When I first saw this title, I immediately thought that this should be the title for the next Benoit Blanc movie. Yep, my impression of any Colonial Hotel is that it must be located somewhere near the bayous of Louisiana. And yet, there is a Colonial Hotel located right in my currently icy province of Ontario in the community of Grand Bend.
Anyways, moving onto that song, "Colonial Hotel no Dekigoto" (Incident at the Colonial Hotel) is another example on KKP where I start with the B-side of a single before going to the A-side. And indeed, this was the A-side for Seiko Tomizawa's（富沢聖子）1984 single that I'm getting to today more than a year after having tackled the B-side of "Anata to Southern Island"（あなたとSouthern Island）.
For something titled "Colonial Hotel no Dekigoto", one would imagine something rather zydeco in the arrangement, but instead, we get something on the order of jazzy sophisticated pop and Brazilian...namely, bossa nova. This is a nice contrast to the tropical breeziness of "Anata to Southern Island". It's almost the same cast of characters for both songs: lyricist Machiko Ryu（竜真知子）and arranger Mitsuo Hagita（萩田光雄）but for the A-side, it's composer Takuya Takahashi（高橋拓也）. A Benoit Blanc movie is something that I don't hear here...it's more Henry Mancini-esque with dashing romance in this one, and it fits the type of music that Ruiko Kurahashi（倉橋ルイ子）and Junichi Inagaki（稲垣潤一）tackled with aplomb in those 1980s.
This is a little bit sophisticated like something that I imagine might be played in a bar parlour.
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