Kiddie a Go-Go #5 : Secret Agent Kiki

Bonjour!

It’s funny because since I started the Kiddie a Go-Go themed posts, this blog has been painfully unpopular, har har!

Well then…MOVING RIGHT ALONG…*is this thing on?*

Maybe this will shake things up: Kiki!

Kiki was a Belgian boy signed to Palette Records, the top Belgian label of the time.

Real name: Kiki Isaye, later to become the drummer for Belgian band Blue Rock. Photo here (please note: this info is taken from a thing called the interweb…MIGHT NOT BE ACTUAL FACT! What do you think?)

Kiki released a bunch of 45 singles, including one I’d love to get my dirty mittens on called “Vive les chansons yéyé”.

Here he is singing a fantastic song called “L’Agent secret”, in which Kiki tells us that what he reallys wants to be isn’t a yéyé singing star but a Secret Agent man! He would be so good at it that even James Bond would want him dead, he sings. This one is very much in the style of Nancy Sinatra’s “Last of the Secret Agents”.

And finally, another nice poppy yéyé track called “L’Affreux Jojo”, which has nothing to do with the Michel Polnareff song of the same name.

Bon baisers de Kiki!

Kiki-L’Agent secret
Kiki-L’Affreux Jojo