Soulful singer Kiyomi Suzuki（鈴木聖美）has been known to me as someone who has been involved in that classic urban contemporary duet with her brother Masayuki Suzuki（鈴木雅之）, "Taxi". Plus, I discovered that she had her own dip into Japanese pop culture franchises such as "City Hunter" with her ballad "Give Me Your Love Tonight".
However, even before those two songs, Suzuki had been involved with another such franchise, that being the cops and robbers series "Abunai Deka"（あぶない刑事）. The show has always had its share of R&B-inflected tunes and Suzuki provided "Wait and See (Love Song)" as her contribution to the show's soundtrack from November 1986. Linda Hennrick wrote the English lyrics for Suzuki while Takashi Shoji（小路隆）composed the melody that Hiroshi Shinkawa（新川博）arranged. Especially with that saxophone in there, I couldn't help but feel that there was some kinship between "Wait and See" and the love theme from "St. Elmo's Fire" by David Foster.
The producers really must have loved the song since there are two more versions on the soundtrack: the strings version and the instrumental version.
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