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I began the Yasuko Kuwata（桑田靖子）file pretty early in the history of "Kayo Kyoku Plus", with her 4th single "My Joyful Heart" from 1984 getting onto the blog in the middle of 2013. Surprisingly, I have yet to write about her debut single "Datsu - Platonic"（脱・プラトニック）from early 1983 which seems to have been her most significant hit.
But until that day comes, I'm going to continue the Kuwata file with her 3rd single from October 1983, "Moshikashite Dream" (It Was All a Dream?). Created by the same team which took care of her first two singles including "Datsu - Platonic", lyricist Masao Urino（売野雅勇）, composer Hiroaki Serizawa（芹澤廣明）and arranger Koji Makaino（馬飼野康二）, it comes off initially as an intrepid and fairly serious theme for a TV detective series in the 1960s until the chorus bursts forth into a major-key happy tune. Maybe that dream has actually turned into a reality? The song managed to peak at No. 71 on Oricon.
Hey! I've been lurking this blog quietly for the last couple years and I just wanted to thank you for taking the time to catalog and translate the information you find. It's always hard to find details in English on lesser-known (in the west) artists and songs from Japan and you've created such an expansive archive over the years that every time I try to search for some random song I hear I on J1 Gold at 3 am you almost always have something written up about it. You're doing valuable work and I really appreciate your passion for making this information more accessible to others.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much from some random guy in California!
Thank you very much for your kind comments. I'm happy that you've been able to get some information and enjoyment out of the articles for the past couple of years. Keep reading! :)
DeleteI hope you do get a chance to muse over "Datsu/Platonic." I am interested in hearing your take on it. The song does come off as sounding like an 80's detective drama, and I don't know, maybe it was composed like that on purpose to convey the suspicion that it was all just a dream, and I guess the more happy-sounding part conveys that, as you suspect that the dream became reality.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I'll see if I can get an article on "Datsu/Platonic" sometime in March. It's often interesting when songwriters decide to change keys rather suddenly.
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