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Friday, April 16, 2021

Kimiko Kasai -- Nailed in the Pocket

 

As one commenter put it on YouTube, I can't quite hear the lyrics by Denise Routt for Kimiko Kasai's(笠井紀美子)"Nailed in the Pocket" but I can't deny the cool slow groove of her music. 

A track on Kasai's 1984 "Love Talk", an album that I would love to get someday on the shelf, "Nailed in the Pocket" is simply mellowness put to music. I'm not sure whether Routt had any connection with Quincy Jones but the song sounds like it would have belonged quite snugly on his 1981 "The Dude" album. And wouldn't it have been something if Kasai herself got to sing on that classic? Not exactly certain about what the title is all about but I got a feeling that it's really pertaining to any financial ailments.

"Nailed in the Pocket" also shares album space with another popular Kasai number, "Mmm Mmm Good". Kasai may have been a jazz singer but her 80s soul period was indeed something else.

2 comments:

  1. lyrics:
    let your godshots be your guide
    careful who that you confide in
    cause the preacher's in the right
    and the edhb is tdjf (can't make out)

    don't you know? don't you know, baby
    our love just took off like a rocket
    you know this love is a nail in the pocket with you
    well now, baby
    our love just took off like a rocket
    you know this love is a nail in the pocket with you

    some remorse that I don't share
    I don't give love without reason
    this how you handle me with care
    and the oceans are so busy

    now remember why we're first to take the chance*
    to start into a new romance
    that heart keeps burning on and on and on
    and oh don't you know, baby

    our love just took off like a rocket~
    you know this love is a nail in the pocket with you
    well now, baby

    our love just took off like a rocket-
    you know this love is a nail in the pocket with you

    (x1 *) (x2 ~) (x7 -)

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