Kyo Nishimura -- See You Again（シーユーアゲイン）

 

Thankfully, it doesn't happen very much at all but there are those rare occasions when a first article for a fairly obscure singer gets written up, and then later on, the YouTube videos for the song get taken down due to the usual copyright strikes or other reasons. It's frustrating but those are the breaks, and I certainly don't bear any ill will toward the YouTube channels.

A month ago, I wrote up an article on jazz singer Kyo Nishimura（西村協）regarding "Tabi ni Detai"（旅にでたい）and "Natsu no Owari ni"（夏の終りに）, two sides of the same single that came out in 1982. However, the video for the latter song has been eliminated unfortunately and I couldn't find any replacements. 

The other single that he put up in his early kayo days was in 1980 and it acted as the theme song for a TBS drama in that year titled "Rikon Tomodachi"（離婚ともだち...Friends of Divorce）. "See You Again" is a sweeping dramatic tune by Nishimura whose arrangement and his singing again reminds me of the works of Karyudo（狩人）and even Akira Fuse（布施明）this time. The song also has some big names behind it: lyricist Yu Aku（阿久悠）, composer Kyohei Tsutsumi（筒美京平）and arranger Masaaki Omura（大村雅朗）.

As I mentioned off the top, Nishimura has been a jazz singer for many years now. Here is a video courtesy of NPO Ongaku Shien Kyokai （NPO 音楽支援協会...NPO Music Support Association） of the man doing "Lover, Come Back to Me" from a 2013 concert.