Well, the weekend is upon us once more. To be specific, it's the Canada Day long weekend so folks in the major cities are probably doing their best to get out of Dodge as quickly as possible. Plus, it's a good weekend for it with all of the summery weather that has finally arrived.
Therefore, in honour of all of those cars heading out on the highways and byways to cottage country, I bring you "Ai wa Tabun" (Love is Probably) by smooth-singing Rajie. A short track from her 1977 debut album "Heart to Heart", it was also used as the commercial song for the Nissan Skyline, and it's got that calm and mellow melody that would be quite a nice car stereo accompaniment for a relaxing drive out in the country.
That calm and mellow melody was provided by Nobuyuki Takahashi（高橋信之）, music producer and brother of Yukihiro Takahashi（高橋幸宏）, drummer from Yellow Magic Orchestra, and the lyricist was Keisuke Yamakawa（山川啓介）. As the original commercial makes clear, "Ai wa Tabun" has that wistfulness of making that long journey as a loving couple through the countryside and forests, leaving all those urban cares behind. Good times, back then.
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