先日，ユースケ・サンタマリアさん出演のドラマについて書いた記事の中で，以前放送されていた「桑田佳祐の音楽寅さん」という番組についてふれました。桑田さんらしい，ちょっとブラックなユーモア全開のこの番組は，斬新な切り口で様々なジャンルの音楽を紹介しつつ，桑田さん自身の楽曲も楽しませてくれるものでした。2000年に始まった第１期については，悔しいことに全く見ていないのですが，2009年からの第２期は，初回から欠かさず視聴しただけでは飽き足らず，ＤＶＤまで購入して堪能しました。
The other day, I mentioned a series of TV programs, which was broadcast several years ago, called “Kuwata Keisuke no Ongaku Torasan” in an article I wrote in this blog. With Kuwata’s characteristically sarcastic humor, this TV program introduced various kind of music to the audience in an original style and sometimes entertained us with some songs by Kuwata himself. I didn’t watch, unfortunately, the first season which started in 2000 at all, but I intently watched the second season started in 2009. Actually, I couldn’t get enough of it so I bought the DVD to enjoy it as much as I wanted.
この第２期の初回は，桑田佳祐の追悼番組という設定で放送され，苦情の電話が殺到したという逸話があります。心に残った回としては，桑田さん扮するラーメン店主が客との会話をきっかけに何かと歌い出し，客も関係ない人も勝手に踊り出す「『フォーク軒』でフォークソング特集」や，冴えないサラリーマンに扮した桑田さんが，小雪さん扮する銀座のバーのママに恋をする「恋の花咲く銀座スペシャル」などがあります。
The first program in the series assumed a faked memorial one for Kuwata and ended up receiving tremendous complaints. There are some programs that remained in my mind such as “Featuring folk songs in ’Folk Song Ramen Shop’” in which Kuwata playing a ramen-shop-owner wouldn’t fail to get a chance to sing songs while talking to customers and all the people tried to dance to them, or “Ginza Special where flowers of love in full bloom” in which Kuwata fell in love with a Hostess played by Koyuki in a bar in Ginza, and so on.
実は，２１回まであったこの第２期の中で，唯一，ＤＶＤに収録されなかった回があります。それは，第３回「空耳アビーロード」です。あまりにも衝撃的なこの回は，当時の政治・経済について揶揄する歌詞を，ビートルズの「アビーロード」の曲に載せて歌っていくというものでした。そのソラミミの完成度の高さと歌詞の辛辣さはハンパなく，こんなヤバイものを放送して本当に大丈夫なのかと心配しながら，ワクワクが止まりませんでした。
スリル満点で，自由度ハンパないこの番組を，またやってほしいです。
In fact, there was a program which wasn’t included in the DVD solely among twenty-one programs of the second season. The program was the third one titled “Soramimi Abbey Road”. That was really a shocking one because it featured a recital of Kuwata and he sang songs from the album “Abbey Road” by the Beatles with his original lyrics which was so sarcastic about political and financial conditions of Japan at that time. The lyrics sounds so similar to original ones as if it really were but actually not at all, and the lyrics were so bitter that I was not only worried about whether they are really all right to air such a controversial one but I can’t help feeling exhilarated so much.
I really want them to restart this TV programs which made us feel thrilled and was perfectly free sometime in the future.
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