TINNA -- Newport Bay

Never heard of this Newport Bay so I decided to follow the twin forks of Google and YouTube. The latter kept throwing out videos of this part of Disneyland Paris but the former informed me that Newport Bay was a body of water surrounded by a relaxing beachside community in southern California. The above video by the way is of a nature preserve in the area.

I think the vision of southern California was indeed the image that the duo TINNA had wanted to convey through their "Newport Bay" which was the B-side to their 1979 single "Shining Sky". Just as breezy as the A-side but perhaps with a bit more of the hustle-and-bustle of a touristy Sunday afternoon in the titular community, the jazzy guitar adds some more to the resort atmosphere described by Tomoko Soryo（惣領智子）and Mariko Takahashi（高橋真理子）. The song was written and composed by Soryo. "Newport Bay" was also a track on TINNA's December 1978 album "Long Distance".

Not sure what Newport Bay was like back in the late 1970s but considering how the song sounds like, it must have been quite appealing back then as well. As well, maybe it and "Long Distance" may have fed into the wanderlust that the Japanese had for all places foreign and exotic, just when the economic boom times were really preparing to go into high gear.