Description Stay With Me Vinyl This product is 100% authentic. Item:Single: Stay With MeArtist Miki MatsubaraYear Released: 1979Label: See Saw Condition:Vinyl: ExcellentCover: Excellent About The Song:The song by Miki Matsubara, “Stay with me” (Mayonaka no Door), which any City Pop fan would be familiar with, has been played 4.6 million times over the past year on Spotify. Mayonaka occupies a late 70s, early 80s style jazz fusion, America-meets-rising-sun world, with a combo locking into a funky groove, in consummate session muso fashion. It’s got layers of muted horns, shimmering keys and extended harmony inflected strings. By the time Miki Matsubara released the song in 1979, aged 19 and a year out of high school, the City Pop genre was just starting to launch into full flight. Who Wrote Miki Matsubara’s Mayonaka 真夜中のドア No Doa Stay With Me? The music and words to the Mayonaka No Doa Stay With Me were written by two jobbing hit makers Tokuko Miura and Tetsuji Hayashi, both of whom have enough song writing credits listed on their wikipedia pages to give you Carpal Tunnel just trying to scroll through them. Tokuko is perhaps best known as the behind the scenes wordsmith to pen many of Pop megastar Seiko Matsuda’s early hits. Mayonaka no Doa was the only song she worked with Matsubara on. Many of the people Matsubara worked with describe her as being something special. Indeed, she was one of those people that was good at everything. At school, she was a top student, did well at sport, had a charismatic personality that everyone was drawn to. Everyone expected her to go on to a prestigious university. To her local community’s surprise at the age of 17, she courageously set out to the big smoke of Tokyo to pursue another of her many talents – singing. Within a year she was scouted after jumping on stage for an impromptu performance at a bar, and was promptly armed with some hit material and sent to the studio. About The Artist:During her music career she released 8 singles, and 12 albums. Despite her work being mainly domestic, outside of Japan she was also known for her work as an anime singer and songwriter, singing the opening and ending songs to anime such as Dirty Pair: Project Eden, although recently with the popularization of city pop her other work has gained overseas fans as well. While singing theme songs for the anime Gu Gu Ganmo, she performed under the name Suzie Matsubara (スージー・松原). From the 1990s forwards she especially worked on anime soundtracks and music for commercials. Matsubara also had some international work with Motown jazz fusion group Dr. Strut in Los Angeles (becoming a backing band in the album recordings for "Cupid"), Tokyo and Osaka (Hall concerts), later releasing a jazz cover album entitled "BLUE EYES". Her vocal range was that of a mezzo-soprano. What album did Stay With Me appear on? Stay With Me first appeared as Miki’s debut single on the 5th of November 1979. It would go on to appear on her debut album “Pocket Park” on the 21st of January 1980, on vinyl and cassette. A CD version of the album in 1990 and was reissued in 2009. ShippingPackaged: With great care.Returns: Free international returns after 30days.Courier: Japan Post - International ePacket Light service. Delivery Time: Approximately 2-3 weeks. *Japan Post no longer issues tracking numbers due to the current climate. Vinyl gradingMint(M)Record is still sealed and has never been played. Records advertised as Sealed or Unplayed should be Mint.Near Mint(NM)The record itself is in like brand new condition with no surface marks or deterioration in sound quality. Excellent(EX)The record shows some signs of having been played, but there is very little lessening in sound quality. Very Good(VG)The record has obviously been played many times, but displays no major deterioration in sound quality, despite noticeable surface marks and the occasional light scratch. Good(GD)The record is still just playable but has not been cared for properly and displays considerable surface noise, etc. Fair(FR)The record has played so much that the sound quality has noticeably deteriorated, perhaps with some distortion and mild scratches. Poor(PR)The record will not play properly due to scratches, bad surface noise, etc. Sleeve gradingMint(M)Cover is still sealed and has never been played.Near Mint(NM)The cover and any extra items such as the lyric sheet, booklet, or poster are in perfect condition.Excellent(EX)The cover and packaging have slight wear, stains, creasing. Very Good(VG)Normal wear and tear on the cover or extra items, without any major defects, is acceptable. Good(GD)The cover and contents suffer from folding, scuffing of edges, spine splits, discolouration, etc. Fair(FR)The cover and contents are torn, stained and/or defaced.Poor(PR)The cover and contents are badly damaged or partly missing. Thank you! CANVASVinyls