Sugar -- Kiss ga Ippai（キスがいっぱい）

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Whenever I think of the vocal trio Sugar（シュガー）from the 1980s, I always envision their most recognized song "Wedding Bell"（ウエディング・ベル）and shiver a bit. After all, those lyrics that the ladies sing so sweetly also carry a major shiv in vengeance against a former beau and his blushing bride. Not sure how the audience reacted at the Kohaku Utagassen that New Year's Eve when Sugar performed it.

But no worries this time...the shields can come down. "Kiss ga Ippai" (Plenty of Kisses) is a straight-on gushy love song that has quite the feeling of a Candies（キャンディーズ）tune in arrangement and delivery by Miki, Kumi and Mohri. Written by copywriter-turned-lyricist Yoshiaki Sagara（さがらよしあき）, composed by Shinji Harada（原田真二）and arranged by Ichizo Seo（瀬尾一三）, this was the trio's 6th single from April 1983. With those particular keyboards in there, I'm not quite sure whether "Kiss ga Ippai" would be considered a pop tune or a technopop tune so I've decided to cover the spread by including both genres in Labels. Kinda too bad that the original recording isn't up on YouTube.