It wasn't too long ago that I mentioned that I would probably end up doing an Author's Picks on hotel-based kayo kyoku because there were so many of them out there. In fact, I had included Jackey Yoshikawa and His Blue Comets' classic Group Sounds 1967 "Blue Chateau"（ブルー・シャトウ）but I got the warning from Blogger that I couldn't exceed the total of 200 characters per article in the Labels section, so I'm providing the link to the article above.
However, getting back on track, here is a small sampling of those hotel songs. It's interesting that airport-based kayo kyoku exist as a setting for bittersweet romantic partings whereas the hotel is the base for something quite the opposite (nudge, nudge, wink, wink).😍 The songs aren't presented in any sort of order.
(1983) BORO -- Negresco Hotel（ネグレスコ・ホテル）
(1990) Masayuki Suzuki -- Private Hotel （プライベートホテル）
(1985) Yutaka Shimazu -- Hotel （ホテル）
(1982) Yosui Inoue -- Riverside Hotel
(1986) Masatoshi Nakamura -- Omoide no Cliffside Hotel（想い出のクリフサイドホテル）
(1986) Hideki Saijo -- ROOM NUMBER 3021
I don't know if I have heard airport-kayo before, but I do know that you have introduced me to hotel-kayo before. Is that really Masatoshi Nakamura singing 「想い出のクリフサイドホテル」in the video you posted? It sounds quite different from the voice in these videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvMJ_ua0YyM
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MboEjRMX148
Thanks for catching that, Brian. I hadn't realized that it was a cover version of "Omoide no Cliffside Hotel" so I've replaced it with the real McCoy.
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