Miho Morikawa -- Standard（スタンダード）

 

To start off this Friday's Urban Contemporary regimen of songs on KKP, there was Yutaka Ishio's（石尾豊）"Onna ni Juku shite Kaettekina"（オンナに熟して帰ってきな）with its swinging champagne-and-caviar City Pop arrangement.

We've got another one along the same lines with Miho Morikawa's（森川美穂）"Standard" from her 4th original album "1/2 Contrast" released in June 1988. It's got a kinder if plainer title but it also possesses that smash-bang live-it-up and paint-the-town-red vibe with plenty of horns to lead listeners into the bright lights of Ginza (as pictured above) or Akasaka. Written by Junko Sato（佐藤純子）and composed by Minoru Komorita（小森田実）, "Standard" shares track space with the first song on the album "Splash Blue". Just imagine heading down into downtown Tokyo by car while this is playing on the stereo.