Yutaka Kimura Speaks ~ Japanese City Pop Masterpieces 100: Sugar Babe -- Ame wa Te no Hira ni Ippai（雨は手のひらにいっぱい）

 

Number: 008

Lyricist/Composer/Arranger: Tatsuro Yamashita

From their 1975 album: "SONGS"

The perfection of "Ame wa Te no Hira ni Ippai" (The Rain Has Filled The Palms of My Hands) makes this the quintessential Barry Mann song done in the Tatsuro style in the masterpiece "SONGS". I am really into this Southern Pop done in the tempo of the Classics IV and B.J. Thomas as it is wrapped within the Phil Spector sound to make an ideal arrangement that can also be considered to be a Niagara tune. Yamashita's later song, "2000t of Rain" can be said to have developed from it.

The above comes from "Disc Collection Japanese City Pop Revised" (2020).