Had this song in the backlog for a while so I've decided to cover it. But when I accidentally put the title "Kaze ni Naritai" (I Want to Become the Wind) just by itself into the JASRAC database, I ended up getting 4 pages' worth of songs with the same title for the most part. I had no idea that so many songwriters wanted to become just like the wind.
Well, this "Kaze ni Naritai" was written and composed by J-Folk legend Takuro Yoshida（吉田拓郎）and performed by Yuko Kawamura（川村ゆうこ）as her debut single back in April 1976. It's a short song at a little over 3 1/2 minutes but I think that it punches somewhat above its time with its calm and refreshing mood and Kawamura's light but resonant vocals. It's as if that feeling of a comfortable breeze has indeed come wafting in through the window one spring day. Yoshida's lyrics themselves talk about a woman missing the company of a dearly beloved one.
Kawamura, who hails from Aomori Prefecture in the northern part of Japan, won the Grand Prix at the first edition of the For Life Newcomer Auditions back in 1975 after which Yoshida produced "Kaze ni Naritai". A total of 6 singles and 2 albums would follow before she would take a 20-year hiatus and make a comeback in 2008.
Somewhere down the line, Yoshida also performed a more contemporary cover of his creation.
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