Welcome to February! Coming off a frosty January where we had more than a few days below the freezing mark, including a couple of days just a week ago when temps didn’t crack 20. Oh, yeah, we got snow twice last month to boot, fortunately, we only got three inches on both occasions. Whew! I’m no fan of snow, so I’m relieved we didn’t get much.

For this month, I have a theme of sorts to entertain everyone, that being how the incredible popularity of Pink Lady directly led to their becoming top flight pitchwomen. As everyone knows, when Mie and Kei took off like a rocket as pop music stars, you literally couldn’t go anywhere without seeing their faces, the girls were everywhere, and I do mean EVERYWHERE, most notably on magazine covers where the Ladies straight up dominated. Of course, since I was in Japan during the height of Pink Lady mania, I saw it all first hand, including all those covers, at the time, however, it never occurred to me to buy those magazines, opting instead to focus my finances on music and dedicated books and pictures of them. Over four decades later, thanks to the internet, most notably, Pinterest, I’ve been able to find a boatload of pictures of all those covers which I’ve turned into the feature known as, well, Pink Covers, complete with a new page I’ve added. I know I’ve said this before, but it holds true today as ever, there’s LOTS more stuff out there from the glory days and beyond that I’ve never seen, that’s why I search online as much as I do as I want to present fresh stuff for fans here to enjoy.