Yutaka Ishio -- Onna ni Juku shite Kaettekina（オンナに熟して帰ってきな）

 

Happy Friday! I've mentioned this before whenever we get into the City Pop frame of mind on this day of the week, but it seems as if a lot of folk singers of the 1970s eventually found their inner city groove and jumped over to the J-urban contemporary going into the 1980s.

I found another singer making that jump. Yutaka Ishio（石尾豊）was once known as Danny Ishio of the late 60s-early 70s folk group Four Saints（フォー・セインツ）but sometime after it broke up in 1973, he got into a solo career. One single that he released well into the 1980s was the 1986 "Nonstop Freeway". For today's article, I have the B-side known as "Onna ni Juku shite Kaettekina" (Come Back When You're Mature Enough to be a Woman).

Aggressive title and judging from the Kingo Hamada（浜田金吾）melody (Hamada is another folk-turned-City Pop convert) and Motoki Funayama（船山基紀）arrangement, the setting must be in the champagne-and-caviar region of swinging Bubble Era Tokyo. I can even imagine the tinkling (or smashing) of champagne glasses as the keyboard is tripping the light fantastic. Konosuke Fuji（藤公之介）was responsible for the lyrics which are given clearly though not particularly expressively. 

As for Ishio, he later became the stadium DJ for the home games of the soccer J-League Kashima Antlers for twenty years between 1993 and 2013. He unfortunately passed away in April 2014 from liver cancer.