Kaoru Sudo -- Rainy Day Hello

 

Well, this article is a continuation of the rainy day theme from Kunio Muramatsu's（村松邦男）"Rainy Day" and it only takes one extra word to complete this Kaoru Sudo（須藤薫）ballad "Rainy Day Hello".

Sudo was known as a singer who loved to give her own renditions of happy-go-lucky 50s/60s girl pop back in the day, but with "Rainy Day Hello", which is a track on her April 1982 3rd album, "Amazing Toys", the arrangement by Masamichi Sugi and Masastaka Matsutoya（杉真理・松任谷正隆）is contemporary pop/AOR balladry aside from a familiar vocal chorus behind her. It's probably not a tune that a freshly brokenhearted person would want to hear (or maybe he/she would😕) but it's a beautifully put-together song by Sugi in terms of words and music about a woman remembering how she met that wonderful man one rainy day only for a lie to bring the world crashing down and un-meeting that man on another rainy day. It's been called one of Sudo's best songs and I can believe it. 

For some of that 50s/60s girl pop sound, try Sudo's track mate on "Amazing Toys", "Namida no Step"（涙のステップ）. And indeed, this will be another Yutaka Kimura Talks song.