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Chiisa na Koro Kara

Single Cover
Artist
JUDY AND MARY
Single
Chiisa na Koro Kara (小さな頃から; Since I Was Little)
Released
1995.02.01
Catalogue Number
ESDB-3550
Price
¥816
Tracklist
  1. Chiisa na Koro Kara (小さな頃から)
  2. Jitensha (自転車; Bicycle)


Information

"Chiisa na Koro Kara" is the sixth single released by JUDY AND MARY. The title track was used as theme song to the film Shimusonzu and it was used ending theme song to the Fuji TV series Rooms. The B-side, "Jitensha" was used as the theme song for the Meiji Seika Poifull Gumibinzu CM. This single is an album cut single from the band's second studio album, Orange Sunshine, which was released two months prior. The B-side " Jitensha" is also from the album. The single reached #37 on the weekly Oricon chart and stayed on the chart for a total of five weeks, selling 39,280 copies.

Song Information

Lyrics
YUKI
Music
Onda Yoshihito
Other Information
Arrangement: JUDY AND MARY
Mixing: Tom Durack
Production: Samkuma Masahide & JUDY AND MARY
Mastering: Mitsukazu Tanaka at Sony Music Shinanomachi Studio
Recording: Kiso Toshiyasu, Abe Mitsuyasu, Kohno Hideyuki
Assistance: Kaizawa Tsuyoshi, Igarashi Kenji, Takahashi Naoya, Ibuchi Masayoshi

Music video

A shot from the video

The music video for "Chiisa na Koro Kara" starts out in greyscale with YUKI walking down the street. After the color kicks in it shows the other members quickly and then the video returns to scenes of YUKI near a bus station. The video goes on to show the band members walking around the city. The video then switches to the band playing in a park, with YUKI laying on rocks, while she sings.

The music video is found on the HYPER 90'S JAM TV video as chapter #3 and on JUDY AND MARY ALL CLIPS -JAM COMPLETE VIDEO COLLECTION- on the ALL CLIPS portion as chapter #6.

Disambiguation

There are currently three version of "Chiisa na Koro Kara" to be found in JUDY AND MARY's discography.

Chiisa na Koro Kara
Found on the band's second studio album Orange Sunshine as #6, and on the "Chiisa na Koro Kara" single as track #1. The song was later placed on the best-of albums: The Great Escape -COMPLETE BEST- as track #6 on disc2 and on FRESH as track #6.
Chiisa na Koro Kara (Instrumental)
Found on the Works of JUDY AND MARY album as track #6. This is an instrumental version of the song without the vocals.
Chiisa na Koro Kara
Found on the WARP TOUR FINAL video as chapter #8 on disc1. This is the live version recorded at the band's final show at the Tokyo Dome on March 8th 2001.

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