Hiromi Go -- Lonely Night

 

Perfect for tonight, I bring you another track from one of Hiromi Go's（郷ひろみ）City Pop releases, "Super Drive" from December 1979. Up to now, nikala and I have introduced "Irie Nite" (入江にて), "My Lady"（マイレディー）and "Feel Like Goin' Home" from this album, and this time around, it's "Lonely Night".

The final track on "Super Drive", it's a quiet pull-out-all-the-stops sort of song to finish the record as the young Go basically sounds like one big sultry come-on via a slow urban strut that feels as if it had been created by the duo Airplay (David Foster & Jay Graydon). But it was actually lyricist Machiko Ryu（竜真知子）and composer/arranger Mitsuo Hagita（萩田光雄）who were responsible with The 24th Street Band interpreting the score . I wouldn't doubt it if Go's crooning performance had a lot of fans hot and bothered here while those disco strings were going absolutely loopy near the end.

I really have got to get my own copy of "Super Drive" someday.