A few years ago, I posted an article for Shinichi Furukawa's（古川真一）"Cool Romantic"（クール・ロマンティック）, a B-side that was quite the AOR goodie. As I mentioned there, I couldn't find a whole lot of information on the singer and songwriter or all that many songs by him online, but this B-side was the flip side to a 1987 single titled "Day Dream".
The uploader for the video here, Lotus Ladybug, also noted the dearth of Furukawa's discography on YouTube, so we are all lucky that they were able to put up "Day Dream" itself. Written by Tomoko Aran（亜蘭知子）and composed by Chiho Kiyooka（清岡千穂）, I had wondered about waiting until Urban Contemporary Friday (aka tomorrow) to put this one up but listening to this pleasant medium-tempo number, I felt that "Day Dream" was straight-ahead pop compared to its AOR B-side. I didn't quite notice it with "Cool Romantic", but I realized that Furukawa's vocals remind me a bit of the golden voice of Christopher Cross.
Anyways, good to hear that "Day Dream" is back up and running.
You had me with Tomoko Aran writing this, nice AOR tune!
ReplyDeleteYeah, I was surprised by the lyricist. I think at the time she was also writing for TUBE and that's a different sound entirely.
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