Kazuya Amikura -- Good-bye Yokosuka（Good-bye 横須賀）

 

For all of the songs that Kazuya Amikura（網倉一也）has provided other singers, according to his "Kayo Kyoku Plus" file, I've only been able to bring his own time in front of the mike just once so far. That was for his "Chance" from his 1981 album "Scene", a bit of West Coast AOR.

In that same article, I noted that his debut single in 1978 was "Good-bye Yokosuka" so I finally got it up here on KKP, and unlike "Chance", this is more in the folk/New Music vein. That keyboard intro had me wondering though because it sounds like something prefacing a theme for a Quinn/Martin detective show from that same decade. But as it is, "Good-bye Yokosuka" is a bittersweet tune about the departures and arrivals in the famous port city in Kanagawa Prefecture. Amikura, who wrote and composed the song under Ichizo Seo's（瀬尾一三）arrangement, hails from Yokosuka, so I'm sure that he was definitely feeling something with this one. The single was also included in his first album "Listen to My Love Songs", also from 1978.

Considering all of the kayo kyoku that have centered upon Yokosuka, I gather that the city is not just about the American military stationed there. By the way, the video below is from Video Street View Japan.