2:42
single, 1965
Written by Eddie Constantine?
I never heard of this guy, but he's American! Could have fooled me. He sounds just like a Parisian yé-yé rock singer to my thick ears. Apparently he fled the US during the McCarthy era, so I guess by 1965 he'd had a lot of practice getting fluent. This song is inspired by the character Lemmy Caution, a private eye who first appeared in a 1936 novel. Although the creator is English and Caution is American, there was never an English-language movie made about him, but plenty of French ones, which starred Constantine. They were noir, but later tended toward comedy and even science fiction (like Dick Tracy!). In this song, a breathless female voice keeps trying to get Caution's attention, but he's busy tossing hard-boiled threats at some guy named Tony. It's played tongue-in-cheek.
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