Chiyono Yoshino -- Driving in the Rain

 

Although I didn't intend to do this, it looks like that I'm continuing the lyrical theme of rain today after writing about Hachiro Kasuga's（春日八郎）"An Tokya Doshaburi"（あん時ゃどしゃ降り）yesterday which was all about making that fateful encounter during a downpour.

But this being Friday which usually means the more urban contemporary of music on "Kayo Kyoku Plus", I've got something City Pop to offer here. "Driving in the Rain", sung by Chiyono Yoshino（吉野千代乃）, is the first of her songs on the blog that I've put up to come from the 1990s after my first entries about her ranged within the latter half of the 1980s.

The song hails from her March 1992 6th album "Journey to Love", and it's another Tetsuji Hayashi（林哲司）concoction with a hint of New Jack Swing, 60s soul and AOR mixed in with the rest of the decade's version of City Pop. Lyrics are by Chisa Tanabe（田辺智沙）who has been a lyricist and a composer although her current occupation is being a lawyer according to her J-Wiki profile. From what I've read in those lyrics, it looks like the healing power of rain is helping out a couple in a car who may have had a tiff in the hours and minutes before getting on that drive. I just hope that they are driving to conditions.