Sky -- Kimi ni, Kurakura（君に、クラクラ）

 

Last fall, I wrote about this short-lived duo called Sky with Eizo Kitazawa（北沢英三）and Takashi Morimoto（森本隆）through their 1981 song "Last Ballad"（ラスト・バラッド）. It's a slow and sweet ballad that fit the autumn quite nicely. Incidentally, just last week I wrote about a song that Kitazawa had composed under a later pseudonym, Masayoshi Hatta（八田雅弘）, titled "Kanashiki Sherry"（悲しき恋人）.

Well, a little more than half a year later, I've found another 1981 single under the Sky banner and that would be "Kimi ni, Kurakura" (Dizzying for You). And befitting the spring and rising temperatures, this one is rather more upbeat with Keisuke Yamakawa（山川啓介）providing the lyrics while Takao Horiuchi（堀内孝雄）from the folk group Alice（アリス）composed the melody. Tatsushi Umegaki（梅垣達志）arranged everything into a nice of mix good ol' rock-n'-roll and AOR.

Created as a jingle for a Kanebo Cosmetics commercial, "Kimi ni, Kurakura" is about a cocky fellow who manages to part the monochrome clouds away from a woman's life to provide some well-needed sunshine. I would probably think that the glare must have been truly dizzying for her. I'm assuming that some of that old footage in the above video is from those Kanebo ads.