Yasuha -- Koi 1/2（恋 1/2）

Well, being Friday night and having 45 minutes left before November 2nd comes around, I feel like that I have to get in one City Pop tune, and the following person is just the tonic.

This is Yasuha（泰葉）with the first track from her debut album "Transit" released in November 1981. Launching things off here is "Koi 1/2" (Love 1/2), a good old strut of a tune bringing all sorts of good feelings in the big city. Sounding like a mix between classic City Pop and 1970s soul lifted from an ABC sitcom, Yasuha's melodic creation is pretty far away in tone from the rambunctious "Fly-Day Chinatown" (フライディ・チャイナタウン), her most famous song. As with that one, Toyohisa Araki（荒木とよひさ）also provided the lyrics to "Koi 1/2", but in terms of the music, this one is for sunny daytime as opposed to the fun nighttime chaos of "Fly-Day Chinatown".

I swear, though, with those high and bright vocals of Yasuha, she could have played the title character in the Japanese version of "Annie Get Your Gun".