Keiko Okuda -- Yume Kudasai ~ Chi-Teki-Yuu-Yuu（夢ください―知・的・優・遊―）

This is one of the more elegant and exotic 80s aidoru tunes that I've come across. So, perhaps I shouldn't be all that surprised since it was composed by Koji Tamaki（玉置浩二）, the charismatic vocalist of Anzen Chitai（安全地帯）.

Keiko Okuda's（奥田圭子）debut single is "Yume Kudasai ~ Chi-Teki-Yuu-Yuu" (Give Me Your Dreams ~ Intellectual Gentle Play) from February 1985. It was also used for a Pilot fountain pen ad, and though I'm not totally reassured on my translation for that subtitle, there's an element in Keiichi Oku's（奥慶一）arrangement that makes me think that this could have been put into enka mode, but that's just my deranged opinion. Minori Suzui（鈴井みのり）came up with the lyrics that I think are about the vagaries of love.

Another interesting thing about "Yume Kudasai" which truly feels like it's taking place in some sort of dream world (the music video helps with the illusion) is in the refrain when there are two voices working together. There are Okuda's high-toned sighing vocals but then there is that really low vocal giving some subtext, it seems. I think that might be her voice as well but it's the first time in an aidoru song that I've heard a singer going really high and really low.

"Yume Kudasai" peaked at No. 32 for Okuda.

Keiko Okuda -- Tameiki no Yokan（ため息の予感）

Man, what a morning! Election Day in Canada and Enthronement Eve in Japan. Plus, I had to negotiate a new telecommunications bundle plan with my provider, but just when everything was settled, somebody on the other side screwed up and I was left without internet for almost 2 hours just before a translation assignment was to come in. Everything is fine now and I got a $50 discount on the monthly payments but I've been sighing all over the place in physical and existential fatigue.

This gives me the perfect opportunity to introduce this particular song by 80s aidoru Keiko Okuda（奥田圭子）, "Tameiki no Yokan" (Premonition of Sighs). For me, this strikes me as the quintessential aidoru tune of that decade: breezy and twinkly in the music with the nasal and slightly off-tune/on-tune delivery. Just the tonic to help me cool down after rushing through the assignment."Tameiki no Yokan" was written by veteran lyricist Yoshiko Miura（三浦徳子）and composed by Toshitaro Hiejima/Hieshima（稗島寿太郎）and it was a track in her lone album "cresc." from November 1985. It did only modestly, peaking at No. 90 on Oricon.

Along with that one album, the Hiroshima Prefecture-born Okuda also released 5 singles up to late 1987 and had her work as an actress up to the end of the century. After retiring from show business, she dabbled in producing her own line of anti-aging cosmetics called viento de KINO according to her J-Wiki bio.