Over the last couple of days, folks have been streaming out of Toronto via plane, train and automobile, most of them presumably to much warmer climes for the Holidays. And it's no wonder...this morning, I woke up to -17 degrees Celsius with a -24-degree wind chill. Having cocktails on the patio didn't come to mind here. The good thing is that the weather forecasters have predicted something closer to zero on Xmas Eve and Xmas Day with some precipitation so that we may get that White Christmas plus something a little balmier.
This particular cheerful song will be coming up on the final Yutaka Kimura Speaks article for 2024 (and after that, there will be just ten more weeks of the series before it all comes to an end), and all I can say is that Kimura must really love the works of singer-songwriter Masamichi Sugi（杉真理）considering how many of them have appeared.
His latest entry is "Rambling Bird", a track on his 8th studio album, "Sabrina", from July 1986. Written and composed by Sugi, it's another musical trip to Margaritaville and the beach through the eyes of the titular avian as he flits all over the place witnessing the beautiful people enjoying surf and sun. The light tropical air with the combination of piano, percussion and synth-harmonica (?) along with Sugi's floaty vocals bring that all-is-right atmosphere of flying down to a warm vacation away from the Great White North. Helping out on chorus is Seishiro Kusunose（楠瀬誠志郎）.
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