これまで何度か１９８０年代に、私自身が洋楽にハマった旨の記事を書き、合わせてよく聴いていた楽曲もリンクして紹介した。とにかく懐かしく、また聴くと、当時高校生から大学生として学生時代を送っていた日のことを、まるで昨日のことのように想いだされるし、色鮮やかに当時のことが蘇ってくるようだ。そこで今回は、青春時代に私が好んで聴いていた軽快な８０年代アメリカンポップスを中心に毎回５曲ずつ厳選して、全１２回シリーズで、２週間かけて合計６０曲お送りしたいと思う。
なお、リンクする「YouTube」映像は予告なく削除される場合があるのでご了承願います。第１回目の今日は、この曲をどうぞ！なお、歌詞は私が原曲から聴き取って記載したものです。
We're All Alone ｂｙ ボブ・スキャッグス
Outside the rain begins
And it may never end
So cry no more
On the shore a dream
Will take us out to sea
Forever more forever more
Close your eyes ami
And you can be with me
Beneath the waves
Through the caves of hours
Long forgotten now
We're all alone we're all alone
Manic Monday ｂｙ Bangles
Six o'clock already I was just in the middle of a dream
I was kissin' Valentino by a crystal blue Italian stream
But I can't be late 'cause then I guess I just won't get paid
These are the days when you wish your bed was already made.
It's just another manic Monday (oh-woe)
I wish it was Sunday (oh-woe)
'Cause that's my Funday (oh-woe)
My I don't have to runday (oh)
It's just another manic Monday.
Have to catch an early train, got to be to work by nine
And if I had an air-o-plane, I still couldn't make it on time
'Cause it takes me so long just to figure out what I'm gonna wear
Blame it on the train but the boss is already there.
It's just another manic Monday (oh-woe)
I wish it was Sunday (oh-woe)
'Cause that's my Funday (oh-woe)
My I don't have to runday (oh)
It's just another manic Monday.
Video Killed The Radio Star ｂｙ The Buggles
I heard you on the wireless back in Fifty Two
Lying awake intent at tuning in on you.
If I was young it didn't stop you coming through.
Oh-a oh
They took the credit for your second symphony.
Rewritten by machine and new technology,
and now I understand the problems you can see.
Oh-a oh
I met your children
Oh-a oh
What did you tell them?
Video killed the radio star.
Video killed the radio star.
Pictures came and broke your heart.
Oh-a-a-a oh
And now we meet in an abandoned studio.
We hear the playback and it seems so long ago.
And you remember the jingles used to go.
Oh-a oh
You were the first one.
Oh-a oh
You were the last one.
Video killed the radio star.
Video killed the radio star.
In my mind and in my car, we can't rewind we've gone to far
Oh-a-aho oh,
Oh-a-aho oh
You Can't Hurry Love ｂｙ Phil Collins
I need love, love
ooh, ease my mind
And I need to find time
someone to call mine;
My mama said
You can't hurry love
No, you'll just have to wait
She said love don't come easy
But it's a game of give and take
You can't hurry love
No, you'll just have to wait
Just trust in a good time
No matter how long it takes
How many heartaches must I stand
Before I find the love to let me live again
Right now the only thing that keeps me hanging on
when I feel my strength, ooh, it's almost gone
I remember mama said
You can't hurry love
No you'll just have to wait
She said love don't come easy
It's a game of give and take
How long must I wait
How muck more must I take
Before loneliness
Will cause my heart, heart to break?
No, I cant bear to live my life alone
I grow impatient for a love to call my own
But when I feel that I, I can't go on
Well these precious words keep me hanging on
I remember mama said
You can't hurry love
No, you'll just have to wait
She said love don't come easy
Well, it's a game of give and take
You can't hurry love
No, you'll just have to wait
Just trust in a good time
No matter how long it takes, now break!
Owner Of A Lonely Heart ｂｙ Yes
Move yourself
You always live your life
Never thinking of the future
Prove yourself
You are the move you make
Take your chances win or loser
See yourself
You are the steps you take
You and you, and that's the only way
Shake, shake yourself
Your every move you make
So the story goes
Owner of a lonely heart
Owner of a lonely heart
(Much better than a)
Owner of a broken heart
Owner of a lonely heart
第１回目の今日はここまで。のっけから８０年代にあなたを誘うような、その時代を代表する曲ばかりをお送りした。これらの曲のひとつひとつに若かりし頃の想い出やその時々の一コマ一コマが遠い記憶の中から甦って来る。もったいぶる訳ではないが、次回の２回目はどんな曲が登場するか楽しみにしていてほしい。
記事作成：１月２８日（火）