Hiromi Go -- Hachi-gatsu no Etranger（八月のエトランゼ）

 

Well, I just popped the turkey into the oven because we are celebrating Canadian Thanksgiving on this long weekend. Meanwhile, Japan is having its own long weekend due to Sports Day on Monday. Rather ironic since while the Japanese will be taking part in all sorts of athletic activities, we Canadians will be engorging ourselves on pumpkin pie, mashed potatoes and the celebratory bird.

Of course, Canadian Thanksgiving means that the weather is quite a bit cooler now here which may have some of the summer worshippers in a bit of a funk. However, maybe for those of those folks who are reading "Kayo Kyoku Plus", I can provide some solace through this Hiromi Go（郷ひろみ）song. And yeah, that's quite a look for him on the cover of his 51st single "Yakshini"（ヤクシニー）which hit the record store shelves in June 1984.

But it's not "Yakshini" I'm looking at today, but the B-side "Hachi-gatsu no Etranger" (August Stranger). Though the title might sound ominous, the melody and arrangement by Daisuke Inoue（井上大輔） more than makes up for that with a disco/samba celebration underlying Go's familiar nasal vocals. Masao Urino（売野雅勇）provided the lyrics for this dance number that scored a No. 21 ranking on Oricon.