Keiko Toda -- Ame no You ni Naite（雨のように泣いて）

 

I'm currently watching actress, singer and seiyuu Keiko Toda（戸田恵子）on the NHK morning serial "Anpan"（あんぱん）which is the dramatization of the lives of manga and anime "Anpanman"（アンパンマン）creator Takashi Yanase and his wife Nobu. Toda is playing a member of Parliament in postwar Japan who also has a Florence Nightingale streak saving war orphans and widows in Tokyo. What's ironic is that Toda has also served as the voice for the hero Anpanman for years.

But before all that, Toda was also cutting records, one of which from 1983 seemed like a City Pop project titled "Naturally". My first Toda article on KKP, in fact, dealt with one of the tracks, "FADE IN ~ Youmei"（溶明）. Well, another track is "Ame no You ni Naite" (Let the Tears Fall Like Rain) and it also sounds like some elegant and classy urbane nighttime tune to be heard while looking wistfully out of a hotel window. Written by Toyohisa Araki（荒木とよひさ）and composed by Ken Sato（佐藤健）, who had also come up with the melody of "FADE IN", the piano, guitar and strings set up that environment of loneliness in the big bad city.