Sunday, June 17, 2012

Oricon Top 10 Albums of 1976

1.  Masato Shimon                         Oyoge! Taiyaki-kun
2.  Grape                                     Sannen Zaka
3.  Yumi Arai                                Yuming Brand
4.  Yosui Inoue                              Shoutai no nai Show
5.  Yumi Arai                                 Cobalt Hour
6.  Masatoshi Nakamura                 Omoide no Kakera
7.  Kei Ogura                                Samayoi
8.  Kei Ogura                                Michigusa
9.  Olivia Newton-John                   Come On Over
10. Akira Inaba                              Nanka Ii Wasureta You De

Yuming definitely had a banner year. Not only did she finish 1976 with 2 albums in the Top 10 but there were two more albums ranked at No. 11 (Hikoki Gumo) and at No. 14 (Misslim). Grape was Masashi Sada's（さだまさし） old folk group. But the year of the Montreal Summer Olympics was also the year of the taiyaki!


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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousJune 18, 2012 at 11:15 AM

    Hi J-Canuck,

    Kei Ogura!
    His song Yumeshibai is the most played song in my
    home,car, or mobile phone..it cannot be helped! ha ha..
    but Umezawa version have soooo mystical voice,hard to beat his voice!

    See ya
    makoto-gawa

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  2. J-CanuckJune 18, 2012 at 8:48 PM

    Hi Makoto-gawa. Wow, you really know quite a lot of singers from Japan! I've only started discovering Kei Ogura via Facebook. Ogura's voice has this hypnotic quality, I find.

    Take care,

    J-Canuck

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