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Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Akiko Kobayashi -- Machiwabite(待ちわびて)

 

Singer-songwriter Akiko Kobayashi(小林明子)has had me as a fan for a very long time so getting into "Kayo Kyoku Plus" the way I did, it wasn't too long before I put up a whole ton of posts in the early years of the blog regarding her. Frankly, I thought that I was pretty much done with the Akiko Kobayashi file some years ago.

Luckily though, I spoke perhaps a little too soon. For example, I've rediscovered this single which came out in July 1990 (according to J-Wiki) titled "Machiwabite" (Tired of Waiting). I don't think it ever showed up on any of Kobayashi's original albums although I have heard it before, so I figure that it has appeared as a track on her many BEST compilations. Written by Natsumi Tadano(只野菜摘)with the singer handling the melody, it's a dreamy and wistful song about a very bitter situation in which a woman has finally pulled the plug on hoping for some love reciprocation from a guy who simply doesn't bite. Hopefully, there are other fish in the sea for her.

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  1. One, year in 1991 after this song was released another fish came along and took her to United Kingdom or maybe it was the other way around I am not sure.

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    1. Yes, I heard that she got married to an Indian businessman and the couple has been living somewhere in the UK for years. At one point, she even took on the new stage name of Holi.

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