A little under five years ago in 2018, I posted the second single of aidoru Keiko Nose（能瀬慶子）, "Hadashi de Young Love"（裸足でヤングラブ）. The lass had her very brief time in the singing spotlight with all four of her singles and a lone album coming out in the one year of 1979.
Not the strongest of singers, Nose did have the cuteness and the "Let's win this game for the coach!" gumption though which showed up in "Hadashi no Young Love", and it also showed up in "Bon Voyage". This wasn't a single but a track on that one album by Nose, "Hohoemi Prelude"（ほほえみプレリュード...Smile Prelude）, which was released in June 1979. As was the case with many an aidoru song at the turn of the decade, there is plenty of appropriately breezy and summery vibes in "Bon Voyage", and I'm guessing that the warp-powered electric guitar is being played by rocker Shogo Hamada（浜田省吾）, who composed this song as well as "Hadashi no Young Love". Makoto Kitajo（喜多条忠）was responsible for the lyrics while Motoki Funayama（船山基紀）arranged the tune to sound like it should accompany a nice romantic run down the beachside. The interesting thing is that I could catch the strings playing what sounds like a reprise from Percy Faith's "Theme from a Summer Place".
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