This song is the music that they played at the end of the TV show ‘The Protectors’ which starred Peter Vaughan, Nyree Dawn Porter and Tony Anholt and was one of the shows I used to watch when I was a kid! I must confess that as well as wanting to be Doctor Who, Steed, Jason King and Batman (okay Batman was also sophisticated super capitalist Bruce Wayne in his spare time) I also wanted to be Harry Rule.
As we lived in Leicester, which was in the ATV region we were lucky enough to get a good stream of repeats of Lew Grade’s shows such as ‘The Protectors’ and ‘Captain Scarlet’ etc which were usually on around lunchtime on a Sunday. I really liked ‘The Protectors’ and I really liked this song and even though it is a little dated now Tony Christie has an extremely dramatic and precise voice that could make his alphabetical singing of the names in a telephone directory sound amazing.
When buying this on itunes I discovered a rather exciting new video that Tony had made which is very much in keeping with the original track and although all this song does is remind me I want to be a velvet wearing 70s special agent involved in international espionage it remains a masterpiece….and so much better than ‘Show Me The Way to Amarillo’ for which Tone is now known by a younger generation.
Now listen to the song (and watch the video….)
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