Good morning (although I'm typing this 7 minutes shy of noon)! I hope on this Boxing Day that you are satisfyingly still digesting your Xmas dinner from last night. I was fortunate enough to have plenty of protein in the form of turkey and roast beef, and then some apple pie to finish up. Ended up with a couple of cups of coffee, too, although I'm surprised to say that I was still actually able to get a good night's sleep.
It was a couple of years ago that I first introduced the eclectic band SPANK HAPPY with Midori Hara（原みどり）as the vocalist during the 1990s. The group has had a long history a goodly number of genres that they covered, especially in those early days in the 90s. When I posted about a couple of songs, "Boku wa Gakki"（僕は楽器）and "Hashiri Naku Otome"（走り泣く乙女）, both from 1994, they struck me as weaving between late 60s Beatles and Japanese pop/rock unit Judy & Mary.
Also from 1994, September 1994 to be exact, I found this final track from their album "My Name is...". "Ohayou" (Mornin'!) is yet another song of SPANK HAPPY that is catchy but quite different from the previous two songs that I mentioned. It's some happy pop rollicking against a backdrop of a House music rhythm, although it also decides to explore a bit near the end. But overall, it feels like something that the 80s synthpop band PSY-S would have whipped up in the late 1980s.
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