Managed to find something appropriately festive for a Friday night, and this would be "Koi no Festa" (Festa of Love), the opening track on veteran singer Yukari Ito's（伊東ゆかり）April 1986 album "HANAGUMORI". I've always admired how Ito has tried on a number of different genres for size over the decades starting from her teenybopper days in the 1960s performing covers of American pop hits.
Well, she's had her dalliances in the City Pop genre in the 1980s, specifically "Misty Hour" in 1982, but over here with "Koi no Festa", there's more of that Latin sizzle although there is that certain keyboard which kinda keeps one foot in City Pop. Written by Masako Arikawa（有川正沙子）and composed by the late Junko Hirotani（広谷順子）, I love that velvety voice behind the mike although sometimes the choice of synths gets the song a little cheesy but not so much that I start doing cringes.
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