Kinda wonder how busy Roppongi has been all of these months. It was a fairly regular hangout for me during my 17 years in the Tokyo area since I once met a student in a café in Roppongi Hills on Monday mornings, and my friends and I visited the Hard Rock Café and Tokyo Midtown for dinner once in a while. There was also a pretty stylish bookstore just above Roppongi Station that I visited often.
I don't recollect ever visiting Roppongi during that graduation trip to Japan in the summer of 1981 although our home away from home for the first four nights in the megalopolis was the Tokyo Prince Hotel which is located not too far away (then again, high school-age kids shouldn't have been anywhere in the neighbourhood). It probably was a little more exclusive since at the time, it was pretty much all about the bars and hostess clubs and discotheques.
A couple of years before that in 1979, Brazilian singer Sonia Rosa（ソニア・ローザ）put out her 4th album, "Samba Amour", and on it, was her 5th and final single to date, the stylish "Tokyo in the Blue". Perhaps it could have been played in the background of one of those Roppongi clubs or bars. With Yuji Ohno（大野雄二）embracing all of that bossa nova, it can nicely fit in the Latin arm of the City Pop octopus. Machiko Ryu（竜真知子）provided the words that Rosa so silkily delivers. Actually, the song was used as the theme for a TV Asahi program "Haruka na Saka"（遥かな坂...Distant Hill）.
Another track from "Samba Amour" is "Te Quero Tanto (I Love You, So)" that already has a spot on "Kayo Kyoku Plus".
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