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Well, this is not only the 12,001st article for "Kayo Kyoku Plus", but it looks like I missed out on someone's birthday by a couple of days. Yes, July 24th was Naoko Kawai's（河合奈保子）62nd birthday so many congratulations to her.
In commemoration, I have this one track from her 7th original album "Half-Shadow" which was released in October 1983. When I read Hiroko Taniyama's（谷山浩子）lyrics for her "Weather Song" before even listening to the song that was also concocted by her, I'd had the impression that it was going to be a rather melancholy ballad about a young lady tracing raindrops on the window while wondering when her Prince Charming would come to finally sweep her off her feet.
Actually, I should have gotten the clue when "Weather Song" was placed as the first track on Side B of "Half-Shadow" which has been labeled as "Sunny Side". Indeed, it's quite the happy-go-lucky tune with Shiro Sagisu（鷺巣詩郎）arranging things so that it sounds like something from the Beatles collection. At the same time, I could imagine an entire song-and-dance performance with Kawai leading a group of dancers in rain gear and umbrellas prancing about on the wet floor. Nothing sad about this one...the aforementioned lady is happily waiting for that prince.
Let me first wish you a very mighty congratulations on the 12,001 post of this blog or Encyclopedia of Japanese music. Mind you I haven't even been here for half of those post, but I am super glad you and the rest of the staff of this blog have continued to keep this blog going. Now, as for Naoko Kawai's "weather song" I like it it i super cute bright.
ReplyDeleteThanks kindly for keeping on reading. As for "Weather Song", it still has that amount of twinkliness that keeps the Aidoru label.
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