Kiyoshiro Imawano’s classic and popular songs

Let’s slip out of the party.Imawano Kiyoshiro & Shinohara Ryoko

Kiyoshiro Imawano · Ryoko Shinohara

This is a duet with Ryoko Shinohara, who was mainly active as a singer at the time.

It’s a very catchy song, and I remember the part where she kissed during a TV appearance.

Among Kiyoshiro’s female fans, there seemed to be quite a bit of jealousy toward Ryoko Shinohara.

Hand Clapping Rhumba 2000Imawano Kiyoshiro & Tin Pan

Kiyoshiro Imawano w/ Tin Pan – Hand Clapping Rhumba 2000

The backing band is a mixed group of Tin Pan Alley–style artists, which is really luxurious.

If there had been a TV program like this, I wish I had recorded it.

I hope they rebroadcast it.

The lyrics of this song are great, too.

And this video lets you enjoy Kiyoshiro’s unique stage performance.

I can’t remember that song.RC sakuseshon

The True Early RC Succession 2

This is a song from the Clover era, the predecessor of RC Succession.

Kiyoshiro Imawano wrote the lyrics, and at the time, fellow member Seiichi Takeda composed the music.

After the folk group Kaguyahime covered it on their first album, it was later included as a self-cover on the album HARD FOLK SUCCESSION.

turning over in bedImawano Kiyoshirō

Negaeri ~ Kiyoshiro Imawano

This is a song included on a CD I received as a membership renewal perk for Kiyoshiro’s fan club in 2002.

I thought it had a rather unusual, dark tone for a Kiyoshiro song, and it turns out the composer was Takao Kisugi.

The lyrics are, as expected, very good, but I always found it a mysterious song.

Lately, I’ve come to think—purely on my own—that it might actually be a lullaby.

MOTHERImawano Kiyoshirō

Kiyoshiro Imawano “Mother”

I add Japanese lyrics to covers of John Lennon’s songs at a tribute concert that’s always held around the anniversary of his death.

Lennon’s original vocals are amazing, of course, but after Kiyoshiro passed away, Yoshiii, the vocalist of The Yellow Monkey, praised him, saying, “I’ll never forget that incredible voice when he sang ‘Mother.’”

helicopterZa Taimāzu

05 Helicopter

This is a song from the second album by The Timers, the band where Kiyoshiro didn’t use his real name and went by Zerry.

The lyrics are incredible in how they express anger toward the media helicopters flying over Kobe to broadcast the city as it was engulfed in flames during the Great Hanshin Earthquake.

Intense RomanceMitsukiyo

[PV] Mitsukiyo | Intense Romance – Kiyoshiro Imawano & Mitsuhiro Oikawa

It’s a collaboration between Mitsuhiro Oikawa and Kiyoshiro.

According to Oikawa, when he asked Kiyoshiro to write a song and Kiyoshiro immediately asked for the title, Oikawa managed to say, “Kyōretsu Romance.” Kiyoshiro then suddenly started drumming for a few minutes and said, “Something like this?” and began composing.

It’s a cool rock ’n’ roll track.