Shozo Ise -- Orange Grove

 

It's been about 2 1/2 years since my previous Shozo Ise（伊勢正三）article and so perhaps it would be appropriate for this 9,801st KKP contribution to bring the folk-City Pop singer-songwriter back into the fold this way.

Actually, that article was for "Tonight, Tonight", a track from Ise's 4th album "Orange" from May 1983. So is this one. "Orange Grove" is a bouncy Ise-created tune which lands in an area between City Pop and Resort Pop, so I gather that in a travelogue sense, the open convertible (it always has to be a convertible) is en route between Tokyo and Hakone. One odd observation is that Ise sounds here and there as if he's already lying down in his hammock and getting away from the mike for a few microseconds to grab that Orange Mimosa. So, just like the album cover depicted above, the song scores two out of three oranges. Great horns, though.