Once in a while, our local news station will have a charity raffle for a summer house out in the countryside by Georgian Bay or some other lake in Ontario (the above is actually a video for some place similar in the state of Wisconsin). I could never pay the price needed to enter the raffle but I've noticed that the prize doesn't just include the house but also a million bucks. No doubt, the winner will get the house but that person will also be saddled with property tax for the next number of years, so the million will come in handy.
Well, perhaps someone like veteran Japanese entertainer Masatoshi Nakamura（中村雅俊）wouldn't have to worry too much about the expense of owning a summer house although I don't know how much something like that would go for out in Japan. Knowing him, he may also own property outside the nation such as in Hawaii.
Anyways, he at least sings about a summer house via his "Akogare no Summer House" (Summer House of My Dreams), the B-side to his 21st single, "Puzzle Night"（パズル・ナイト）, from June 1984. Written by Ayumi Date（伊達歩）, composed by NOBODY, and arranged by Hiroshi Shinkawa（新川博）, it's got that handclapping rock-n-roll beat and the hopeful title, so perhaps Nakamura's place is the place to hold the Queen of All Parties; not a bad thing this summer. Mind you, sometimes I think that the tempo of "Akogare no Summer House" threatens to leave Nakamura's vocals in the dust, so maybe he could have used that summer house therapy at the end of recording.
Masatoshi Nakamura looks like he is coming out of the set of Knight Rider, but his music has that classic rock n’ roll style although maybe it has some of the charm of Wham!'s "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go". Yeah, I know these two songs sound nothing alike, but...
ReplyDeleteI think there was a whole popular rock n' roll style with Japanese songs back in that time...and also in the West (Wham!, Stray Cats, etc.). True, the two songs you've mentioned don't sound alike but the upbeat and jangly style is there.
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