Haruko Kuwana with Baker's Shop -- Vanishing Point

 

I might never figure out the configuration of Haruko Kuwana's（桑名晴子）identification vis-à-vis her early singles. Initially, I had thought she and her band Baker's Shop first got together in 1980 to come up with the album "Hot Line", but then I saw the thumbnail for the above video which has "Vanishing Point", a single from November 1978. On that single cover, it has Haruko Kuwana with Baker's Shop although "Hot Line" had Baker's Shop with Haruko. Finally, J-Wiki lists the singer's 3rd single just under her name only.

But I'm just haggling over semantics or something here. "Vanishing Point" is a cool if lonely song about sudden heartbreak with a more hushed Kuwana. Still, even a more hushed Kuwana provides plenty of sultry sex appeal, and the music and arrangement by Akira Inoue（井上鑑）possesses its good share of strutting down Shinjuku, Roppongi or Akasaka. Kohei Oikawa（及川恒平）wrote the lyrics here.

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Enjoy her live performances as well. And sorry...my English teacher may be showing here but I think her pronunciation of the title is quite a bit better in performance than on the recorded version. Haruko's a tiger on the stage!😁