Yutaka Kimura Speaks ~ Japanese City Pop Masterpieces 100: Rie Nakahara -- Dreaming Love（ドリーミング・ラブ）

 

Number: 056

Lyricist: Minako Yoshida

Composer/Arranger: Tatsuro Yamashita

From Nakahara's 1978 album: "Killing Me"

"Dreaming Love" is a sweet soul ballad that is right up the alley of soul freak Tatsuro Yamashita（山下達郎）and makes effective use of the electric sitar. As soon as the arrangement was done in the manner of Thom Bell who had helped produce The Delfonics and The Stylistics, there was probably no one in Japan who could match Tats. And within that, the horns and strings arrangement along with the precise positioning were magnificent.

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