Well, this will be Article No. 100 for September and still 58 minutes before we enter October as of this writing. It ties the record for the greatest number of articles in a month for "Kayo Kyoku Plus". I was looking at my stats last night when I finished No. 88 and just thought "Hey, why not?". I've never done twelve articles in a day before. I think that I may have mentioned some of that insanity before.
Anyways, speaking of wild n' zany, why don't we go with Spectrum（スペクトラム）? This band has never been the shy and retiring type with their horn-based music and crazed costumes. For conservative Japan, Ichiro Nitta（新田一郎）and his guys not only broke the mold, but they also most likely disintegrated it with a phaser.
Their fifth single is "Yoake (Alba)" (Dawn) which came out onto the record shelves in November 1980, and this time, the band has kinda lowered the funk temperature here and the falsetto delivery. Instead, what we get is some pretty steady-on Latin, but the horns are still in fine fettle. Spectrum was responsible for the words and music along with Haruo Chikada（近田春夫）also helping out with the lyrics. As for the Alba subtitle, this has nothing to do with the actress Jessica Alba, who wouldn't be born for another several months. Instead, the song was used as a jingle for the Seiko Alba watch; couldn't find the actual ad, though.
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