Fujiro -- Ai no Yukue: Did You Find It?（愛の行方）

Found some City Pop in the form of the late Fujiro's（ふじろう）first track from his sole album "I'm In Love" from 1980. A nice pleasant strut in the city courtesy of Fujiro Sugitani（杉谷夫二朗）, the name he uses for his compositions, the songwriter also provided the lyrics for "Ai no Yukue: Did You Find It?" (The Direction of Love) in which he asks his old love whether she's found her way in romance once more as he still struggles for his. He's backed up here by Mai Yamane（山根麻衣）, according to the liner notes in "Light Mellow ~ City" which includes the song.

Fujiro had a wonderfully soulful voice which makes the fact that he supposedly left the mike for good after less than two years following his debut in May 1979 all that much more disappointing. According to a January 2009 episode of the late-night TV Asahi variety show "Knight Scoop" via the J-Wiki article for the singer, he appeared on an NHK music program (that invited viewers to send in their own songs) to sing a song that had been created by a high school student titled "El Dorado". However, for whatever reason, he couldn't get the right key and sometimes forgot the lyrics, with the whole experience traumatizing him so much that he announced his retirement at a concert in 1980 in Yonago City.

Afterwards, he would hold local music events and manage venues such as a live house and a cram school, but thanks to that feature on "Knight Scoop", he made a comeback later that year by releasing a new single, "Anata ni Ii Tabi wo"（あなたにいい旅を...Have A Good Trip）that would be sold nationwide. You can also check out his duet with Miwako Hiro（広美和子）, "Walking In The Rain".