Yuko Tomita -- Midori no Kazoku no Go-Shoutai（緑の家族のご招待）

 

Yuko Tomita（とみたゆう子）is someone that had her singing career mostly in the 1980s going into the early 1990s. Her material wavered among the pop, City Pop and technopop spheres of influence so generally I thought of her as hovering over and around the urban contemporary.

However as an 18-year-old, her singing career began with the December 1979 single "Midori no Kazoku no Go-Shoutai" (Invitation from the Green Family). Judging from that cover of the young Tomita sitting in some outdoor café with a drink and what I feel is an adorably 1970s kayo arrangement, though, I thought that the lass had been training to become an aidoru. Another revelation is that the words and music about a really friendly family of plants were provided by folk singer Iruka（イルカ）for which I went "Ah, naruhodo..." because I remember a similarly whimsical song which had been created and performed by the singer-songwriter, "Sarada no Kuni kara Kita Musume"（サラダの国から来た娘）the previous year.