"Baby I Love You" from 'Zone'

Written and Recorded in 1991

This tune was written for a project of students’ theatrical performance called Zone, to which I was deeply involved during the autumn of 1991. In its initial phase, we started off with gathering random ideas for the project and I wrote some original tunes in accordance with the basic scheme provided by the director, who was my close friend at that time and this tune was one of them. Ideas I gave for the performance included to play a medley of songs written by me and other various performers in a form of operetta and at that stage, I supposed this tune to be the climax of the operetta, performed by a band of boys all dressed in female clothes. As the scheme progressed later, the director dismissed the idea of the operetta but took up the idea of clothing and he gave me a role of the singer for playing this tune as the climax of the entire show.

Footage of this video was taken from the actual performance that took place in December 1991. As you can see, we all dressed in female clothes with make-ups on – actually, the drummer was genuinely a girl though – and it is me who’s playing the role of singer. By that time, I wrote a provisional lyric for the tune and called it Baby I Love You, which was a typical but suitable crappy thing for a Rock’N’Roll tune like this. Unfortunately (or rather, fortunately), the audio track of the original videotape was too horrible to be presented here and my singing part was almost inaudible.

For making this video, I mainly used the original demo recording I made by myself to replace the horrible audio track of the filmed performance. I also used a couple of brief sections of another recording performed by the band in the footage; the bridging section written in the time signature 3/4 in the middle and the finishing off section, in order to make them heard a bit.