Only discovered about this City Pop treasure within the last half-hour. Titled "Tokyo Melody" and sung by Shoody（シューディ）, I first found it on one of the many genre compilations and then went searching for the individual song. Luckily, I could find it as a video that was originally posted back in 2012.
Nothing better than a song like this for a City Pop Friday...tight horns, groovy keyboard and the cool vocals by Shoody. A lot of City Pop fans/commenters on YouTube have wondered aloud about traveling back in time to experience life in the late 1970s and 1980s while listening to their favourite tunes. I'd say that they would do worse than pop this in their magic Walkman while making the trip back. I myself have wondered what it must have been like to walk in West Shinjuku or Roppongi in the same year that I made that trip to Tokyo as a teenager. Heck, I wouldn't mind taking a walk around the Tokyo Prince Hotel near Shiba Park in 1981 once more.
As is the case with a number of these City Pop songs and singers, I couldn't find out a whole lot about them. From one source, I gleaned that Shoody is the daughter of a man from Mozambique while her mother is a Swedish-American. She released two albums, the first of which was "Tomorrow's Child" from 1981 which has "Tokyo Melody" as a track. The single version of the song was released ahead of the album. From another site, I found out that Shoody was backed by Tetsuji Hayashi's（林哲司）disco band, The Eastern Gang. Indeed, Hayashi was responsible for music and arrangement while someone named Gregory Starr wrote the lyrics according to the JASRAC library. Somehow, I don't think that it's the same guy who worked at the United Nations.
