Gosanke Imagined: "The Best 10" Gosanke（ザ・ベストテン御三家）

 

If you can take a gander at the Labels on the right side of the page (take your time, I'll wait), you can see the years with the largest number of articles on KKP: 1981 1982 and 1983. Well in recent days, there has been a pitched battle for dominance, a battle that had been led by 1982 by a good degree for many years. But the gap closed up and until a couple of days ago, there was a 3-way tie at 449 articles each. As of a couple of days ago, though, 1982 has inched forward once more with its 450th article.

However, 1981 isn't letting that go thanks to this article which is a sequel to last week's Gosanke（御三家）entry. That was my first imagined trio consisting of the first three female singers in Japan that I had seen for thanks to my trip there in that fateful year and repeated viewings of "The Best 10". Then I figured that if I could come up with a Sannin Musume（三人娘）according to that legendary music ranking show, then I can do the same with the male singers since I saw them as well for the first time. The genre base is a little wider for these guys, though.

Masahiko Kondo -- Blue Jeans Memory （ブルー・ジーンズ・メモリー）

Akira Terao -- Ruby no Yubiwa (ルビーの指輪)

Jun Horie -- Memory Glass（メモリーグラス）