Recommended! Tatsuro Yamashita’s classic and popular songs

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I tried playing the bass for Tatsuro Yamashita’s “LOVELAND, ISLAND” 🎵 Rara Hoshino ✨

Speaking of summer classics, this is the song.

It got a bit famous thanks to the music video featuring Higashiyama from Shonentai, but I think it’s still not very well-known.

Ever since I saw that video, whenever I hear this song I can’t help but remember Higashiyama’s incredibly cool dance.

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Bomber – Go Ahead! Tatsu Yamashita

For a Tatsuro song, this track is unusually built around a hard-edged performance.

Matching the tone, the lyrics are also atypical—rather than the usual sweet love song, they have an epic, cinematic quality, as if watching a scene from a film.

The bass solo in the middle provides a nice accent and ties the whole piece together.

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Guilty Masayuki Suzuki

I first came to know this song through Masayuki Suzuki’s version.

In Tatsuro Yamashita’s version, you can savor a different, more transparent kind of charm compared to Suzuki’s.

It’s strange how, despite the lyrics being a very sad story about an affair, that sadness seems to vanish when sung with this melody.

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“THE THEME FROM BIG WAVE” Tatsuro Yamashita Bass Cover by Kenpu Harada With Lyrics 1965 Fender Jazz Bass

After immersing himself early in American pop and making it part of his very being, Tatsuro Yamashita went on to lay the foundation of Japanese pop through his legendary band years and subsequent solo career.

This is his all-English summer tune.

How about singing an English song for a change?

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[Cover] Tatsuro Yamashita - Someday

This song is a track included on an album released in 1980.

In that year, Shigeo Nagashima, the Yomiuri Giants’ lifetime honorary manager, resigned, and player Sadaharu Oh retired.

Otsuka Foods’ sports drink became popular.

It was also around this time that “Ihōjin” became a hit.

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Endless Game

This song is included on a single CD released in 1990.

It is the theme song for a TBS-affiliated television drama.

The original work was published in 1989 by The Mainichi Newspapers Co., Ltd.

The author is Mikihiko Renjō, a Naoki Prize–winning writer.

It is available on TBS On Demand.

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Tatsuro Yamashita – Rainy Walk (Subtitulado en español)

These are songs I want to load onto my portable music player and listen to while walking on a rainy day.

Songs with a rain theme tend to be melancholy, but Tatsuro’s songs are different.

There’s also a song called “2,000 Tons of Rain,” and I’d like you to listen to it together in sequence.