Hi-Fi Set -- Broadway de Yuushoku wo（ブロードウェイで夕食を）

 

I've been to the Big Apple twice and had my fair share of good food. However, I never got to partake in any of the cuisine in restaurants around Broadway. For this article, I curiously took a look at what some of the recommended eateries in that particular area are, and I found this one place called Buca di Beppo. I do like my Italian.

Apparently, so do the good folks at Hi-Fi Set（ハイファイセット）. As was the case with the previous article, I found another swinging first track of a 1979 album and it belongs to the long-time vocal trio. "Quarter Rest" starts off with "Broadway de Yuushoku wo" (Dinner on Broadway) and though it begins with a contemplative and folksy riff, it then gallops into a snazzy disco City Pop run as if the couple described through Keisuke Yamakawa's（山川啓介）lyrics are just marveling at the fact that they are among the lights of Broadway, about to catch a lovely dinner and then perhaps a musical as if they were normal New Yorkers. The really happy melody is by Hi-Fi Set member Toshihiko Yamamoto（山本俊彦）with Ichizo Seo（瀬尾 一三）arranging everything.

The good feelings engendered through "Broadway de Yuushoku wo" reflect how the Japanese must have felt back then when it came to their dreams of taking that trip to exotic places such as New York City, Hawaii and California. At the time, their aural representation was through genres such as City Pop and AOR. In any case, "Quarter Rest" also has another City Pop track that I've covered in the past: "TWO IN THE PARTY".

By the way, if any of you have any recommendations for good food in the Broadway area, let me know. I am quite curious.😀