Incredibly enough, after nearly thirteen years of doing "Kayo Kyoku Plus", I still don't think I have covered all of Junko Yagami's（八神純子）singles going into the early 1980s, and this is considering that the Nagoya singer-songwriter has been one of my favourites in the City Pop field.
Case in point: Yagami's 14th single from October 1982, "Touch you, tonight". I've been seeing this title for years but never quite got around to posting it until today. Written by Yoshiko Miura（三浦徳子）and composed by the singer herself, this is just one of a number of successful collaborations between the two which include "Mizuiro no Ame" (みずいろの雨）and "Purpletown" (パープルタウン）, although the latter would eventually include a few more people in the songwriting credits.
"Touch you, tonight" weaves a story of some titillating skinmanship between a couple (nudge, nudge, wink, wink) with Ichizo Seo（瀬尾一三）incorporating some harder New Wave instrumentation into the City Pop arrangement (there's still that wailing electric guitar though). Speaking of arrangement, Yagami's especially breathy and kittenish delivery at points has reminded me a bit of Minnie Ripperton.
Meanwhile, the B-side of "Miss Plumeria", which was wholly concocted by Yagami, rides on a Doobie Brothers rhythm as she sings about the titular young lady bewitching interested fellows on the beach. It's a pleasant summertime AOR tune that has a rather weirdly bracing bit in the middle before that electric guitar solo reassures listeners once more. The single reached No. 45 on Oricon.
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