Also within that string was her 9th single "Aki no Indication" (Autumn Indication) from September 1987 which I had never heard before. Written by Eiko Kyo(許瑛子)and composed by Mitsuo Hagita(萩田光雄), that melody was the thing that hooked me since it sounded rather exotic for a lack of a better word. But then again, I have said that a number of the aidoru tunes from the late 1980s went farther afield in terms of their music; I guess that aidoru-dom was following in the footsteps of some of that exotic kayo which had been released a decade earlier.
The song sounds as if it took a bit of European into itself. And according to the J-Wiki article, Nanno herself had been interested in a 1960s song by Italian pop singer Wilma Goich titled "In un fiore" (In A Flower), so I gather that Hagita was inspired by some of that melody to create "Aki no Indication". As mentioned, it did hit No. 1 on Oricon and became the 33rd-ranked single of 1987. It was also used as the commercial song for the Cecil chocolate bar from Glico. Nothing says fall more than a piece of milk chocolate, apparently.
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