The last time I had singer-songwriter Masamichi Sugi（杉真理）on the byline was on Xmas Eve last year when I put one of his seasonal songs as part of the annual KKP Christmas season. Well, no Xmas Sugi song this time around but I have one here which will show up as a Yutaka Kimura Speaks tune in a couple of weeks.
"Yume Miru Nagisa" (Beach of Dreams) is a Sugi contribution to the March 1982 collaborative LP effort, "Niagara Triangle Vol. 2", with him, Eiichi Ohtaki（大滝詠一）and Motoharu Sano（佐野元春）, and yep, one of Sano's songs from that album has already been noted by me and Yutaka Kimura recently. Originally, "Yume Miru Nagisa" had been offered as a song for Mariya Takeuchi（竹内まりや）to record but the people around her dissuaded Sugi from that notion (and I believe that the future "Plastic Love" lass was in the middle of her hiatus from show business at the time). Then, Sugi had thought about placing the song on his next album "Overlap" but then Ohtaki came along and persuaded him to place the song onto "Niagara Triangle Vol. 2" instead.
The song is an AOR delight about just enjoying the happy life on the summer beach. It's very inviting for those who may actually want to sprint to their nearest seashore, and I could imagine Mariya taking this one on although I also believe that the arrangement would have been changed somewhat. At the same time, I think I also know how Cameron Lew of Ginger Root may have found his voice for his own songs just listening to Sugi. Just to finish things off, the Eizin Suzuki（鈴木英人）paintings in the video is the chef's kiss for "Yume Miru Nagisa".
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