Yumi Seino -- Wet Morning（ウェット・モーニング）

 

The last time I wrote about Yumi Seino（清野由美）was back in the summer of 2018 when I posted her snazzy Bacharach-esque "Gin no Koibito"（銀の恋人）. This happened to be the B-side to her 1982 single "Wet Morning".

Well, I finally encountered the A-side not too long ago, and it's also a winner though different in tone and style. "Wet Morning" was written by Mirai Minegishi（嶺岸未来）and composed by Yoichi Takizawa（滝沢洋一）as more contemplative City Pop; this is a tune that could have easily been covered by pop balladeers of the time such as Ruiko Kurahashi（倉橋ルイ子）. It's got that wailing electric guitar and those juicy chords at the beginning to have me all nostalgic for the music of the 1980s in Japan.