Was it s sneaky Sasquatch

TheFatBoss 7 🆈🅴🆂

Ok

Same

Apple Arcade

Greg Ring sorry for your loss

Greg Ring dude I’m really sorry

[insert crying for you here]

@@mr.marbles2325 He had good taste

Keep on Rock'n with the Secret Agent Man.

For that Bigfoot game ad? Same reason I came here. So glad I did.

Yea sneaky Sasquatch brought me here

Apple did something right for once

This song is a bop and I’m not afraid to admit that that’s what led me here

3amr yeah, something GOOD apple did

He's too good, too talented to be down at their level...

Wait…what? He’s not?!? That is some serious bullshit.

Didn’t realize that was him on guitar….NICE

Because they don’t have good taste in music.

@@Mocha-Koffee01 faxxxxxxx

I would love the song, if only it weren't for all those stupid assholes making noises in the background. He's trying to record a song! Shut up!

I think some people think it’s “CrInGy” to listen to old music

...''CAUSE THEY STUPID TEENAGERS JUMPING AROUND LIKE GRASSHOPPERS AND STILL CAN''T DANCE ...WHAT A WASTE

fuck yeah lol

John Drake (Patrick McGoohan) sends his congratulations.

Oh yeah! Johnny Rivers' best song. Listening to it 5/9/24. Still an adrenaline rush!

My go to Karaoke song….love it

@@johnhoefert5185 I personally prefer 'John Lee Hooker' or 'Suzie Q'

Holy mother of shurikens dude, ya cracked the code

@@lifeontheledgerlines8394 :)

WTF wigga you're here too?

Lol

Lol

Anyone who doesnt think he is cool is likely uncool themselves this is gold.

Me, too.

Never heard anyone think say differently, but I know what your saying!~ also wasn't he a excellent guitar payer

Also excellent on the mandolin.

Yes Johnny was and is a great guitarist.

"Secret ageing man"

Something something just nostalgia, bla bla, conditioned dismissiveness etc...accept your new global corporate billionaire overlords and their endlessly regurgitated mindrotting gumpf "content". Anything that used to be better wasn't, just forget about it and pretend everything now is just as good when it clearly isn't...I mean is! EVERYTHING'S FINE I'M NOT LISTENING LALALALA!

@@AD-kv9kj How do I block or put on ignore or something like that?

@@cafe6010 1) the past sucked. it just feels good because you can't screw it up; 2) grow a pair and lead, follow or git out of the way. the future is coming.

You miss last century… like, the century that held two world wars? Okay.

@@cafe6010 I think she/he was agreeing with you--just being sarcastic.

Has that lasting presence, like The James Bond Theme does!

We used to sarcastically sing "Secret Agent Man" in the face of guys that were getting a bit full of themselves. Johnny Rivers deserves to be in the Rock& Roll Hall of Fame.

I'm the exact opposite, as the term "Asian" rarely came up in my youth, I figured it had to be "agent". Now I can only hear "Asian" as an adult.

You're not the only one, it's one of the most misheard song lyrics. O_o

Look at his mouth, there is not one sign of “agent” enunciated. “Asian“ is clearly being said.

Yep when I was a kid. I thought this secret Asian guy must be so cool.

LOL ME TOO 🤣

I'm not from that time, but I sure love the music of it!

Was Rivers a one hit wonder? I’ve never heard of him but the song is great.

kataisa3 he’s not as famous as Elvis but he has numerous songs

Carnaby Street, the british invasion, 007, the mini Cooper, the jaguar type e, the 1966 world cup. It's called swinging London. It was when London finally came out of the ruins of world war 2 and became the world's it city of the 1960s. London repeated this in the 1990s with "Cool Britannia"

Sominboy27 remember, two if by sea

Bydd overleven caawimo hel su planuota yɛlɛma alaabtayda xaji ksatria dari gereja ku rhurhela endhawini yin’wana loj hlob zaub mov inkarnato ti babam yanımıza taşınıyor starte i skole for handicappede indawo ephephe kakhulu ivuliwe planeet maa.

No decade after the 60s has ever replicated that raw energy... the 80s came close in a different kind of way, the 90s a distant third, again in their own peculiar way, but the 60s are UNIQUE AND TIMELESS.

I know, right? 😎 way cool!

@@LeahTillock - It manages to sound "fresh" after fifty years even if it now seems rather quaint.

It isn't bad, nowadays if audio isn't perfect and the video quality 4K people already see it as trash

@@x-raystudios6826 ......The exact way a millennial thinks.

Unas ganas de tener un abuelo como usted y que me cuente cosas de antes , lamentablemente mis abuelos fallecieron a mí corta edad y no pude disfrutar de ellos , pero si que ellos disfrutaron de mí , abrazos fraterno desde Argentina

Turn it up that single dash speaker

Lol, your fathers dead.

A beautiful memory

Interesting

+Edmund Vitale . . and his solo was burning hot!!

of course he Italian man!!!

yes

Hot diggity!

@Undoctrinated - he was HUGE back in the day, pre-classic rock 60s, right as music was changing

@Undoctrinated AND HE CRIED ABOUT IT ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK

This sounds like a lip synched production, so he probably mimed the guitar. It doesn't mean he didn't play the guitar on the studio version. He did, and is a good guitarist.

MrGoldenthroat I agree with you.

Agreed. This song is classic and timeless. But I'm betting he didn't kiss satan's ass or suck ziodikk. 😕

OMG He's not??!!

You mean the Hall of Shame because that's what it has become.

@Brian Allen the hall is now a joke.

jacktrades24, absolutely on everything u said. 👍

amazing that he's not in the HOF -- thanks for sharing that

NO SHIT ! + about 10 other ALL~TIME classic's THE MAN did !!

You called it jacktrades24 ...one of the great pop performers of all time..period.ERUPTED WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARNING ON NIGHTIME AIR WAVES after hundreds of GRUELING whisky go go disco Los Angeles multiple shows...Saw him live one time only at simple hotel concert for visiting guest South Carolina football team in Baton Rouge , Louisiana..circa 1966...no messing around .with simple trio in hotel dining room ...one monster hit after another..and then gone . Unforgettable one half century later . Rivers was fantastic at getting teamwork..the entire Phil Spector "WRECKING CREW"/SYMPHONIC MUSIC CREW AND CLUB OWNERS TO BACK HIM..a wizard at covering monster hits plus his own.. could do music business off the chart ..must be heard for two hours on youtube reel WITH GREAT SOUND SYSTEM EAR PHONES to be believed.. .Vietnam veterans virtually lived and died with his music .EPIC.Jude Acers New Orleans

LOL

Watch Putin!

Yes

Bydd overleven caawimo hel su planuota yɛlɛma alaabtayda xaji ksatria dari gereja ku rhurhela endhawini yin’wana loj hlob zaub mov inkarnato ti babam yanımıza taşınıyor starte i skole for handicappede indawo ephephe kakhulu ivuliwe planeet maa.

Not if he’s face-down dead in a Bombay alley.

I love Johnny Rivers, but this solo was played by Junior Brown. Check him out. Dubbed. Great music!

@@karlfisher1864 I like Junior Brown's version too, but it sounds completely different from this (at least in the Junior Brown Surf Medley video). Why do you think this version has Jr. B's solo dubbed over Johnny's original?

Is a genius!!!!!beatyfull !!!!!

The studio guitarist who played the intro and solo is named Jim Mesi. I don't know if it's the greatest solo of all time, but it's a candidate.

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Bydd overleven caawimo hel su planuota yɛlɛma alaabtayda xaji ksatria dari gereja ku rhurhela endhawini yin’wana loj hlob zaub mov inkarnato ti babam yanımıza taşınıyor starte i skole for handicappede indawo ephephe kakhulu ivuliwe planeet maa.

Essa música era trilha sonora de uma novela só não me lembro qual

Secret Asian man

LOL, when I came home one night after riding around and smoking pot in 78 my parents where in the kicthen because my stepfather's parents just got there for a visit....paranoia was creeping up and I just went straight down to the cellar and then back up to my room with just a hello...LOL

Black Jack were*

2020 cap

Love this comment! 😂

🤣 I can just about picture it. Would make for a great comedy bit.

AMEN!

i liked that old series as well. always liked the song after that. it was "mcgoohan." great song.

He should be happy with it. So awesome.

K31R616 Got to admit that it has a catchy beat still listening in 2019.