1979 · THE LISTENING ROOM
Summer Champion
Yuko Asano
The review
Adapted from a Sergio Mendes composition, “Summer Champion” turns a cosmetics campaign into a full tropical disco rush. Yuko Asano's bright delivery rides brass, percussion and an arrangement built for immediate impact.
“Kamen Butokai” keeps the energy high on the reverse. Together the two sides make an unabashedly vivid summer single—commercial pop, Latin color and late-seventies Japanese disco in one package.
Sides
- A · Summer Champion
- B · Kamen Butokai
Original single
RCA · RVS-1171
Coupled with
Kamen Butokai