Bread & Butter -- Aoi Chiheisen（青い地平線）

 

I'm rather surprised that Bread & Butter's（ブレッド＆バッター）"Aoi Chiheisen" (Blue Horizon) hasn't already made its appearance on "Kayo Kyoku Plus" up to now since I've seen the title a fair bit in the last several years. Plus, it's a trackmate with "Nagisa ni Ikou"（渚に行こう）, "The Last Letter" and "Ano Koro no Mama"（あの頃のまま）on the folk/City Pop duo's June 1979 album "Late Late Summer", all up on the blog. 

When comparing "Aoi Chiheisen" to those other tracks, I gather that this song is far more in the downtown core of Tokyo with the disco beat of Kyohei Tsutsumi's（筒美京平）melody although I can also hear a bit of "Charade"-mode Henry Mancini in there, too. Rei Nakanishi（なかにし礼）and Linda Rhee were responsible for the near-total English lyrics which has a fellow swooning over a chance love encounter in that prototypical two-ships-passing-in-the-night scenario. Considering the title, though, I wonder if the adventure couldn't have taken place on an actual ship.