A little over three years ago, I did a ROY article on Naked Eyes' "(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me" which was a New Wave version of an old Burt Bacharach and Hal David easy-listening ditty that I used to hear on AM radio all the time. Not only was I surprised but I was actually quite gobsmacked that a song like this could be made into a synthpop example of coolness.
Well, Naked Eyes pulled off another hit several months after that one. On April Fool's Day in 1983, they released "Promises, Promises" which I remember getting a lot of airplay on the radio and plenty of TV play on the music video shows. I will always remember that svelte young woman drying off her hair to the synthy jazz-soul. "Promises, Promises" hit No. 13 on Canada's RPM while in the States, it reached No. 11. On the Wikipedia article for the song, I read that Madonna even provided background vocals for the extended versions of it.
Up at Straw-Wara, I discovered that three hit tunes from Japan were also released on the same day as "Promises, Promises".
Anzen Chitai -- Las Vegas Typhoon（ラスベガス・タイフーン）
Yu Hayami -- Natsu Iro no Nancy (夏色のナンシー）
Rats & Star -- Me Gumi no Hito （め組のひと）
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