Although not an exceptional singer, her genki and youthful vocals really match with the poppy 80’s music and after only a few listens, her first two albums “Sentimental” IYO and “Something IYO” had become HUGE faves of mine!
I knew all of her albums were long out of print but hoped I could find a copy thru ebay or something. Then I remembered that Pony Canyon had recently re-released all Yukiko Okada albums in UHQCD format, and wondered if there was an off chance that Iyo's company had done something similar…and hit the jackpot!
It was Iyo’s 35th Anniversary last year, and to commemorate the milestone, they released a special package called YAPPARI IYO ’16 featuring her first two albums Sentimental IYO and Something IYO (YES!) enclosed in a BEAUTIFUL 100 page photobook!
From the CD Japan order form I expected the booklet to be maybe 5x7 in size, but when I got it i was impressed to find it was a huge 8x12 shashinshuu filled to the brim with colorful pictures pretty Iyo in her heyday shining bright!
If that wasn’t enough, the package ALSO came with a DVD featuring a mini-documentary following Iyo as she lived her idol life promoting her early albums….
..and then LIVE performances of songs from the albums as well!
She did a bunch of my favorite songs like “sweet Inspiration” , “Love Me tender’ and of course “Sentimental Journey”, wish she could have sung songs like “Wonderful World”, “Hito Kakera no Natsu”, “Heart Collection” and ”A Boy Meets A Girl”, which are my absolute faves, but just seeing her onstage dancing and singing and looking as radiant as could be was thrilling enough!
A FINE way to celebrate a fine 80's Idol's Anniversary!
Posted by zdorama @ zdoramaagain.blogspot.com
Posted by zdorama @ zdoramaagain.blogspot.com
