Orange Sisters -- Summer Holiday（サマー・ホリデイ）

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Well, it looks like that Indian Summer might be coming a lot sooner than expected. Although things have been properly autumnal this week, this weekend and even going into next week, we'll be seeing temps perhaps hitting as high as 20 C which is a tad unusual for this time of year. Not complaining too much, though.

Even doing "Kayo Kyoku Plus" for well over a dozen years now, I will still be surprised now and then. A commenter from last week's "Sybille no Heya ~ Midnight Message"（シビルの部屋）was kind enough to reveal to me that the erstwhile Johnny's Entertainment (now STARTO Entertainment) that basically held the monopoly on male aidoru groups for decades once had a few female aidoru groups in its employ during the 1970s and 1980s!

One such group was Orange Sisters（オレンジ・シスターズ）consisting of Kayoko "Judy" Yoshitake（吉竹加世子）, Tae "Sandy" Sakai（酒井妙）, and Kiyomi "Candy" Yoshikawa（吉川聖美）. In 1982, Judy and Candy had been teen DJs for a tiny radio station known as the Kids Radio Station only broadcasting within the tony Aoyama district of Tokyo when through an audition, Sandy was selected to join the group. It was only a matter of time that the new trio would cut a record under the name Orange Sisters.

Although the three have only been designated as singers on J-Wiki, I would think that their employment under Johnny's and their singing style made them into an aidoru group. In any case, though, their debut single from March 1984 was "Summer Holiday", a very airy and pleasant 50s girl pop sort of tune written by Takako Osawa（大沢孝子）and composed/arranged by Hiroshi Shinkawa（新川博）. It did just modestly though by peaking at No. 97 on Oricon. However, the song had gotten its exposure to everyone a year earlier as a track on the 1983 album "Raspberry Avenue" under the name Kids All Stars.