After reading her entry on "Japanese City Pop", I took the plunge and bought her 1982 album, "LIGHT'N UP". And the second track, "Hoho ni Yoru no Akari"(The Light of the Night on Your Cheek), was pure City Pop heaven. The critic in "JCP"remarked that the album was worth getting for this song alone. And he is right. It is a tune to be played in the car stereo while driving on the highway at night...with that special someone. The horns are SO mellow and then David Sanborn comes in with his sax solo. It's gotten a lot of play on my stereo since I got it.
I've been a fan of Japanese popular music for 40 years, and have managed to collect a lot of material during that time. So I decided I wanted to talk about Showa Era music with like-minded fans. My particular era is the 70s and 80s (thus the "kayo kyoku"). The plus part includes a number of songs and artists from the last 30 years and also the early kayo. So, let's talk about New Music, aidoru, City Pop and enka.
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I would like to give credit where credit is due. Videos are from YouTube and other sources such as NicoNico while Oricon rankings and other information are translated from the Japanese Wikipedia unless noted.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Minako Yoshida -- Hoho ni Yoru no Akari (頬に夜の灯)
After reading her entry on "Japanese City Pop", I took the plunge and bought her 1982 album, "LIGHT'N UP". And the second track, "Hoho ni Yoru no Akari"(The Light of the Night on Your Cheek), was pure City Pop heaven. The critic in "JCP"remarked that the album was worth getting for this song alone. And he is right. It is a tune to be played in the car stereo while driving on the highway at night...with that special someone. The horns are SO mellow and then David Sanborn comes in with his sax solo. It's gotten a lot of play on my stereo since I got it.
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please, would you be so kind to upload "light'n up"! it's impossible to find and i've been looking for it forever...
ReplyDeletehello! is there any chance you'd be willing to upload a cd rip of this? this album is near impossible to find, i heard it in japan ages and ages ago and haven't been able to find it...
ReplyDeleteHi, guys and thanks for the comments. Yup, "LIGHT'N UP"is indeed a fine album. Unfortunately, although I would be happy to share, I've been doing this blog from my eccentric Netbook, so there is no CD slot for me to rip it onto the hard drive.
ReplyDeleteBut I came across Amazon.jp which apparently has 5 used copies of it for sale at about 1700 yen.
I'll write about the album itself tonight and see if there's anyone out there who reads this who also has the album.