Love Wings -- Fly Like a Bird（フライ・ライク・ア・バード）

 

I used to hear this a fair bit in English classes and anime: "I wish I were a bird". Probably one of the great things to introduce students to the Second Conditional.

This song reminded me of that. I had no idea about this aidoru group Love Wings（ラブ・ウイングス）which has been referred to as the Kansai version of famed trio Candies（キャンディーズ）. I haven't been able to find out when this group, which incidentally started out as Love Winks before the slight tweak in one of its final morphemes, started up, but "Fly Like a Bird", the song of note here, was the B-side to Love Wings' fifth single "Happy Jumping Roller"（ハッピー・ジャンピング・ローラー）from November 1979. So, perhaps they'd been around since 1978 at least.

Looking at the cover of the single, I wonder whether Love Wings performed in front of the TV cameras and audiences on roller skates as Hikaru Genji（光GENJI）would several years afterwards. But getting back to "Fly Like a Bird", the ladies whose names I have yet to discover sound just like Candies and the song is a very congenial tune written by Toyohisa Araki（荒木とよひさ）and composed by Tatsushi Umegaki（梅垣達志）, so that I could imagine Ran, Su and Miki tackling this one, although by the time this particular single came out, the Candies had already broken up.