Miko Tanabe -- Campus Doori no Pub（キャンパス通りのパブ）

 

I've mentioned this place a few times over the years. This is the Madison Avenue Pub, very close to the University of Toronto and therefore a popular haunt for the undergrads and graduate students and professors. I've visited the place with friends and that even includes the past number of years, excluding the pandemic ones. These days, it's been more of the late morning-early afternoon visits, so my friends and I have been able to avoid the crush of kids.

The title of this chestnut reminded me of the ol' Mad. "Campus Doori no Pub" (Campus Avenue Pub) was the one-and-only single by Miko Tanabe（田辺ミコ）, another one of those singers who came and went, and so there's virtually no information on the lady. Once again, the only source of data was through "idol.ne.jp" and that was just to show the single itself with the release date of July 1978 and the songwriters who consisted of lyricist Konosuke Fuji（藤公之介）and composer Masaaki Hirao（平尾昌晃）.

I'm not sure whether Tanabe had been thought of as an aidoru despite the website, and the arrangement of "Campus Doori no Pub" is such that it could have gone either way between aidoru and straight pop. It's got a nice jaunty beat and it has a good instrumental bridge with strings. Plus, I thought that Tanabe's vocals were pleasantly resonant, and they reminded me of early 1970s aidoru Mari Amachi（天地真理）. It's a pity that she didn't release any more singles.

Gotta have them wings with fries and gravy!