Cats★Eye -- Mekkiri Tsumetaku Narimashita（めっきり冷たくなりました）

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Uh...no. This article has nothing to do with Anri's（杏里）classic "Cat's Eye" or the famous manga-turned-anime from the 1980s. But in fact, there was a brief time when this duo existed in the late 1970s known as Cats★Eye（キャッツ★アイ）.

It was somewhat providential then that I had written a Pink Lady article yesterday afternoon since Cats★Eye was born in the throes of the Pink Lady boom starting from the mid-1970s. Consisting of Chikae "Non" Ohtani（大谷親江）and Nana Yamanaka（山中奈奈）, the duo made their debut around mid-1977 and released a mere four singles and an album before the show was all over for them sometime in 1978. 

Their second single was "Mekkiri Tsumetaku Narimashita" (It's Become Really Cold) which was released in September 1977. Just judging from their performance above on what I think is "Yoru no Hit Studio"（夜のヒットスタジオ）, I gather that they were going for some of that Pink Lady choreography although their singing style was more akin to Candies. Written by Akira Ito（伊藤アキラ）and composed by Yukinojo Mori（森雪之丞）, it's one upbeat tune that sounds a bit reminiscent of those 1950s pop ditties, specifically "Please, Mr. Postman", although Ito's lyrics are a woman not just describing the coming cold of an autumn turning into winter but also the same thing happening with a romantic relationship. 

Speaking of things going cold, according to the J-Wiki article on Cats★Eye, apparently Non went no-no to the rest of her singing career and basically fled the geinokai. Yamanaka tried to hold the fort as best as she could, but as I said above, the duo was done like dinner later in 1978.