One of those lovely rarest of the rare discoveries, it's not all that easy to track down a Yumi Seino（清野由美）album and perhaps it's even harder to find a song that only made it onto a 7" single by her as a B-side.
"Gin no Koibito" (Silver Lover) was on the flip side of Seino's 1982 single "Wet Morning"（ウェット・モーニング）, and it's quite irresistible to me. I couldn't find out who wrote and composed the song but it's got a great horn section and a City Pop/J-AOR arrangement that reminds me of those high-flying 1980s and Burt Bacharach. I'm not sure if "Gin no Koibito" had ever been used as a jingle for a commercial or as a theme song for a radio program, but it would have made for some fine musical backup for any sort of scene. Keep on browsing through YouTube for those hidden gems.
January 19 2022: Thanks to Ace below, those songwriters are lyricist Ayumi Date（伊達歩）and composer Keitaro Miho（三保敬太郎）.
I was able to find a photo of the single's liner notes and it looks like Ayumi Date handled the lyrics for this one while Keitaro Miho did the music and arrangement.
ReplyDeleteThanks very much, Ace. As you can see, I've made the revision above.
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