Two aidoru groups of the 1970s: Candies（キャンディーズ）and Pink Lady（ピンクレディー）had the lion's share of rankings during their heyday, but even they had to call it a day so by the end of the decade, they went their separate ways. Some of them had separate singing careers and that included the late Yoshiko Tanaka（田中好子）of Candies who used to go by the name of "Sue".
From what I've read on her article on J-Wiki, her solo discography was very brief: basically one album and one single in 1984 with one more single in 1989. That one album was "Yoshiko"（好子）with one track being "Feel My Love Inside". Seeing that on my backlog bookmarks for the longest time, I had to remind myself about who it was that sang it, but with that title, I figured that it had to be some sort of City Pop or J-AOR tune. And as it turns out, I was right on both counts. A laidback tune written and composed by singer-songwriter Keiko Maruyama（丸山圭子）, I was delightfully surprised that Tanaka could carry this tune beautifully and tenderly on her own since I only heard her as part of the whole of Candies back in the 1970s.
This is a nice track and I remember the rest of the album being good too. It's interesting that she went for a City Pop / AOR sound, considering that the previous year her fellow Candie Miki went for a technopop sound on her solo album (and had the YMO guys helping out).
ReplyDeleteHello, Robert. Makes me wonder what Ran Ito was trying out for music in the 1980s.
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