Pink Lady

The feminine pop vocal duo of Mitsuyo “Mie” Nemoto (born March 9, 1958) and Keko “Kei” Masuda (born Sept 2, 1957), culling their name from the alcoholic beverage, shot to popularity in their indigenous Japan in the later ’70s after appearing on the Superstar Search-like show there called Superstar Tanjo (Star’s Delivery). After credit scoring numerous strikes — including a cover from the Community People’s “Within the Navy” recast as “Green Typhoon” — they attemptedto duplicate their achievement within the U.S. In summertime 1979, they eked out a Top 40 strike with the minor disco monitor “Kiss at night,” becoming just the next Japanese act going to the singles graph (pursuing Kyu Sakamoto’s 1963 number 1 strike “Sukiyaki”). Their cheery personalities and malleability led NBC leader Fred Silverman to provide them an assortment series within the springtime of 1980; unfortunately, it became one of the primary missteps in Television background. Mie and Kei’s limited British (they performed generally phonetically), coupled with ethnically insensitive laughter, hackneyed and obsolete monologues from co-host Jeff Altman, and ill-conceived medleys of disco strikes and show music all conspired to create Green Lady (the present) an absolutely disturbing flop, one mercifully canceled following a simple month. Departing the Expresses soon afterward, girls gamely soldiered on back Japan, but didn’t recapture their prior achievement and parted methods in 1981. Their torch was continued, however, in following years by many fan sites along with a tribute music group called Green Lady X. Later 2001 noticed the prospects of the mini-resurgence, as Rhino Information reissued the Green Lady Television series on Dvd movie, spawning a fresh generation of wondering pop lifestyle vultures.