Mariko Nagai（永井真理子）was one of the artists who stood out from my time in Japan between 1989-1991. The pixieish singer often came up with happy pop music. However, "Zutto"(Forever & Always) was her hit love ballad released in October 1990. It was used as the ending theme song for one of my favourite variety shows on Fuji-TV starring veteran comedienne Kuniko Yamada（山田邦子）. The song was composed by Takayuki Negishi（根岸貴幸）and written by Airin aka Yoshiko Miura（三浦徳子）. It hit No. 1 on the Oricon weeklies and ended up becoming the 30th-ranked song of 1991.
I've been a fan of Japanese popular music for 40 years, and have managed to collect a lot of material during that time. So I decided I wanted to talk about Showa Era music with like-minded fans. My particular era is the 70s and 80s (thus the "kayo kyoku"). The plus part includes a number of songs and artists from the last 30 years and also the early kayo. So, let's talk about New Music, aidoru, City Pop and enka.
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Mariko Nagai -- Zutto
Mariko Nagai（永井真理子）was one of the artists who stood out from my time in Japan between 1989-1991. The pixieish singer often came up with happy pop music. However, "Zutto"(Forever & Always) was her hit love ballad released in October 1990. It was used as the ending theme song for one of my favourite variety shows on Fuji-TV starring veteran comedienne Kuniko Yamada（山田邦子）. The song was composed by Takayuki Negishi（根岸貴幸）and written by Airin aka Yoshiko Miura（三浦徳子）. It hit No. 1 on the Oricon weeklies and ended up becoming the 30th-ranked song of 1991.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Feel free to provide any comments (pro or con). Just be civil about it.