Jolly Dog -- DAISUKI!!

 

And we're at Hump Day. Once again, we're looking at one of those obscure bands that rather came and went. This time, the group here is or was Jolly Dog that seemed to have been active in the 1990s at some point. From what I could scratch up from the ground is that according to some of the images of other CD singles they have released, it was a trio with the names of Rico, Masa and Shu, and they released at least two singles and a 1996 self-titled album.

One of those singles was "DAISUKI!!" (I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!), released in June 1995. Putting both the song title and the band's name into J-Wiki as a Hail Mary gesture only got me the man behind the words and music, Tokyo-born songwriter Yoshiaki FULTA Furuta（古田喜昭）who actually already has representation on KKP with his creation of City Pop duo STEP's "Cool de Atsui Kimi"（クールで熱い君）and Sugar's（シュガー）caustic "Wedding Bell"（ウエディング・ベル）, both in the early 1980s.

"DAISUKI!!" has that 1990s brand of City Pop (the saxophone right from the beginning brought back memories of West Shinjuku) with plenty of Toshinobu Kubota（久保田利伸）-friendly funk. There also seems to be a meshing of cute/perky and soulful between the female and male vocalists. As well, "DAISUKI!!" was used as the commercial jingle for Victoria sporting goods.