"La La La Love Song" is a song recorded by Japanese R&B singer

Toshinobu Kubota is a Japanese singer, songwriter, musician, music producer, and radio personality. He has produced six million-seller records and thirty-three Top 40 singles during his career. Kubota is currently part of Sony Music Japan. In addition, he has co ...

for his ninth studio album, '' La La La Love Thang'' (1996). The song was written by Kubota and produced by Yoichiro Kakizaki.

Background

The song was credited under the name Toshinobu Kubota with

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. Naomi Campbell met Kubota in New York. The two would eventually work together in a collaboration. The song became the theme song for the Fuji TV drama "

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". In September 1996, the song achieved million purchases and also became Kubota's first number one single on the Oricon singles chart. At week 6, the song achieved the number one spot on the Oricon Weekly Singles chart and remained on the charts for ten weeks. On December 10, 2011, the song charted at number 73 on Billboard Japan's Hot 100 chart.http://www.billboard.com/artist/tos/chart-history/874226?f=848&g=Singles&sort=date#/artist/tos/chart-history/874226?f=848&g=Singles&sort=date It is noted that "La La La Love Song" remains Kubota's signature song.

Music video

In 1996, Kubota shot a music video for the song. The video setting takes place in an empty club whereas Kubota and his band are playing and a waitress is cleaning up. Different video scenes from TV drama "Long Vacation" are used in the music video. The music video was contrasted to black and white, with the exception of video scenes from Long Vacation. It also noted that Naomi Campbell makes no physical appearance in the video.

Track listing

#La La La Love Song (featuring

) #What's The Wonder? #La La La Love Song (Instrumental)

Cover versions

* 2002:

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recorded a Chinese version of the song, named "Long Vacation" (長假) in the album "Oh Lovers" (戀人啊). * 2004:

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+ SOUL'd OUT recorded the song for the Toshinobu Kubota tribute album "Soul Tree: A Musical Tribute to Toshinobu Kubota". The song was also included her

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. * 2004: Laura Fiji~i recorded the song for the "20 Jazz Greatest Hits Song Book" cover album in English. * 2005:

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recorded the song for his extended play "Sometime". * 2007: Karen Gong performed a Malaysian version of the song, titled "Na Na Na Nada Cinta". The song was released on their album "Mulakan". * 2009:

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performed the song in concert, which appears on his concert DVD "DAICHI MIURA LIVE 2009 -Encore of Our Love-". * 2010:

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covered the song, which featured KG, for her album, Kiss. * 2011:

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recorded the song for limited edition cover album for "Tower of Wishes". * 2012:

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recorded the song for her cover album " Covers". * 2012:

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recorded an English version of the song. The song was released on his album "All For You" * 2013:

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recorded the song for her cover album "遊音俱楽部〜1st grade〜". * 2014: Unchain recorded the song for their cover album "Love & Groove Delivery Vol.2". * 2018: K-pop singer and former 15& member Yerin Baek recorded the song in Japanese, which can be heard on her Soundcloud page. * 2022: K-pop singer and NCT member Doyoung recorded the song in Japanese, which can be heard on his instagram @do0_nct.

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References

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