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Welcome to the 1100th article for "Kayo Kyoku Plus" in 2023. Not a day too soon either since New Year's Eve is tomorrow and frankly I don't think we'll ever reach this milestone again. However, I'm pretty content with that although I'll be happy with any extra articles that we put up before the year is nigh. Incidentally, according to the website iPublishing, numerology posits that the number 1100 asks that people be more self-aware and take responsibility for one's actions. Perhaps that would align with those New Year's resolutions that we often make and never follow. I for one will try to show more responsibility and not binge so much on Pringle's potato chips. Yeah...right!😜
Anyways, for our 1100th article, I'm going with the pop trio Do!. A few years ago, I first heard singer-songwriter Ryohei Yamanashi（山梨鐐平）on one of those "Light Mellow" CD compilations and then eventually learned that he used to belong to Do! along with Takaaki Fujioka（藤岡孝章）and Hideo Itagaki（板垣秀雄）between 1979 and 1981. During their run, they released 6 singles and 2 albums. You can take a listen to their exotic 1981 "Yoake made Tenshi"（夜明けまで天使）.
The only single that Do! released in 1980 was "Ore to Omae" (You and I), a gallant New Music tune with an arrangement reminiscent of a contemporized 1950s or 1960s style love ballad. It is indeed pretty laidback considering the rougher versions of the pronouns involved in the title but I take it that the folks in Fujioka's lyrics are a very close couple. Fujioka and Yamanashi took care of the melody with Shigeru Suzuki（鈴木茂）arranging everything.
Congratulation and again thank you for writing what has become the largest online Encyclopedia of Japanese pop music I know of.
ReplyDeleteThanks very kindly for your comments and support over this year. Hoping for more cordial conversation in 2024! Happy New Year!
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