Well, welcome to February! Amazing how fast January went but that's simply the case for us older folks.
Now, I've fallen for Track 3 which is "Roppongi Lullaby". For those kayo fans in the know, no, it's not the classic one first sung by Yasuko Naito(内藤やす子)in the early 1980s. It's a totally different animal created by Jun Hashimoto and Kyohei Tsutsumi(橋本淳・筒美京平), and has this Latin and old-style kayo combined together in a then-contemporary manner. In fact, Ishida's velvety vocals remind me of her time behind the mike for her most famous song "Blue Light Yokohama"(ブルーライト・ヨコハマ)back in 1968. Not surprisingly, it was both Hashimoto and Tsutsumi who were behind that 60s hit as well.
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