The Tigers were a Japanese rock band formed in 1967, during the Group Sounds era.
[1] The group featured Kenji Sawada as their lead singer, and were signed by Watanabe Productions.
The band was renamed to "The Tigers" by recommendation of the show's director Koichi Sugiyama, who would later go on to compose many of their songs.
[3] The Tigers recorded "Smile for Me", composed by Barry and Maurice Gibb of The Bee Gees, which was released as a single in July 1969 in the UK and Japan.
[citation needed] After The Tigers broke up, Sawada formed the first Japanese supergroup, Pyg, in 1971.