Heck of a photo from "Myojo"（明星）that I picked for this Chiemi Hori（堀ちえみ）article, and it's been almost three years since the 80s aidoru has been back on the KKP byline. It's definitely wintry in the picture but when I woke up this morning, the temperature was only entertaining one lonely degree Celsius out there with a wind chill factor of -5 degrees. Nope, we're still far away from summer.
And yet, we are talking about Hori's sophomore single "Manatsu no Shojo" (Midsummer Girl) released on the first day of summer 1982. Written by Tsuzuru Nakazato（中里綴） and composed/arranged by Shigeru Suzuki（鈴木茂）, it certainly feels summery with some intriguing key changes worthy of Yumi Matsutoya（松任谷由実）. It sounds as bright and happy as the titular lass who is ready to greet the summer day with lots of brio. However, I've awoken to plenty of summer days in Japan, and I know that I was never ever anywhere near as fresh as her. I gobbled down my orange juice like a ragged man coming out of a desert. Needed a morning shower, too.😖
In any case, Hori's single peaked at No. 26 on Oricon. It's also available as a track on her 2nd album "Yume Nikki"（夢日記...Dream Diary） which came out in November 1982.
Chiemi Hori's hair style looks very reminiscent of Seiko's early 80's hair style in that single cover photo. The cute outfit too looks like something Seiko might have worn. This is nice 80's Aidoru pop.
ReplyDeleteYeah, it's quite some nice refreshing pop there. Hope she's been doing fine recently.
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