It's been a while since we've had City Pop chanteuse Hitomi Tohyama（当山ひとみ）with us, so it's nice to bring her in to finish up tonight's usual urban contemporary tasting plate.
And interestingly enough, this is one song that's further down her discography timeline since it hails from her November 1989 album "After 5:00 Story". Usually up to this point, I had usually been tackling Penny's songs from the early to the mid 1980s. The track is "Namida no Night Game" (Night Game of Tears) which was written by Mari Kayano*（萱野真理）and composed by Shingo Kobayashi（小林信吾）as this slick and groovy City Pop or soul tune of the late 1980s going into the 1990s. Maybe it's even a J-Quiet Storm number as well. There is also some essence of a sophisticated pop arrangement in there, so of course I'm far from complaining.
*The kanji for the lyricist's family name has several readings according to my usual source, so I'm not sure what the proper one is. If anyone can let me know what the proper reading is, I would be eternally grateful.
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