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Friday, April 17, 2026

Yuka Noda -- City Girl

 

This is going to age me even more considerably but when I read or see the phrase "City Girl", I think of Marlo Thomas in "That Girl" or Audrey Hepburn in "Breakfast at Tiffany's", although both ladies have their differences in looks and personality.


It was back in 2024 when I noted keyboardist Yuka Noda(野田ユカ)through a couple of tracks on her 1989 album "Carib no Yume"(カリブの夢). I covered the title track, which was some fine Caribbean fusion, and the funk-and-jazz "Manhattan Blue". Well, from this album, we now have "City Girl" which was composed by Eriko Tsukayama(塚山エリコ)who had also created the title track and continues with the funk and jazz from "Manhattan Blue". "City Girl" sounds like the perfect theme song for Barney Miller's wife as she's shopping around The Big Apple while her husband is out fighting crime.

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