Ayumi Ishida -- Kyo kara Anata to（今日からあなたと）

The last time I wrote about singer-actress Ayumi Ishida（いしだあゆみ）was around a year ago when the article was on one of her more City Pop-oriented songs in 1977, "Roppongi Lullaby"（六本木ララバイ）, in cooperation with Tin Pan Alley and her two tried-and-true songwriters, Jun Hashimoto and Kyohei Tsutsumi（橋本淳・筒美京平）.

Well, that relationship among Ishida, Hashimoto and Tsutsumi can go all the way back to the late 1960s with that breakthrough hit, "Blue Light Yokohama"（ブルーライトヨコハマ）. Several months after that release, the three of them worked together again on "Kyo kara Anata to" (From Today With You), which is a story of a woman happily in a relationship with the guy of her dreams.

Some similar sounds to "Blue Light Yokohama" here as well with those thumping drums, silky strings and of course Ishida's plaintive vocals. I think the only thing missing is the horns. "Kyo kara Anata to" didn't hit the top spot like "Blue Light Yokohama" did but it didn't too shabbily either as it went into the Top 10 to peak at No. 7.

I can easily see why she was quite the popular young lass about town.