It's been about six years since I've added something by the Group Sounds band The Spiders（ザ・スパイダース）, outside of references via ROY articles. The last time was June 2017 when I put up their "Summer Girl"（サマー・ガール）.
Written and composed by band member Hiroshi "Monsieur" Kamayatsu（かまやつひろし）as their Christmas Day 1966 single, "Nantonaku Nantonaku" (Somehow Somehow) has an adorably cornball "Aw, shucks" sort of vibe as Jun Inoue（井上順）sings about how hard he has fallen in love with that girl. It has much more of a cordial country lilt than the usual rock n' roll, maybe even a bit of Hawaiian thanks to Katsuo Ohno's（大野克夫）steel guitar. Despite the Yuletide release, there is something about the song that feels much more summery, and rather than a Christmas tree proposal, I think that the setting here would be a beach for the one-knee ask.
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