Kaoru Sudo -- Omoide no School Love（思い出のスクール・ラブ）

 

Forgive me for some Sunday night silly whimsy here as far as "Kayo Kyoku Plus" is concerned, but actually, I have mentioned this in a past recent article. There has been a pitched battle among our three years in the Labels to become the year with the most article entries: 1981, 1982 and 1983. With the addition of this 1981 song, we'll have a tie for second place with both 1981 and 1983 with 464 articles each and then 1982 with a slim lead of 465. Where will this lead to? Enquiring minds want to know.

But I digress. In the last few articles for the late and dearly missed singer Kaoru Sudo（須藤薫）, I've covered a couple of her albums but this time around, I'll just be handling one song here. "Omoide no School Love" (School Love of My Memories) is the first track on her second album "Paradise Tour" (July 1981) which was written by Ayumi Date（伊達歩）, composed by Masamichi Sugi（杉真理）and arranged by Masataka Matsutoya（松任谷正隆）. 

I've come up with another angle when it comes to the spirited music of Sudo especially listening to the genki "Omoide no School Love". The singer and the song seem to combine the 1950s/1960s girl pop of Mariya Takeuchi（竹内まりや）back around the same time and the happy-go-lucky projecting voice of EPO along with the arrangement of her songs, although EPO tunes were often arranged by Nobuyuki Shimizu（清水信之）. It's a fun tune that may harken back to those 50s and 60s but also remind me of what music was doing in Japan in those 80s. As the thumbnail photo for the video will attest, "Omoide no School Love" was also included in Sudo's second BEST compilation "Tear-drops Calendar" from April 1985 which peaked at No. 63 on Oricon.