Yurie Kokubu -- Last Woman

 

After so long, I think that I may have finally come to the last or one of the very last tracks to be covered on Yurie Kokubu's（国分友里恵）first album "Relief 72 Hours" from 1983. Personally, I think it's one of the great City Pop touchstones in my collection, and thus far, I've posted about most of the album, "Weekend Love" and "Love Song". 

The final track on "Relief 72 Hours" is somewhat logically titled "Last Woman" and it's a wistful and slightly soulful ballad of goodbyes sung languidly by Kokubu. Kazuko Kobayashi（小林和子）took care of the lyrics while Tadashi Yamashita（山下正）was the composer here. Yamashita was also behind arrangement along with Tetsuji Hayashi（林哲司）. I gather that it could been molded into a power ballad but I'm happy that things were kept under simmering levels. The strings certainly help.