Roman Hikō | |
Type: | single |
Artist: | Kome Kome Club |
Album: | Komeguny |
Genre: | Pop, pop rock |
Length: | 4:08 |
Producer: | Kome Kome Club |
Prev Title: | 'Funk Fujiyama' |
Prev Year: | 1989 |
Next Title: | 'Shake Hip!' |
Next Year: | 1990 |
is a Japanese song by Kome Kome Club released on April 8, 1990. It was included in their 1987 album Komeguny. Originally conceptualized as a song for a hypothetical airline commercial, the hypothetical became reality in 1990 as Japan Airlines adopted the song for their television advertisement.[1] It peaked at number one on the Oricon chart. In the Oricon yearly chart of 1990, it became the second best-selling song in Japan behind "Odoru Pompokolin."[2] In 2007, Kome Kome Club released the remix version of the song in their album komedia.jp.
On April 23, 2003, Psycho le Cému released a cover of this song.
In 2010, hip-hop unit Halcali also covered the song, reworking it into a tropical ska tune. The song was also the image theme song for Sony's Cyber-shot camera. In the same year, Debbie Gibson covered it in English in her Japan-only album Ms. Vocalist.
In 2017, duo FEMM released a cover for their album "80s/90s J-POP REVIVAL", and released it as part of the double single "Sotsugyō / Roman Hikō" (卒業 / 浪漫飛行).
On August 9, 2023, a tribute album dedicated to the song was released, featuring reinterpretations of the song by artists including Gospellers, Shoko Nakagawa, Razor Ramon RG, Houshou Marine, Anly, and Yusuke.[3]