''My Sugar Babe'' is the seventh

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by Japanese singer-songwriter

Tatsuro Yamashita , occasionally credited as Tatsu Yamashita or Tats Yamashita, is a Japanese singer-songwriter and record producer, who is known for pioneering the style of Japanese adult-oriented rock/soft rock music. His most well-known song is "Christmas E ...

, released on October 21, 1980.

Overview

''My Sugar Babe'' and the coupling song ''Daydream'' are both taken from the

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. According to Yamashita, "My Sugar Babe" is a song dedicated about (hence the name of the song), a

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that he partook in before starting his solo career. He had the vague desire to write a song like this for quite some time but when he started to work on the album "Ride on Time", he felt that now was the right time, so he wrote it. The song was used as a theme song for the Japanese detective drama series ''Keishi-K'' which aired on

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. Additionally, an instrumental version from the drama was included in the bonus tracks of the remastered edition of "Ride on Time" and a short version was also included in the "Special Bonus Disc" of his 2002 compilation album ''The RCA/Air Years LP Box 1976-1982''. In 1994, Sugar Babe's album "" containing the original mix was released for the first time in CD. Yamashita also held a live performance titled "TATSURO YAMASHITA Sings SUGAR BABE" on that same year in which ''My Sugar Babe'' was performed live as the last song of the performance. ''Daydream'' is a song written by Minako Yoshida. Yamashita said that this was the best

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that she had ever written for him, and she is the only one who could have came up with the idea of creating lyrics from an

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in order to clear a melody with a detailed

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that is difficult to translate into

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. Tatsuro Yamashita is laid out on the front

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, while

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and the song's lyrics are laid out on the back of the jacket.

Track listing

Personnel

My Sugar Babe

– Electric Guitar (Right), Glocken & Background Vocals *Jun Aoyama – Drums *Koki Ito – Bass *Kazuo Shiina – Electric Guitar (Left) *Toshiaki Usui – Acoustic Guitar *

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– Keyboards *Nobu Saito – Percussion

Daydream

*Tatsuro Yamashita – Electric Guitar (Right), Percussion & Background Vocals *Jun Aoyama – Drums *Koki Ito – Bass *Kazuo Shiina – Electric Guitar (Left) *Hiroyuki Namba – Keyboards *Nobu Saito – Percussion *Shin Kazuhara – Trumpet *Yoshihiro Nakagawa – Trumpet *

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– Trombone (Solo) *Tadanori Konakawa – Trombone *Takeru Muraoka – Tenor Sax *Shunzo Sunahara – Baritone Sax

Chart positions

References

{{reflist 1980 songs 1980 singles Tatsuro Yamashita songs Japanese pop songs Japanese rock songs