Moving on from Remioromen's（レミオロメン）"San-gatsu Kokonoka"（3月9日）, an initially wedding-celebrating song turned into something more for graduations, I have here one of two songs that I heard on last night's episode of "Uta Con"（うたコン）which began with a tribute to the diploma season.
When I heard that Tetsuya Takeda's（武田鉄矢）old folk band Kaientai（海援隊）was starting things off, of course, I naturally thought that they were going to perform that graduation kayo "Okuru Kotoba" (贈る言葉）since it is arguably the band's most famous song. However, I was surprised to hear a completely different tune by Takeda and the guys instead.
"Start Line" does share a commonality with the 1979 "Okuru Kotoba" in that both songs were themes for Takeda's famous show "3-Nen B-Gumi, Kinpachi Sensei"（３年B組み金八先生...Mr. Kinpachi of Class 3B）in different years with "Start Line" being the theme for the fourth series in the franchise going from October 1995 to March 1996. As was the case with "Okuru Kotoba", this particular theme was handled by Takeda and fellow Kaientai member, guitarist Kazuomi Chiba（千葉和臣）, providing the music as it was released as the group's 25th single in November 1995.
Kaientai seems to have taken a different approach for this graduation song in their discography. Whereas "Okuru Kotoba" feels like a farewell to the old life at school, "Start Line" comes off as being even more hopeful than bittersweet as graduates take those first steps into their next stage in life. That familiar folksiness still remains in this song and it peaked at No. 28 on Oricon.
Back in 2017, I made my list of graduation kayo in KKP so have a gander at that.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Feel free to provide any comments (pro or con). Just be civil about it.