Yoshiaki Ohuchi -- Back Seat de Koi wo Shite（バックシートで恋をして）

 

I remember the 1970s American sitcom "Happy Days" for many things, one of them being the running gag of Inspiration Point, a hallowed place somewhere in Milwaukee where cars containing a young couple can park so that the couple can...park.😉I think Richie, the Fonz and all of the other guys can relate.

That was the setting that I was reminded of when I first heard the late Yoshiaki Ohuchi's（大内義昭）"Back Seat de Koi wo Shite" (Make Love in the Back Seat) which was the first and basically the title track for his 1989 album "Back Seat". It's quite the jovial horn-fueled City Pop number that is pretty reminiscent of the music from the early part of the 1980s. Ohuchi took care of both words and music and for me, it's the second song to show that the musician also had his flair for the urban contemporary after covering his "Zero de Hajimaru Number"（ゼロではじまるナンバー）last year. Even the cover for "Back Seat" is a riff off Tetsuji Hayashi's（林哲司）classic 1977 album "Back Mirror".