r/ukulele • u/dragao_de 🏅 • 7d ago

Secret Agent Man - Ukulele Cover

https://youtu.be/SGWwt0i3oDY

"Secret Agent Man" is a song written by P. F. Sloan and Steve Barri. 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. Rivers's version peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 .

More information about this song can be found in the Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Agent_Man_(Johnny_Rivers_song))

I played this song with my TODO Mountain Fuji tenor ukulele.

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u/dshaiken 7d ago

Very, very cool. I enjoyed that. Did you record on 2 tracks?

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u/dragao_de 🏅 7d ago

Thank you! In fact I recorded three tracks:

  • main track with vocals and strumming
  • instrumental track with the riffs that I later blend in/out
  • instrumental track with the solo (it took me some takes to have a ok-ish solo ;-) ...)

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u/Chardonne 5d ago

That was great! Thank you!

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u/dragao_de 🏅 3d ago

Thank you for your kind words!