A-side "Mamotte Agetai" Format single, CD single Writer(s) Yumi Matsutoya | B-side "Grace Slick no Shōzō" Label Express | |
Released June 21, 1981 (1981-06-21) | ||
"Mamotte Agetai" (守ってあげたい, "I Want to Protect You") is a song by Japanese singer-songwriter Yumi Matsutoya and is contained in her studio album "Sakuban Oaishimasho". The song was released as her 17th single on June 21, 1981 from Toshiba EMI and sold over 695,000 copies. It was re-released as a CD single on June 28, 1989.
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Overview
Matsutoya was given the offer to write the theme song for the movie "Nerawareta Gakuen" and she wrote "Mamotte Agetai". The song was used as various TV dramas's the theme songs and CF songs afterwards. Grace Slick appearing in the title of the B-side "Grace Slick no Shōzō" (グレイス・スリックの肖像, "Portrait of Grace Slick") is Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane.
Vinyl record
All tracks written by Yumi Matsutoya, all music arranged by Masataka Matsutoya.