Welcome to Urban Contemporary Friday on KKP! A few years ago, I posted this article on a scintillating duet between the soulful and bluesy singer-songwriter Masaki Ueda（上田正樹）and the just-as-soulful and sweet singer-songwriter Cindy titled "Letting You Go ~ Ai no Kageri"（愛の翳り）. I mean, this was a 1985 song that would have had Bobby Caldwell clapping in appreciation.
Early last month, a commenter for "Letting You Go" gave me a tip on another collaboration between the two that occurred about a decade later when Ueda released his 28th album "Sweet Voice" in October 1995. Titled "SONG OF LOVE", it's indeed another soulful ballad that was composed by Ueda and written by Clay Rowley, and though in agreement with the commenter that it's not quite as spine-tingling as the earlier ballad, "SONG OF LOVE" is still a pretty hopeful love song with Ueda and Cindy giving their all behind the microphone. I wonder if they had ever performed this in concert; would like to know if there's a video out there for that.
I find the performance of this song quite impressive, although to my ears it sounds more like the 1980s than the 1990s. If, someone told me that this was was created and produced in the the United States I would have believed it.
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