Not long ago, I wrote about a song by Spitz called Cherry, and I thought it was time for another. I actually mentioned this song a long time ago in an update I did about Karaoke, but I never posted it because I couldn’t find a nice version. Well, thanks to Matt, this version has come to my attention, which is I believe the original version, as opposed to the dodgy panpipes one I’d found.
I know this is blatant filler material again, but bear with me. We’re in rainy season right now and it’s a miracle that the furious rain and unbearable humidity haven’t managed to drive me insane yet.
June 28th, 2007 at 10:57 pm
Time for the interesting stuff ;)
Nada-sousou does not mean much to the normal Japanese person - it is in the Okinawan dialect and in standard Japanese means “涙がぽろぽろこぼれ落ちる”.
Ofcourse me not having been to Okinawa I called this song “namida sousou” (the “normal” reading) and everyone thought I was really cute…
Although it was first released in March 2000 by Moriyama Ryoko (of the band BEGIN) it was not a big hit until covered by Natsukawa Rimi a year later. There was also a movie made this year about the story behind the song - http://www.nada-so.jp/story.html
This song gets dusted off and re-released each summer, usually selling well.
June 29th, 2007 at 8:00 am
heard this, and like it a lot.
thanks to leon for the cool story behind it!
June 29th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
I LOVE this song.
I like Rimi Natsukawa version.
Her singing is beautiful with Okinawan taste.
I knew that Ryoko Moriyama wrote this song but didn’t know that she sung originally with BEGIN.
Very well searched, Leon.(^-^)b
July 19th, 2007 at 11:04 pm
I realy like this song..it always makes me cry whenever i heard this song. I remember about my memories in Japan. I have stayed there for 20 yrs,married and have 3 kids with my former Japanese husband. The song makes my heart broken. I’ve seen the trailer of the movie “nada sousou” it touch my heart again , because my mother just died recently… I am looking forward to see this movie because i realy love this song”nada sousou”
July 20th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
emiri: I’m sorry to hear about your mother, but I agree this is a beautiful song :)
March 25th, 2008 at 3:41 am
I really love this song! It always remids me of my japanese grandmother who died 2 years ago. Everytime I hear this, it always makes me cry remembering the good time with my grandmother….
March 26th, 2008 at 1:01 am
Leslie: It seems a lot of people have a lot of strong emotional ties to this song. It’s a great one, and fits the film so well.
May 19th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
actually the song was written by Higa Eisho of the group “Begin” and the lyrics were written by Moriyama Ryoko. She redorded the song first, but was never a member of the band “Begin”. She wrote the lyrics about her brother who died at a young age.
May 19th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
Paul: Yeah I remember reading about that, I just never put it in the update. Oops. :)
May 25th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Thanks for the valuable commets of yours…
Natsukawa’s voice is natsukashii.Never heard a soft and pure voice like that…
Still criying:)
May 25th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Kafkas: Ah, people are still finding this post and making nice comments on it I see :) Truly a timeless track