Just for the record, the official Christmas season on "Kayo Kyoku Plus" won't start until November 25th in a couple of weeks. However, this particular song's entry on the Yutaka Kimura Speaks file is coming up really quickly as No. 32 next Friday, so I ought to give it my thoughts before letting Mr. Kimura take the helm.
Now, truth be told, I don't think Masamichi Sugi's（杉真理）"Saigo no Merry Christmas" (Last Merry Christmas) hits me as a City Pop Yuletide tune but when it comes to the feelings of the Holidays, no problems there. Sugi took care of everything: lyrics, music and arrangement for this contemporary take on the merry season although from the title, I gather that not everything is merry in the romance department. The melody has nice hints of soul in there and I wonder who's on the chorus besides Sugi...Mariya Takeuchi（竹内まりや）perhaps?
"Saigo no Merry Christmas" was originally a track on Sugi's compilation album "Winter Lounge" from November 1986. Sugi invited a whole bunch of artists on his album for his take on a Christmas party and so we have folks such as PSY-S, Yoshitaka Minami（南佳孝）and Hi-Fi Set（ハイファイセット）. It was also released as his 13th single on the same day as the album.
December 9th 2023: The band Quruli has a namesake song although it is a completely different animal.
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