I visited Jamaica only once and that was during our cruise several years ago. It was plenty sunny in the town of Falmouth and we had a nice walk around the area. No hint of rain at all.
That brings us to the late jazz singer Tamaki Sawa（沢たまき）. I first mentioned her back in 2023 when I introduced her 1966 "Bed de Tabako wo Suwanai de"（ベッドで煙草を吸わないで）which was her first single for Victor. It was quite the comfortable Latin-tinged Mood Kayo.
Well, cue ahead the better part of two decades and here I have Sawa's final single for Victor which was her December 1984 "Ame no Jamaica" (Rainy Jamaica). The Latin is there but the Mood Kayo has been replaced by a more down-home and classy City Pop arrangement although the vocals by the singer here are very much in the jazz chanteuse vein. And I don't really hear anything of Jamaica here; this sounds more like a calm cruise down the Riviera via Tokyo. Takashi Matsumoto（松本隆）was responsible for the lyrics while Yoshitaka Minami（南佳孝）took care of the music.
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