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With all of the turmoil of yesterday's House of Councilors' election in Japan, I almost forgot that today is or was Ocean Day in the country. But NHK reminded me through its coverage of families hitting the beach to swim and collect seashells.
Of course, being the day to visit the seashore and enjoy marine activities, I have those memories of good ol' summertime band TUBE or as they were known in their early days, The Tube. I've managed to find the B-side to their October 1985 second single "Sentimental ni Kubittake" (センチメンタルに首ったけ). Written and composed by vocalist Nobuteru Maeda（前田亘輝）, "Onegai Radio" (Please, Radio) continues the happy twistable rock n' roll on the beach that got these guys started. Can imagine Annette and Frankie dancing on the sand.
When I saw TUBE in the title, and since it is summer time, I thought it was going to be a post about "Season in the Sun," a song I like, but I was pleasantly surprised, and you ended up a song by them that does not get much airtime at least not on TV these days. Recently it seem that you have been covering some classic Rock & Roll sounding songs.
ReplyDeleteHello, Brian. Yeah, I'd never heard of "Onegai Radio" before yesterday since I never got the original single but I gather that fans have been able to hear it in concert often enough.
DeleteI think it's been by coincidence that some of the songs going up recently have been in that old-style rock n' roll vein. But I gather that if I'm doing a rash of mid-70s to early-80s kayo, the chance that some of them will have that classic arrangement increases quite a lot.