Keiko to Endy, Lewis -- Kaze（風）

 

This is another one of those bands whose origins were extremely hard to trace and they remain so. I wasn't even quite sure how to transcribe their name into romaji. I'd thought that it was Keiko to Endless which was unusual but not out of the realm of possibility considering some of the weird names that kayo groups could have. 

But indeed, it was Keiko to Endy, Lewis (けい子とエンディルイス/Keiko and Endy & Lewis) from what I could find in very small print on one of their singles. As it turned out, another small grain of information that I could garner from this site is that the two guys, Endy Yamaguchi（エンディ山口）and Lewis Takano（ルイス高野）, were two of the members from Mood Kayo/pop group Pinky and Killers（ピンキーとキラーズ）who had that big 1968 hit in "Koi no Kisetsu" (恋の季節）with them in bowlers and ties.

Pinky and Killers broke up in 1972 after which Endy and Lewis teamed up with Keiko to form a far more relaxed trio in the folk genre. I couldn't track down how many singles exactly they came up with, but there was at least one album titled "Tonari no Futari"（隣りの二人...The Couple Next Door） created in 1974, and so I'm assuming that this particular song "Kaze" (Winds) came from there since I wasn't able to find it on any of their singles, either on A or B sides. I wasn't even able to find out who the songwriters were behind "Kaze", but it's a very pleasant tune accompanied by harmonica and guitar with the high and light vocals of Keiko and Endy and Lewis providing their own harmony.