BRIDGET'S SPY SONG PLAYLIST

 PETULA CLARK- L'AGENT SECRET

Back in the prehistoric days of pop music, hits were up for grabs. Big labels and established artists furiously snatched up songs by artists without the benefit of national distribution(or, in many cases, white faces). The situation was even more chaotic across the globe with European singers routinely belting out their own versions of British and American hits.

Record companies realized they were leaving money on the table and, for a brief period in the 1960s, singers were required to put out versions of their hits rendered phonetically in French, German and Spanish specifically to prevent local acts profiting from cover versions.

This practice was not popular with artists who got into music specifically because they had no interest in studying French, German or Spanish at school. But it was a bit of a goldmine for bilingual singers like Sandie Shaw and, specifically Petula Clark. Clark, of Downtown fame, had a quintessentially English voice, but she embraced the French market with such enthusiasm and success that she ended up with a Gallic career completely separate from her British one.

This song isn't one of her classics, but it's the only thing she recorded that's interspersed with sound effects of gunfire, punches being thrown and the recipients of those punches groaning in pain.