Rie Ida & 42nd Street -- Party wo Nukedashite（パーティーを抜け出して）

Found another winner on the "Light Mellow ~ Highway" disc that I would like to feature here for all of you City Pop fans on "Kayo Kyoku Plus".

Weirdly enough, this lady and her band weren't featured in "Japanese City Pop" but Rie Ida & 42nd Street（井田リエ＆ 42nd STREET）were able to get some of their songs onto the "Light Mellow" series including this track from their 2nd of three albums, "Star" from 1980. Titled "Party wo Nukedashite" (Get Me Out of the Party), it has that nice set of warm honeyed horns and mellow keyboards backing up the light and soulful vocals of Ida.

Unfortunately there isn't much else written up on Ida and 42nd Street but unlike Takako Mamiya（間宮貴子）and her lone album, at least Ida was able to get that total of three LPs out. "Party wo Nukedashite" was written by Hiroko Hagita（萩田寛子）and composed by 42nd Street guitarist, Yoshihiro Yonekura（米倉良弘）, who would later create some other genre songs for folks such as Hitomi Tohyama（当山ひとみ）. Hiro Tsunoda（つのだ☆ひろ）of "Mary Jane"（メリー・ジェーン）fame was on drums here.

In the song, Rie is begging someone to take her out of this stuffy party for much more fun outside in the fresher and healthier air. Considering how smoking must have been back in those days, I wouldn't blame her, although if she had truly been wearing that leopard-skin outfit on the cover of "Star", I would have given her a heavy coat.