in 1975, he prepared to leave from the "all japan kayo championship" and won 10 awards every weeks. renamed to "hideto maki" after his teacher , he made his debut as an enka singer again with "yumeyo mouichido". this debut song became the first big hit as a solo singer and it broke again to rank 9th on the oricon national chart and won several excellent newcomer awards. also, despite being released in september, it is in the oricon annual best 100, and was selected as a candidate song for the nomination at the end of the year. many of the fans were middle and high school students who couldn't see the gs era in real time, and maki himself was concerned that it would end with a transitory boom.