First off, my apologies to the online music shop "Soul Respect Records" for borrowing their image but I couldn't find any footage of the actress (and brief singer) Megumi Nakajima（中島めぐみ）on YouTube, and I'd wanted to show more than a video thumbnail this time around.
Yes, I have included Nakajima on KKP before under the Label of Megumi Nakajima (80s) for her June 1981 City Pop debut single "Lamé-iro no Decameron"（ラメ色のデカメロン）to distinguish her from contemporary seiyuu Megumi Nakajima（中島愛）. And I also have to now add that there is another Megumi Nakajima who even has the exact name structure as Megumi Nakajima (80s) but she is in fact a former Kansai TV announcer.
Now that I've gotten that disclaimer paragraph out of the way, I can refer to Nakajima's final single from June 1982 (I did say that her music career was very brief), "Anata ni Better Bore" (Falling For You Even More). Compared to her brassy and bombastic Meiko Nakahara（中原めいこ）-similar debut single, this one is a straight-ahead bouncier and slightly speedier pop tune with a bit of 50s/60s vibe (sounds a bit like "The Loco-Motion") that was written by Yu Aku（阿久悠）, and Aku handled the lyrics of all three singles, A and B sides, and composed/arranged by Katsuo Ono（大野克夫）.
This feels ripe for a segment on a Japanese tv show where they track down all the famous Megumi Nakajima's and interview them and throw in some comedy there.
ReplyDeleteReminds me of the old American game show "To Tell the Truth".
DeleteJames Heisig gives the character「旬」the key word "Decameron" in his Remembering the Kanji book one and I never thought I would see this word used in a pop song but there is in Megumi Nakajima's "Lamé-iro no Decameron"（ラメ色のデカメロン).
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