Yukari Ito - Misty Hour (2018)

The highest peak of Showa songs meets AOR. A work released in 1982 by Yukari Ito, one of the leading singers of Showa pop music known for songs such as "Pinky Finger Memories," in collaboration with Tetsuji Hayashi, who was famous as a producer of urban Japanese pop music at the time. The rare edition, which has been out of print for a long time due to rights issues and whose analog edition was traded at a high price, has been released on CD for the first time. From the beginning, it's a surprisingly urban mellow song, backed by a great lineup such as Tatsuo Hayashi, Shuichi Murakami, Akira Okazawa, Makoto Matsushita, Kan Inoue, etc., and the entire album is of a high standard and is a model for Japanese AOR. Yukari Ito's dignified voice makes you listen to her lazy vocals in the background!