Kinky Boots

• [Craig L Wittler]

  Apparently that was a promotional tie-in to the British TV show “The Avengers” from the days before Diana Rigg replaced (future Bond Girl) Honor Blackman and before it was exported to the U.S.ofA.

  It does back up my contention that Patrick MacNee belongs in the same class with William Shatner and Leslie Nielsen.

• [dr]

  I don’t understand the video.  Surely this song was recorded when Blackmun was still on The Avengers as some kind of promo, wasn’t there Avengers footage accompanying the original release?

• [SeeChao]

  Uh… the “sexy little school girl” is rather on the young side to be referred to as a sexy little school girl, no? o_O

  • [Gustavo Hexsel]

    That’s exactly what I was thinking!  Shows a 10 yo and says “those sexy little school girls”… wayy over the top! Is this a tie-in for the 60′s show or the upcoming movie?

  • [Conor Fitzpatrick]

    Actually the age of consent in the UK is 16, so in the context of this song being recorded in Britain it is totally legal to get fired into 5th to 6th years. This only got to prove that British policy makers are a bunch of wee dirties…

• [Craig L Wittler]

  The video was added long after the original song… there are other versions on YouTube.

  Here’s a ‘flashback’ clip from a ’90s episode of Top of the Pops http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=j0mTRiZGvvw

  And a YouTuber used all “Avengers” clips for this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFzdqlZGcw8

  Semi-related: these are the REAL Avengers (like the Real Ghostbusters) and those others should just be called Marvel All-Stars or Stan Lee’s Greatest Hits.

• [deejayqueue]

  I don’t see anything kinky or boots about this at all.

• [pjcamp]

  Kinky boots look a hell of a lot like pumps.

• [Stephen M]

  There is no excuse to put this song into my head again after all these years. It was played on the radio what seems like every 5 mins in the early 90′s when it was re-released into the charts in the lead up to Christmas I believe . I have memory scars of burly machine operators singing, hoisting up there trouser legs and flashing there steel toe caps at us fresh faced apprentices when it came on the radio *shudder*

• [jamiethehutt]

  I think it was done for charity rather than promotion, the joke is that the girls on the Avengers were always wearing kinky boots ;-)

• [purple-stater]

  Love this!  :-)  Stumbled across it about 15 years ago and still enjoy it.  Patrick MacNee is awesome.

• [13strong]

  I can’t hear this song without thinking of Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer’s amazing TV series “Catterick”, which used this song to introduce Matt Lucas’ creepy little hotel owner every time he appeared, like a kitsch Darth Vader.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyOvr_ZyaW8