With one of the shortest aidoru careers that I've noted on KKP, I was still attracted to Tsugumi Morita（森田つぐみ）because of her sweet vocals and the cover of her final single to date, "Koishite Kaigan Douri" (Love Me, Beachside Street).
Released in December 1976, "Koishite Kaigan Douri" is the story of a breezy and intoxicating love affair in Yokohama that was written by Rei Nakanishi（なかにし礼）and composed by Ken Takeda（竹田賢）. The melody has got a nice skippy rhythm reflecting the innocence and issue-free romance that the lovebirds are enjoying in the port city.
Morita was born Tsugumi Fujiwara（藤原嗣美）in Metropolitan Osaka in 1959 and she won a championship on a NET TV (now TV Asahi) audition show. She made her debut in spring of 1976 and released a total of three singles and one album in that one year before apparently disappearing from the recording booth for good, although she may have continued her television career for a wee bit longer. In 2014, she began running her own establishment, Cafe & Bar Alii's（カフェ＆バー アリーズ）in Nishonomiya, Hyogo Prefecture.
If you write a post about 1976, then I will most likely show up to post a comment! 恋して海岸通り is a moving idol or pop song! I can imagine that this would be a fun song to sing at a karaoke bar. I wonder why Morita stopped her singing career, and I wonder what she was doing for four decades. Well, I'm glad she has stayed busy and even has her own business.
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