Some years ago, I mentioned a band by the name of The Last Show（ザ・ラストショウ）which was set up to act as backup for folk-rock singer Shigeru Izumiya（泉谷しげる）back in 1974 and then went on their own way from the latter half of that decade. However, following their 1978 album "Last Show 2", nothing more was heard from Koichi Matsuda（松田幸一）and his group.
But then in 2010, almost forty years later, The Last Show got together again and provided a new album in January called "Ieji ~ My Sweet Home"（家路）followed by a live album a few months later titled "The Noise From 80’s". I've already written about the title track and now here's a ballad from the album called "Tomo ni Genki" (Fine Together).
I dare you not to get all gooshy inside after listening to this one. Written by Kenji Kadoya（門谷憲二）and composed by band guitarist Hirofumi Tokutake（徳武弘文）, it sounds contemporary but there's also a feeling of an anchor to the past via some of those 70s slow love songs in a Boz Scaggs way. I don't know for certain who sings the male part, but it might be Rina from the band indigo blue as the female half of the duet here. You may want to have a tissue nearby.
It’s amusing how a song I’ve never heard before can somehow trigger a feeling of déjà vu. I know that I know this song is new to me, but yet it feels so familiar as if I had already heard it, even though I know I haven't.
ReplyDeleteFor me, "Tomo ni Genki" reminds me of Scaggs' "We're All Alone" and Billy Joel's "Just the Way You Are". I can understand that feeling of deja vu...that can describe a lot of City Pop.
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