Update
March 13, 2003
A little video clip, of poor quality. A Summer Affair "Kare no kuruma ni notte" (Quicktime 640K)
"What!?! You're still obsessing about that silly song?
"I love that song."
March 5, 2003
We were watching the silly-but-fun, romantic comedy Adorenarin Doraibu (Adrenaline Drive) for the first time the other night. In an early chase scene, the young couple just barely eludes the junior yakuza by jumping in the back of a truck. The six wanna-be gangsters are stuffed into a very small car. A song comes on the radio. The gangster's dialog goes something like this:
"Hey. I know this tune." (Turns it up.)
"What!?! No golden oldies. Turn it to rock and roll."
"No. This is a great song." (Starts singing.)
"Turn it off!"
"Sing. I said, sing!"
By the end of the scene, they've forgotten the car chase and are driving through the country singing. The great thing is I knew the song, too. I love this song, but I didn't know it was famous. In 1990, it was the background music in some commercial. (This is really strange because I don't listen to much pop music and I know almost no Japanese pop music. So the fact that they played the one song I know was really, really cool.)
The first line is: "Kare no kuruma ni notte....". Doing a first line search on the internet, I found this information.
曲名：真夏の出来事 歌い出し歌詞：かれの くるまにのって 歌い出しメロディー："DDD,DMS^DLL" 作詞：橋本 淳 作曲：筒美京平 年代：1971 歌手：平山三紀 メモ：
Is this the right song? The artist is Miki Hirayama? Can anyone tell me more about this song. How popular it was, or what feeling it gives you when you hear it? What are the words are in Japanese. What do the words mean.
Posted by M Sinclair Stevens
March 05, 2003
Comments
Oh yeah, that's it. Very natsukashii! It sure was a big hit. From the link you put here... it was in 1975! Wow. Well, it was a song of a girl going for a drive in her boyfriend's car in summer. But I don't remember the words very well now. And I think I haven't seen Miki Hirayama for years.
Comment by: Kiyo. Posted March 5, 2003 08:16 PM.
Rats, Kiyo, you were my best hope. Doesn't anyone else know the lyrics to this song...or a link where I can find them? How about your wives, husbands, or in-laws?
Comment by: M. Posted March 7, 2003 07:33 AM.
Just a quick note. M, a friend of mine on the Net found the words. I didn't know it's a song of romantic breakup. Feel free to ask me whatever you don't understand.
彼の車にのって
真夏の夜を走りつづけた
彼の車にのって
さいはての町 私は着いた
悲しい出来事が
起こらないように
祈りの気持をこめて
見つめあう二人を
朝の冷たい海は
鏡のようにうつしていた
朝の冷たい海は
恋の終りを知っていた
彼の両手をとって
やさしいことば
さがしつづけた
彼の両手をとって
冷たいほほに くちづけうけた
悲しい出来事が 起らないように
祈りの気持をこめて
見つめあう二人は
白いかもめのように
体をよせて歩いていった
白いかもめのように
涙にぬれて歩いていった
Comment by: Kiyo. Posted March 8, 2003 07:10 PM.
Hey, linebreaks aren't accepted here?
Comment by: Kiyo. Posted March 8, 2003 07:21 PM.
すみません。Thanks so much for the song lyrics! You're a sweetie. Now I will have a translation project for Spring Break (this week).
Yeah...these comments don't have auto-line breaks turned on because I had planned to try a slightly different format on this blog and needed to enter HTML in the comments. You can enter the tags yourself...but usually I go and edit people's entries. So don't worry about it. I need to update the comments forms to explain and to protect the email addresses from spammers.
Comment by: M. Posted March 10, 2003 08:26 AM.
That song has like haunted me for ages. Does anyone know where I can download it?
I don't. But if anyone finds out, let me know. I'd love to have it, too.
-- M
Comment by: trudy. Posted July 14, 2003 10:23 PM.
ARRRGH! I wanna hear this song SO BAD but I can't find it ANYWHERE. ;o; The scene with the thugs in the car is probably my favorite in the entire film XD
Comment by: Mitsu. Posted October 11, 2003 01:50 AM.
The song "Sukiyai" has haunted me since childhood. I believe I heard it as far back as 1963. I've always loved it and I hummed it to my infant daughter back in 1993. Look up Kyu Sakamoto. He was the original singer. Take care, DLF
Comment by: Derek. Posted August 15, 2006 01:33 AM.
I think I have the song you are looking for, it's called "Manatsu No Dekigoto" I'm not sure if you still need it or not, but in case you do I've uploaded it. You can get it here: http://www.sendspace.com/file/1yzqb2
Comment by: Melissa. Posted September 26, 2006 03:14 PM.
Does anyone still have this song and could up it somewhere? Thanks in advance. * Yeah. It's available on Miki Hirayama's Golden J-Pop: The Best" CD. My son got me a copy for Christmas. -- mss
Comment by: André. Posted October 24, 2006 03:44 PM.
Thank you all so much! I thought there was no hope of ever finding the name of this song much less the name of the singer. It's one of my favorites.
Comment by: marty fry. Posted December 1, 2006 09:16 PM.
I think I found the youtube video, is this what you were looking for?
Comment by: J. Posted July 28, 2007 09:14 PM.
Would anyone be kind enough to upload that "Manatsu No Dekigoto" song again ? The sendspace link is no longer working (T_T) I have some 80s J-pop at my blog. Feel free to drop by and listen : http://frederickgam.blogspot.com/2007/07/playlist-2007-07-20.html
Comment by: frederickgam. Posted August 4, 2007 10:41 PM.
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