The Mayumi Hara（原真祐美）file on "Kayo Kyoku Plus" has four songs including this one, but the previous two entries are for songs that she wrote up for other singers. So, in actual fact, the last song where she's featured on the byline is the first song that I ever wrote up about her back in September 2017.
That was for "Bye, Bye, September", her third single. Well, this is for her follow-up, "Yuugure wa Love Song" (Twilight is a Love Song) which was released in January 1984. There was quite the heavy-hitting team behind the creation of "Yuugure wa Love Song" with Yoshiko Miura（三浦徳子）providing the lyrics while City Pop maestro Tetsuji Hayashi（林哲司）created the melody with future "Evangelion" music master Shiro Sagisu（鷺巣詩郎）arranging everything. And again, although Hara's vocals were never the strongest, she's uplifted by the bouncy melody. It's not a City Pop tune but Hayashi and Sagisu did make something quite appealing with that wailing guitar in the intro which also sounds like the theme for some 1980s American hourlong TV adventure...well, some of it anyways.
"Yuugure wa Love Song" only made it as high as No. 93 on Oricon. A month after the release of that 4th single, the song was also on Hara's 2nd album "Vert Clair"（ベール・クレール）.
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