Hibari Children Chorus -- Gamera no Uta（ガメラの歌）

Nothing like a good kaiju movie on Sunday afternoon, and it was around this time almost 50 years ago that from time to time that one of the Buffalo New York television affiliates would throw on a movie starring Godzilla, Mothra or Gamera battling another gigantic threat to Tokyo. I think Gamera the lovable monster turtle, though, usually showed up on the Toronto channel, CITY-TV during the 1970s. The above is actually a scene from "Dai Kaijuu Kuuchuusen Gamera Tai Gyaos"（大怪獣空中戦 ガメラ対ギャオス...Gamera vs. Gyaos）which was first released in Japanese theatres in March 1967. Actually, I kinda recall seeing the Gyaos movie.

The theme for "Gamera Tai Gyaos" was "Gamera no Uta" (Gamera's Song). Now, back in early 2017, I had already written about "Gamera March"（ガメラマーチ）, which was the first song associated with Gamera that I'd heard as a kid when one of its movies came out, and that was for the 1968 entry "Gamera vs. Viras".

With this earlier "Gamera no Uta", though, this was less a baseball championship march in comparison with "Gamera March", and more of a samba-based dance at the Club Tropicana as performed by the Hibari Children Chorus（ひばり児童合唱団）. I'm not sure whether the big guy was even capable of it, but maybe he could swivel his back legs to this one. Hidemasa Nagata（永田秀雅）, the producer of the movies, wrote the words to "Gamera no Uta", as he did for "Gamera March", while Akira Komachi（小町昭）took care of the music.