I gather that along with the airport, the restaurant or café has been another setting for a kayo kyoku's romantic drama or aftermath. Well, when I mean aftermath, it usually involves a now-partnerless individual sitting at a table where there was once a happy couple.
That is the melancholy situation with "Sorezore no Table" (Separate Tables), the title track from Naomi Chiaki's（ちあきなおみ）October 1981 album. Written by Jean Claude Jouhaud and Arlette Tabart and composed by Alice Donadel, I couldn't help but place this in the Fashion Music genre (along with pop) because of the absolute elegance of that piano and Chiaki's smoky vocals. The Japanese lyrics were provided by Miki Masaki（真咲美岐）with arrangement by Tsugutoshi Goto（後藤次利）, which is a surprise since I've been accustomed to the bassist's funky City Pop approaches. But "Sorezore no Table", a ballad of remembrance as a woman sees her old flame with a young new lady in his life come into their old place and presumably sit at a distant table, is about as far away from an urban contemporary romp as one can get.
"Sorezore no Table" is a cover of the original 1977 song "Tables séparées" by French singer and actress Dalida from her album "Femme est la nuit". For both versions, I can hear a bit of that "My Way" in there.
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