Summer has been going on strong over this past weekend and even into Monday today. Still need the fan behind me. As such, yesterday I did mention for that Seiko Matsuda（松田聖子）entry "Lemondade no Natsu"（レモネードの夏）, that I had a few summer kayo left, and this is the other one.
Man, I think a fair few influences have been shaken and stirred into this cocktail. This would be "Suteki na Summer Days" (Splendid Summer Days) by singer-songwriter Masamichi Sugi（杉真理）and indeed he took care of everything for this tune. Listening to this one, I swear that he put New Wave, Eiichi Ohtaki（大滝詠一）and The Beach Boys into his food processor and mashed it together to form this fun little song about scarfing down a BLT (one of my favourite sandwiches) and hitting the road in his convertible with his beloved for some fun in the sun. I would have said that this was Tony Stark's Sunday but he was probably still a teen when this song was recorded.
"Suteki na Summer Days" was a track on Sugi's 5th album "Stargazer" released in April 1983 and it also served as his 10th single from June of that year; in fact, it came out right on the first day of summer. Keep the good times rolling with this one as autumn finally comes to town.
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