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"Echo Beach" is a song recorded by the Canadian group Martha and the Muffins in 1979. It was released as a single from their album ''Metro Music'' in 1980 and won the Juno Award for Single of the Year. It was certified gold in Canada on October 1, 1980, a month after ''Metro Music'' achieved gold status.〔Music Canada, Gold Platinum Database. http://www.musiccanada.com/GPSearchResult.aspx?st=&ica=False&sa=Martha%20and%20the%20Muffins&sl=&smt=0&sat=-1&ssb=Artist〕 "Echo Beach" was the band's only significant international hit, although they had several other hits in Canada. It reached No. 10 on the UK Singles Chart and No. 6 on the Australian Singles Chart (Kent Music Report). In 2003, ''Q'' magazine listed it among the 1001 best songs ever. In 2005, "Echo Beach" was named the 35th greatest Canadian song of all time on the CBC Radio One series ''50 Tracks: The Canadian Version''. ==Background== Echo Beach, as mentioned in the song, does not refer to a real beach but is rather a symbolic notion of somewhere the narrator would rather be, somewhere 'far away in time'. In reality, the song was created while Gane was working checking wallpaper for printing faults. He found the work rather dull and his mind drifted to times he would like to live over again. One such time was an evening spent at Sunnyside Beach on the shoreline of Lake Ontario in Toronto in summer. In 1977, ''Echo Beach'' was a reference made to a faded time and place gone in the lyrics of the song "Hiroshima Mon Amour" by the band Ultravox. "Echo Beach" was only the third song that Gane had written. The map shown on the cover of one version of the single is of the Toronto Islands, while another is of Chesil Beach in Dorset, England. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Echo Beach」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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