Circus -- Day Dreaming（デイ・ドリーミング）

 

One of my earliest articles on "Kayo Kyoku Plus" was vocal group Circus'（サーカス）"Mr. Summertime"（Mr.サマータイム）, their March 1978 hit 2nd single which was a cover of Michel Fugain's "Une Belle Histoire" from 1972. It's been a song that has stayed with me for so long because it was one of the first Japanese pop songs to adhere to my brain when I got started into enjoying kayo kyoku in the early 1980s. It has swing, class and any adjective I would add to anything that is in the sophisticated pop vein.

Well, a dozen years following that article, I'm finally putting up that B-side from the No. 1-hitting "Mr. Summertime". "Day Dreaming" is an appropriately breezy and classy tune that's pretty much a cousin to the A-side. This time, though, it isn't a cover of a French song but a homegrown tune. Machiko Ryu（竜真知子） was the lyricist while Junko Hirotani（広谷順子）took care of the basic melody with arranger Mitsuo Hagita（萩田光雄）taking care of everything else. Put some of this between your headphones and ears for pure listening pleasure.