Welcome to another Hump Day on KKP! It's been a fairly dreary Wednesday so far here in Toronto. We're not getting soaked but neither are we getting any sun today.
To start off our middle-of-the-week session of "Kayo Kyoku Plus", we have another singer who's a mystery lady. I couldn't find a stitch of information about Nako Mizumura（水村なこ）outside of the fact that she did release some singles here and there, one of them being the 1971 record "Suna no Onna" (Woman in the Dunes). The melody by Yasumi Matsuo*（松尾安巳）with arrangement by Koji Makaino（馬飼野康二）has that late 1960s and early 1970s kayo rumble that I've often associated the more upbeat songs with, and it was interesting when I saw terms such as "kayo soul" and "kayo disco" to describe it. Hmmm...maybe I should have used those in Labels right from the start. In any case, if anyone out there has any information on Mizumura, please let us know. Even the Yahoo Japan search engine couldn't give me anything. By the way, Mieko Arima（有馬三恵子）came up with the lyrics.
*That first name is an educated guess by me.
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