Keikyu "ekimelo"

[Nick_Burman]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19FovOCASMU

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWPJY6itVcU

 

 

A sample of Keikyu station departure melodies, both northbound and southbound. I find the northbound melodies better than the southbound ones. I wonder if Keikyu has a CD for sale - some of the tunes are very catchy!

 

 

Cheers NB

[bikkuri bahn]

There is a CD

[ToniBabelony]

Keikyu largely took pop songs and transformed well known parts into simplified station melodies. It's a very good (though expensive) strategy to make stations recognisable and fun for their customers.

[Sacto1985]

Keikyu largely took pop songs and transformed well known parts into simplified station melodies. It's a very good (though expensive) strategy to make stations recognisable and fun for their customers.

 

That is unless Keikyu cut a deal with JASRAC (Japan's equivalent of ASCAP and BMI in the USA) to get copyright for those station melodies at a much-reduced cost.

[ToniBabelony]

That is unless Keikyu cut a deal with JASRAC (Japan's equivalent of ASCAP and BMI in the USA) to get copyright for those station melodies at a much-reduced cost.

 

Oh that is certainly a lot cheaper than direct purchase from the record company! Interesting knowledge for my future empire...

[bikkuri bahn]

Often it's the case where the song is used for a station serving the neighborhood where the (famous) singer of said song lived/grew up, or a theme song for a popular program which happened to have the production office in that neighborhood- in these cases, the railway would be cooperating with the artists or companies directly, for mutual economic benefit.

[miyakoji]

The first tune in the outbound collection is Quruli's Akai Densha. The music video for the song is just a front-view recording of the line. The band is originally from Kyoto though, I think.