Pink Lady -- Monday Mona Lisa Club（マンデー・モナリザ・クラブ）

 

I've always treated the legendary duo Pink Lady（ピンクレディー）as the most disco aidoru group of the 1970s with their musical arrangements and choreography. But this particular single "Monday Mona Lisa Club" really got Mie and Kei, and for that matter, their regular go-to songwriters, lyricist Yu Aku（阿久悠）and composer Shunichi Tokura（都倉俊一）off their butts and hitting the Studio 54 dance floor. Production and arrangement were handled by Robby Adcock and Charles Merriam as it was being recorded in Los Angeles.

According to the J-Wiki article on "Monday Mona Lisa Club", Aku and Tokura wanted to cook up a really disco tune for the ladies and the ladies reciprocated by stating that this is the type of song they'd always wanted to perform. This was released as Pink Lady's 15th single from September 1979 and it was their final Top 20 hit, peaking at No. 14 and selling about 450,000 records.

"Monday Mona Lisa Club" also made it onto Pink Lady's December 1980 BEST album "Turning Point". According to Aku's lyrics, it's all about being in the post-disco party blues after another debauched weekend but hey, discos can be open on Mondays, too. Sounds like the supposed hangover remedy of "the hair of the dog".