Summer of Goodbye / Mieko Kenjo

Once upon a time, there was a morning information program that aired on the TBS network every Monday through Friday from 1975 to 1980 called“Ohayo 720 (Seven-Two-Oh)”.
The songs used in the program's popular segment“Caravan”,Olivia Newton-John's“Take Me Home, Country Roads”,Daniel Boone's“Beautiful Sunday”were released as singles due to their immense popularity and became huge hits.

Perhaps aiming to repeat that success, the program's popular female caster, Kenken, also known as Mieko Kenjo, released a single.
Here it is.“Sayonara no Natsu” (Summer of Goodbye).

“Take Me Home, Country Roads”and“Beautiful Sunday”might be well-known, but there probably aren't many people who know this“Sayonara no Natsu”.
I happened to know it because I was able to air-check it when it played on an FM program.

By the way, this song is credited as: Lyrics by Whittaker, Music by Webster, Arranged byShinichi Tanabe.
Surprisingly, the trick behind this song is that it was a cover of a Western song.
And here is the original version.

Roger Whittaker's“The Last Farewell”is the song.
And, wow, I didn't know he had covered it too.

Whoa, as expected of Elvis! So cool!
The chord progression is very elaborate. This is a song that seems worth trying to transcribe by ear.

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