Songs is the only studio album by Sugar Babe — the band that contained Tatsuro Yamashita and Taeko Ohnuki before both became City Pop legends. Released in 1975 on Eiichi Ohtaki's Niagara label and produced by Ohtaki himself, it barely sold at the time. But Songs is now considered the origin point of City Pop — the moment where the genre's essential values of sophisticated pop production, warm emotional directness, and Western musical influence were first concentrated into an album. Down Town became one of Japan's most beloved songs, covered hundreds of times in the decades since.
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