Ikue Sakakibara -- Kaze wo Mitsumete （風を見つめて）

I actually discovered this one from one of my Twitter feeds for 80s Japanese pop music a couple of days ago. Ikue Sakakibara's（榊原郁恵）14th single, "Kaze wo Mitsumete" (Look at the Wind) from December 1979 sounds more like a summer song than something released closer to Christmas time, but thanks to lyricist/composer Ami Ozaki（尾崎亜美）and arranger Tetsuji Hayashi（林哲司）, and the brilliantly sunny delivery by Ikue-chan herself, beaches and bikinis are more the images that come to mind.