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Yesterday, I covered aidoru Hiroko Mita's（三田寛子）August 1984 B-side song "Hatachi no Mae de"（20才の前で）which had a pretty lush arrangement in my estimation.
Well, I have another aidoru's B-side song from 1984, and by the way, welcome to KKP, Sayuri Iwai（岩井小百合）! The native of Kanagawa Prefecture had a relatively brief time as an 80s teenybopper singer with a total of 12 singles ranging from 1983 to 1987 with 4 original albums. That B-side, "Tokimeki no Kisetsu" (Season of Excitement), was on the flip side to her March 1984 6th single "Soushun Memory"（早春メモリー...Early Spring Memory）, and it's one of the conventional types of aidoru tune with that gently lilting 50s love song style as Iwai swoons over falling in love for the first time. The lyricist and composer were Mieko Arima（有馬三恵子）and Kisaburo Suzuki（鈴木キサブロー） respectively.
Although Iwai's time as an aidoru was short, she's been able to continue to work in the entertainment industry for many years in roles including information variety reporter, pachinko parlour aidoru and thespian.
岩井小百合 time as an idol might have been very short, but she hasn't completely given up on music. She went on to study Music and Languages in Houston, Texas, in the USA, back in 2005, and stayed there for about four years. I wonder if anyone recognized her?
ReplyDeleteI just wonder if she picked up a Texan drawl while she was there for four years. :)
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