Singer-songwriter Keiko Mizukoshi's（水越けいこ）may not be the most well-remembered chanteuse of the kayo kyoku age, but I think folks of a certain age will hear her 1979 hit "Hoho ni Kiss Shite"（ほほにキスをして）and get all nostalgically warm and fuzzy on the inside. I guess that would be especially true since the song has a bit of that 50s feeling in there, too.
Well, going to her even earlier days in her debut year of 1978, Mizukoshi released an album and a couple of singles with her second single being "Meguriai Surechigai" (Encounters and Near-Misses) from November of that year. Written and composed by Kaoru Ito（伊藤薫）who would come up with the singer's breakthrough in "Hoho ni Kiss Shite" many months later, "Meguriai Surechigai" sounds more conventionally kayo and a refined one at that; maybe it could have been a theme song for a television drama. There is that plunky piano in there and Mizukoshi's vocals zip smoothly over the staff until they suddenly go up into the stratosphere at the end of each chorus.
Compared to her more modestly-ranking debut single which topped off at No. 72, "Meguriai Surechigai" managed to switch the digits and get up to No. 27. In fact, it did even better than "Hoho ni Kiss Shite" which peaked at No. 33, so go figure on that. The former song is also included on Mizukoshi's debut album "Lady" from December 1978 which ranked in at No. 17.
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