The weather here in Toronto today is nothing like that shown above with the El Cid Hotel in Mexico. It was 0 degrees Celsius with a -7-degree wind chill and areas a few hours north of my city are supposed to be getting their first dumping of snow over the weekend. On the penultimate day of this November, it's really feeling like a little bit of Christmas.
I'd been more of a night person than a morning person but at my wizening age, I no longer consider myself someone who's really all that chipper at any particular time of the day. However, it seems as if seiyuu and singer Mitsuko Horie（堀江美都子）might have been more of the latter. The last time I wrote about her was back in June 2023 when I posted her "Morning Rain", a pleasant City Pop concoction from her December 1981 mini-album "Micchi no Hitorigoto Club"（ミッチの独言倶楽部）.
Earlier in the year though, Horie released her 4th single in June, "Pure Morning". I guess she really had a thing for the AM hours. Written by Machiko Ryu（竜真知子）and composed by Koji Makaino（馬飼野康二）, "Pure Morning" has more of a calming mixture of down-home City Pop and the ol' kayo kyoku thanks to that orchestra backing her up although there is some of that groove of the former genre. It almost sounds like something that Hiromi Iwasaki（岩崎宏美）would have tackled at the same time. The same song headlined her 2nd original album "Image" which was released a couple of months later and ended up as high as No. 54 on Oricon.
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