Happy Weekend to you all! It's been a long time since I put up a Misato Watanabe（渡辺美里）song and as much as she loves you, we all love her so it is indeed time to rectify that situation.
My impression of Watanabe as she entered her 2nd decade of show business is that she was starting to get mellower. She still possessed that boomer voice from her beginnings in the mid-1980s but I think she was no longer bouncing off the walls like that eternal teen with the huge anime eyes as she entered the mid-1990s..
Her 31st single was "My Love, Your Love" with the Japanese subtitle of "Tatta Hitorishika Inai Anata e"（たったひとりしかいない あなたへ...To You, The Only One）from June 1996. Now if my memory serves me correctly, the song had been used as a campaign song for the Atlanta Olympics in the summer of that year for one of the commercial networks. Maki Ohguro's（大黒摩季）"Atsukunare"（熱くなれ）was the pop/rock barnburner for NHK, while Anri's（杏里）"Ano Natsu ni Modoritai"（あの夏に戻りたい）was the relaxing and tropical entry for TV Asahi's contribution to the Games. "My Love, Your Love" then was more of the pub-friendly singalong for those folks who may have wanted to watch the Olympics on the bar TV with buddies.
The song got as high as No. 13 on Oricon. It made its debut on an original album via Misato's 10th release "Spirits" which was released in July 1996. That album peaked at No. 5 and ended up as the 93rd-ranked album of the year. It's also included on her 15th-anniversary BEST album "Sweet 15th Diamond" from July 2000. And no, it's not on "She Loves You" which was her 10th anniversary album since it was too early.
That tune sounded really, really familiar. Is this one of the stock tunes? If my memory serves me right, there is also a Vietnamese with very similar tune.
ReplyDeleteHi, Fireminer.
DeleteIt's very possible that it has been covered. Watanabe wrote and composed the song so you might want to check the liner notes for the song in Vietnam.