Of course, I've known about guitarist and songwriter Shigeru Suzuki（鈴木茂）for years as someone who's provided a lot of singers with their material along with his own discography which includes the fine 1976 "Lady Pink Panther". And of course, I know him as being one of the Fab Four in the legendary band Happy End（はっぴいえんど）.
But I don't know very much about the rock band that he was also associated with, Hucklebuck（ハックルバック）, which has apparently come in and out of existence about four times with the first time being the year of 1975. Mind you, it has consisted of some of the best studio musicians including Suzuki, drummer Jun Aoyama（青山純）and the late great keyboardist Hiroshi Sato（佐藤博）, and I'm sure that they were busy enough in their solo activities.
The album "Maboroshi no Hucklebuck"（幻のハックルバック...The Mysterious Hucklebuck） was recorded in the studio in October 1975 but released in 1976, and the first track on Side A is "Great American Funky Girl", an instrumental which was composed by Suzuki. I would like to know who inspired the man to come up with such a funky piece to open the album. I can only think of a particularly sassy young lady from New York but other than that, I know bupkis. But the guys in the band obviously had a great time jamming this short and sweet piece, and it sounds like the ideal theme song for an American sitcom or drama regarding the titular lady in the Big Apple.
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