I'm Not Your Fool (Discrete Deceit) (formerly known as Cat’s Meow) is a formerly unidentified indie rock/power pop demo song by Moroccan-French musician Marc Tobaly and John Kenny, released in 1979. The actual OP is unknown.
Search History
The song was reposted to YouTube on July 16th, 2020, by user Slightly Improved Sound Quality. They didn’t provide any information about the song, but they said them and multiple other people were trying to find information about the song.
On September 22nd, the OP said It was found in a demo reel-to-reel of Steely Dan - Gaucho, and the OP deleted their video. There was a lead for a song by Fast Eddie titled "I'm Not Your Kind Of Fool" but it was quickly ruled out by one of the band members.
Around two weeks after the song received a channel on the FMM Discord server, a huge lead was found by user Ambrose on cocatalog.gov for a song with the title "I'm Not Your Fool" and an alternate title "Discrete Deceit" by Marc Tobaly and John Kenny, Both titles were in the lyrics, so they contacted Marc, as John's contacts couldn't be found.
After being in verification for a year and a half, on July 10th, 2022, Marc Tobaly responded to an Email by user Discord Marcos, saying that "the song was in his catalog".
A week later, July 17th, 2022, Marc responded again and he said that the recording was indeed his song and he was going to contact John Kenny, as he was the one singing in the song.
The song was still in verification, awaiting full audio for a while, until March 10th, 2024. On that day, Marc Tobaly passed away of a long illness. Now that there was no way to confirm the song, it was marked as solved without HQ audio, since there was no way to find John Kenny.
However, user Tyx pointed out that it turns out there are no cut-offs in this song, Making this the full song.
Lyrics
Two, one two three
You think you're the cat's meow
Strutting with your head up high
Do you think you've given love a try
Shovin' in your limousine
Pretty likes of beauty queen
You think you're rich and also sweet
You're nothing but a victim of discrete deceit
You don't have to be so hard
You don't have to talk so loud
You don't have to be so [black/glad]
Cause I'm not your fool