As much as my image of the late legendary Hibari Misora(美空ひばり)has been that of the grande dame of kayo, alternately wearing a kimono or a sparkly jazzy dress, I was surprised to find out that she did have her time of "getting down", so to speak. And I think that was in the late 1960s when she started getting hep with mini-skirts and go-go boots in her performance of "Makkana Taiyo"(真赤な太陽). It was quite the eye-opener seeing her perform this one on TV via YouTube.
Well, it looks like she wanted to keep the good times (rock n') rollin' since the year following that massive hit "Makkana Taiyo", Misora retained the same two songwriters, lyricist Osamu Yoshioka(吉岡治)and composer/jazz tenor sax player Nobuo Hara(原信夫), to create "Murasaki no Yoake" (Purple Sunrise) in January 1968.
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