Another incredible group introduced to me by Dano is the group Wink, featuring girls Sachiko Suzuki (鈴木早智子) and Shoko Aida (相田翔子). He had collections of Wink Promotional videos on Laserdisc, and the song Itsumademo Suki De Itakute was one of the ones that I loved the very first time I heard it.
I always referred to Itsumademo Suki De Itakute as “That Umbrella Song” because in the video, the two girls are singing under a big kasa as the rain sprinkled gently over their heads. I remember going “Oooh, I LIKE this song!” Dayo quickly made me a VHS dub of his precious laserdiscs so I could have copies of the videos to watch at my leisure…what a gent!
I didn’t know it was such a popular song though, til one night I happened to go karaoke singing with a bunch of people, and one of the girls brought a romanized songbook of popular tunes, and there among the latest songs from trf, Moritaka Chisato and even Teresa Teng, I spied the romanized Japanese lyrics for Itsumademo!
Not that I was gonna try and SING it or anything (though I DID try to sing Motto Motto” by Shinohara Ryoko…what’s up with ME!) but it made an impression that this pretty little group Dayo introduced to me was bigger than I knew…in fact, I was to find that they’d even won the Recordo Taisho a few years back! Wow!
