Yoko Kishi -- Koigokoro（恋心）

 

Taking things back in time a number of decades to 1965. Here I have some chanson in the form of Yoko Kishi's（岸洋子）"Koigokoro". I first introduced Kishi on the pages of KKP through her 1964 single, "Yoake no Uta"（夜明けのうた）and she shared the chanson stage with Fubuki Koshiji（越路吹雪）.

Kishi's "Koigokoro" is a Japanese cover of the original 1964 "L'amour, C'est pour rien" by Algerian-French singer Enrico Macias, with Fumio Nagata（永田文夫）providing the Japanese lyrics. It's quite the intimate tango as lushly sung by Kishi, thanks to that lonely guitar although the trilling flute and the strings lighten the mood a bit. I'm thinking basement French restaurant with plenty of atmosphere here.