What Kind Of Fool (partially found music video of Kakko song; 1990)
The single cover of What Kind of Fool.
Status: Partially Found
Kakko (Born Kakuko Yamagata) is a Japanese actress and singer born in 1969.[1] After being spotted by a talent scout from CBS Records at 17, she would begin a brief recording career.[2]
Her first single "We Should Be Dancing" was written and produced by hitmakers Stock Aitken Waterman (responsible for hits by Bananarama, Kylie Minogue and Rick Astley).[3] Due to their numerous successes in the past, this was predicted to be no different. Extensive promotional work was carried out in the press and through television and live appearances, but the single failed to make the top 100 in the UK charts - peaking at 101.
Despite this failure, a follow-up single was written and produced by colleagues of Stock Aitken and Waterman, Phil Harding and Ian Conrow who worked at Pete Waterman's record label, PWL. The song, "What Kind of Fool" was released with little fanfare and failed to chart anywhere. A music video was alleged to have been filmed, but it was not clear due to the failure of the single. Speculation between fans of Stock Aitken Waterman productions regarding this has been around for years, with a long-running Pop Justice forum thread dedicated to Kakko being active since 2006.[4] Ironically, the music video for "We Should Be Dancing" was considered lost, but surfaced on a promotional VHS compilation and uploaded to YouTube in 2011.[5]
The existence of this music video was long speculated by SAW fans, but it was confirmed to exist when in August 2012, a video was uploaded to YouTube containing various clips of Kakko's promotional appearances along with "What Kind of Fool." Besides some clips belonging to promotional appearances at The Coca-Cola Hitman Roadshow and children's television, there are clips of Kakko dancing in a nightclub with a boy, as well as looking off a pier and taking a trip to a water park whilst lip-syncing parts of the song. Besides these short clips, which are mostly looped, there is no more footage of the rest of the music video as it would have aired on television. No known promotional videos containing the video are known to exist either.
Further evidence suggests that an album was in the works, with a few tracks making their way online, but no official release was ever made.[4] Kakko has since found success on Japanese television.[2]
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A scene from the music video.
Nightclub scene from the music video.
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- ↑ An article on Kakko (Japanese). Retrieved 22 Jan '22
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Another article on Kakko (Japanese). Retrieved 22 Jan '22
- ↑ CLASSIC TRACKS: Rick Astley 'Never Gonna Give You Up' - Sound on Sound Retrieved 22 Jan '22
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Pop Justice forum thread on Kakko. Retrieved 22 Jan '22
- ↑ Pop Justice forum thread on Kakko (page 4). Retrieved 22 Jan '22