Hiroaki Igarashi -- Hatsukoi no Machi（初恋の街）

 

Not sure what it's like in your area when May comes around every year, but for us folks in Toronto, it's the month that we can finally (hopefully) put away the winter tires for good and most likely not see any snow again for several months. We also have our first major holiday weekend of the summer with the Victoria Day weekend and the summer activities such as parasailing can get under way.

And perhaps that's what singer-songwriter Hiroaki Igarashi（五十嵐浩晃）was thinking when he came up with his August 1981 third album "Sailing Dream". From it, I offer you the penultimate track from the album, "Hatsukoi no Machi" (First Love Town) which was written by Tetsuya Chiaki（ちあき哲也）and composed by Igarashi, the same duo behind the latter's big hit "Pegasus no Asa" (ペガサスの朝）from 1980. There's even a hint of that song's arrangement in "Hatsukoi no Machi" although overall this tune has more of a down-to-earth vibe and a seeming invitation by Igarashi to join him on his boat as shown on the album cover. I gather therefore that it can fall under the Resort Pop label.