Number: 007
Lyricist: Takashi Matsumoto
Composer: Eiichi Ohtaki
Arranger: Eiichi Ohtaki
From his 1981 album: "A Long Vacation"
Found within an excellent album that needs no explanation, "Ame no Wednesday" (Rainy Wednesday) is a stylish* ballad that stands out for its simple band sound from the lineup of Tatsuo Hayashi（林立夫）, Haruomi Hosono（細野晴臣）and Shigeru Suzuki（鈴木茂）. The interweaving of Ohtaki's（大滝詠一）unpretentious melody and Matsumoto's（松本隆）superb depiction of a scene is just like something out of the movies. Anyone who likes this song must have their own Volkswagen, a sea and that special someone.
*The word "stylish" is something that I came up with after seeing the original word of sumire iro（菫色）to describe the ballad. It literally translates as "violet" which had question marks popping up around my head. My usual dictionaries didn't go beyond the literal translation but going to a Japanese site regarding colours, I found out that the colour has been associated with haikara（ハイカラ）or "high collar" meaning "stylish" or "fashionable".
The above comes from "Disc Collection Japanese City Pop Revised" (2020).
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