Yukari Yamamoto -- Komugi Iro no Omoide（小麦色の想い出）

 

Coincidentally enough, a rather certain parallel is popping up here on Tuesday. I just completed an article for a B-side to an aidoru's A-side about an hour ago, and now I'm providing the reverse through this A-side to a B-side for an aidoru whose article I took care of back last year.

Yukari Yamamoto（山本由香利）, in contrast to Seiko Matsuda（松田聖子）, didn't have a very long aidoru career. It lasted between 1975 and 1978 with 6 singles and 1 album under her belt, and then she went into a much longer and more successful time as a thespian.

Last May, I wrote about that B-side, "Mou Sukoshi Jikan wo Kudasai"（もう少し時間を下さい）, and now here in February, I will now complete the circle with her A-side "Komugi Iro no Omoide" (Golden Brown Memories) which was released in September 1975. To be honest, listening to both songs on the opposite sides of the vinyl, I initially thought I'd made a mistake somewhere since the two of them sounded alike. "Komugi Iro no Omoide" has that same wistful arrangement with strings and that harpsichord-sounding instrument which seems to have accompanied every innocent kayo looking for that wistfulness during the 1970s. Not surprisingly, as with "Mou Sukoshi Jikan wo Kudasai", the A-side was created by lyricist Haruo Hayashi（林春生）and composer Masaaki Hirao（平尾昌晃）with Ryo Kawakami（川上了）handling the arrangement.

I think the only thing that brought me out of my momentary existential crisis vis-à-vis the two songs was that "Komugi Iro no Omoide" is the one with the trumpet in the intro. Very nice sentimental tunes if similar.