Teruhiko Aoi -- Boku no Himitsu（僕の秘密）

 

Well, for a guy who really wanted to keep things a secret, he's pretty open about it with how much he loves that girl.

I'm talking about Teruhiko Aoi's（あおい輝彦）debut single as a solo artist, "Boku no Himitsu" (My Hidden Secret). Once a member of Johnny & Associates' first group Johnnys in the 1960s, Aoi even took four and a half months during his stint with the group to head over to America to study singing, dancing and English. Of course, he would have his biggest hit nearly a decade later with "Anata dake wo" (あなただけを). 

But it all began with "Boku no Himitsu" which was released in August 1968 not long after Johnnys broke up in the previous year. Written and composed by Aoi himself (something that he did on occasion) with arrangement by Kunihiko Suzuki（鈴木邦彦）,  he created the song as this one-man Group Sounds tune which probably had the teens shimmying on the tables, although I don't know how well it did on the charts. The sultry way he keeps saying "I love you" and "I wanna tell you my hidden secret", it's pretty obvious that he was studying his English.