Kumi Nakamura -- Kimagure（気まぐれ）

 

I like to welcome actress Kumi Nakamura（中村久美）to KKP and I'd like to emphasize that being a thespian is her main bread-and-butter (no musical pun intended) since she only released one single and one album (both in November 1980) to accompany her very long resume of acting roles. In fact, the video above will take you to a commercial she did for a pharmaceutical company.

Anyways, I did find this B-side to that lone single she did in 1980. Titled "Kimagure" (Whimsy) with the A-side titled "Kaette Oide yo"（帰っておいでよ...Come On Home）, the melody by Fumiko Kikuchi（菊池文子）kinda fulfills the whimsical aspect with the funky disco flute and the Fender Rhodes/electric piano of the 1970s and it's a nice little skip down the city lane. Machiko Ryu（竜真知子） provided the lyrics and I think Nakamura acquitted herself pretty well on this one. Would be interested on how she did with some of those remaining songs she contributed to her album "Hiko Shojo"（飛行少女...Flight Girl）.

Probably for such a rare single, it has been fortuitous that DJ Notoya was kind enough to include it as the first track on his "Tokyo Glow" compilation.