Yasuhiro Abe -- Rainy Day Girl

 

The first time I heard Yasuhiro Abe's（安部恭弘）"Rainy Day Girl", I swore that this must have been used for one of the original anime vignettes on Seizo Watase's（わたせせいぞう）"Heart Cocktail"（ハートカクテル）series in the 1980s. I mean, it just had that gloss perfect to adorn some three-minute romantic interlude between the beautiful people there.

But strangely enough, "Rainy Day Girl" was the fifth single in Abe's discography that was released in June 1984. I think what got me getting all Watase in the head was that bouncy keyboard intro that I've heard in at least a few of those "Heart Cocktail" episodes. Still, it's all Abe's melody with his joy of City Pop and J-AOR (especially that guitar solo) and Takashi Matsumoto's（松本隆）lyrics. The song was also included in the singer-songwriter's second album "Moderato" from March 1984. How about a drive down the Ventura?