I’d originally missed out on purchasing it when it first came out in 2002 and only discovered it through an online forum.
It soon became one of my “go-to’ albums to listen to while riding out to the country, and, as it is with most acts I discover thru MP3s, once I fell in love with it, I HAD to have the real, physcial CD. But it was LONG out of print and there was seemingly nowhere to get it!
Ebay sellers sold a wide variety of shizuka’s albums there, and I’d periodically check in to see if anyone was selling a copy of Showa no Kaidan, however as it was a later release of hers, there weren’t many copies out there to sell!
I had to be diligent in checking in, so what I did was save the ebay site with the search for Shizuka CD bookmarked under the search bar- that way, ANY time I logged onto ebay, it brought up all the CD items up for sale.
WELL, it took YEARS, a Good THREE years by my count, but one day a few weeks ago, I visited the ebay, site, scrolled down the list of Cds for sale…and SAW a listing for someone selling Showa No Kaidan!!!!!!!
You know I wasted NO TIME purchasing THAT one,and JUST got it in the mail today!!!
This is one of post-2000 Shizuka’s most fun and eclectic albums yet, a VERY wide style of songs here (which I'm guessing are songs chosen from Shizuka’s childhood growing up since the “theme” of the album has a “then and now” motif with pics of a very young Shizuka contrasted with the svelte singer we know today!
below: Front and back covers
booklet pics
The tracklisting:
Genki wo Dashite
(Originally by Yakushimaru Hiroko)
Koibito yo
(Originally by Itsuwa Mayumi)
Casa Blanca Dandy
(Originally by Sawada Kenji)
Kamome wa Kamome
(Originally by Ken Naoko)
Koori no Sekai
(Originally by Inoue Yosui)
Kuro no Funauta
(Originally by Nosaka Akiyuki)
Nan to Naku Nan to Naku
(Originally by Inoue Jun)
Coffee Rumba
and
Acacia no Ame ga Yamu Toki
(Originally by Nishida Sachiko)
Casbah no Onna
(Originally by Eto Kunieda)
Kuro Yuri no Uta
(Originally by Orii Shigeko)
Tennessee Waltz
(Originally by Eri Chiemi)
Hoshi no Nagare ni
(Originally by Kikuchi Akiko)
Such a wonderful collection of songs which i loved from the get go, it helps that outside of Patti Page's “Tennessee Waltz”, I did not know any of these songs beforehand, so the Shizuka versions are first time I'm hearing them at all!
Can’t wait to take this album out for a spin officially!
