Yoko Takahashi -- Goodbye Day

This is a follow-up to an August 2012 article I wrote up for the venerable 1981 ballad "Goodbye Day" by Takao Kisugi（来生たかお）. As I mentioned there and then, it's been covered by a number of singers since then and the uploader for the following video has given a list of some of those people.

One of those singers happens to be Yoko Takahashi（高橋洋子）who has become immortalized for her performance of a certain anison that has reached legendary proportions since she first recorded it in the late 1990s. "Goodbye Day", which was written and composed by Kisugi and his sister Etsuko（来生えつこ）, is given the ever-appealing bossa jazz treatment this time by Takahashi through her first album of covers of anison and movie themes from the last century, "20th century Boys & Girls"（20世紀少年少女）from June 2010.

Takahashi takes her vocals down to a near-whisper with her cover of "Goodbye Day" as she entertains and caresses the listeners with her version of a Japanese pop classic. I'm hoping that folks like Henry Mancini and Nelson Riddle are looking down from above with some approval.