Well, yesterday's meteorological maelstrom is happily yesterday's matter. It's nice and sunny today although I would still be hard-pressed to call it spring. Still, maybe we can still bring some smiles here.
Or perhaps we can bring one hundred million of them. Yup, I've got Noriko Sakai's（酒井法子）bouncy 6th single, "Ichi Oku no Smile" (One Hundred Million Smiles) from May 1988. Nori-P always had a gleaming and attractive grin so I can say that she possessed a one hundred million-watt smile of her own, and the song itself rather reflects a very happy frame of mind. Lyrics were by Hiromi Mori（森浩美）with arrangements by Motoki Funayama（船山基紀）. ASKA of Chage & Aska fame was responsible for this very cheery melody which doesn't sound the type of music that he would come up with, and indeed, it's a very aidoru tune.
The song rang a bell with me and since I don't have any Nori-P albums...just a couple of singles from the 1990s...I think that I probably heard "Ichi Oku no Smile" on one of the old music ranking programs. What surprised me was that this was her biggest-selling single by reaching No. 2 on the Oricon weeklies, so none of her singles ever hit the top spot. "Ichi Oku no Smile" was also used for a Ban deodorant commercial (probably starring Sakai) and it first appeared on an album via her "LOVELY TIMES / NORIKO Part III" which was released in August 1988; it hit No. 8 on the charts.
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