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"Roman Hikō"
Single by Kome Kome Club
from the album Komeguny
ReleasedApril 8, 1990 (1990-04-08)
GenrePop, pop rock
Length4:08
Songwriter(s)Kome Kome Club
Producer(s)Kome Kome Club
Kome Kome Club singles chronology
"'Funk Fujiyama'"
(1989)
"Roman Hikō"
(1990)
"'Shake Hip!'"
(1990)

"Roman Hikō" (浪漫飛行, lit. "Romantic Flight") is a Japanese song by Kome Kome Club released on April 8, 1990. It was included in their 1987 album Komeguny. Japan Airlines adopted the song for their television advertisement. 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."[1] In 2007, Kome Kome Club released the remix version of the song in their album komedia.jp.

Cover versions

On April 23, 2003, Psycho le Cemu 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 (duo) released a cover for their album "80s/90s J-POP REVIVAL", and released it as part of the double single "卒業 / 浪漫飛行".

References

  1. ^ "1990年 シングル年間TOP100" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2016-08-16. Retrieved 2008-08-03.