Yukiko Ehara -- Kokoro no Mama ni（心のままに）

It's been interesting getting to know the earliest times for the former vocalist of the pop band Fairchild and current TV personality known as YOU. I first only got to know about her from those Suntory commercials while one of Fairchild's songs was playing in the background, and it would be many years down the line before I realized that she had been an aidoru in the mid-1980s.

From the material that I've heard performed by Yukiko Ehara（江原由希子）, the future YOU seemed to have been groomed to take on somewhat more classier or ethereal material. Her second single from August 1985, "Kokoro no Mama ni" (As It Is) is along those lines as it skirts with the mellower side of sophisticated pop. I could even hear an AOR riff and even hints of Omega Tribe in there.

And yet, neither Chinfa Kan（康珍化）nor Tetsuji Hayashi（林哲司）had anything to do with the creation of "Kokoro no Mama ni". It was actually 70s folk singer Shozo Ise（伊勢正三）who concocted this dreamier form of 80s aidoru. I have to say that I really like the keyboards in there.