Jidai (Miyuki Nakajima song) explained

Jidai
Type:single
Artist:Miyuki Nakajima
Album:Watashi no Koe ga Kikoemasuka
B-Side:Kizutsuita Tsubasa
Released:December 21, 1975
Genre:New Music
Length:9:08
Label:Canyon
Prev Title:Azami Jō no Lullaby
Prev Year:1975
Next Title:Konbanwa
Next Year:1976

is a 1975 song by Miyuki Nakajima. She redubbed it in 1993 for her album . A popular cover was also released by Hiroko Yakushimaru in 1988. Hayley Westenra translated it and sung it in Hayley Sings Japanese Songs in 2008. An instrumental version was used in the opening credits of Leiji Matsumoto's series Cosmo Warrior Zero.

It won the grand prize at the World Popular Song Festival in November 1975.[1] It was released as a single in December 1975 and sold over 2 million copies.[2] In 2007 it was included in the Nihon no Uta Hyakusen.

Notes and References

  1. The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music. v. 1, p. 4991.
  2. 富澤一誠『フォーク名曲事典300曲〜「バラが咲いた」から「悪女」まで誕生秘話〜』ヤマハミュージックメディア、2007年、361頁。