JADOES -- Summer Lady

 

Let's see...of all the leading figures for City Pop on this side of the Pacific Ocean, Rocket Brown has attended a few of those City Pop dance parties while Van Paugam has created some of those parties everywhere. I haven't had the chance to do either, but it would be interesting to drop in if such a fete were ever to be organized in my neck of the woods here in Canada. Mind you, I'd be keenly observing from a strategically placed vantage point in the venue instead of shaking my booty on the floor (don't think they use that expression anymore).

Certainly, I wouldn't ever advise a DJ for a City Pop party what should be placed on the playlist unless he/she asked. At this point, I think that the host would be more than knowledgeable about the various songs from the genre, but if I were ever asked, JADOES' "Summer Lady" would be a pretty nice choice.

Straight from the band's July 1987 2nd album "Free Drink" which also has "Roku-gatsu no Photograph"（6月のフォトグラフ）and "Hot Melody", "Summer Lady" has got the right seasonal vibes including some of that Kadomatsu spice and a dang splendid trumpet solo. It's just the thing that we would need for a chilly November as well as a City Pop dance party. Yui Masaki（真沙木唯）took care of the lyrics and vocalist Hideki Fujisawa（藤沢秀樹）provided the funky music (the stereo on this copy is plenty good at the start).

I heard from Rocket last week that there was a City Pop dance party near his area with social distancing rules in effect. Heck, that's wonderful and all that, but I'm hoping that sometime into 2021, the whole she-bang will be back in gear.