Yoshimi Iwasaki -- Congratulation

Discovered this one on a City Pop compilation in the last hour or so, and then was lucky enough to find a lone video for this very song.

Rocket Brown from Come Along Radio and I have already spoken on the one trope of not basing one's love for a singer on a single amazing hit (namely Mariya's "Plastic Love"), and I think that it sorta fits here as well. All these years, I've only known Yoshimi Iwasaki（岩崎良美）for that big 1980s hit "Touch"（タッチ）, and it's only been within the last several years, namely the years that I've been doing the blog, that I've realized that Hiromi's（岩崎宏美）younger sister wasn't just stuck on 50s-ish pop tunes but had been recording mellow City Pop/J-AOR songs nearly right from her debut.

Case in point: "Congratulation" from her September 1984 album "Wardrobe". Slight typo aside, this is one very desirable track thanks to that fine pairing of lyricist Chinfa Kan（康珍化）and composer Tetsuji Hayashi（林哲司）who know more than a thing or two about the urban contemporary. Kan weaves a story about a woman at a friend's wedding party where she sees someone she's had feelings for but hasn't seen since their college days. What could happen? Dunno...but apparently she's waiting poolside to get him alone.