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Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Oricon Top 10 Singles Of 1976

1.  Masato Shimon                      Oyoge! Taiyaki-kun
2.  Daniel Boone                         Beautiful Sunday
3.  Harumi Miyako                       Kita no Yado Kara
4.  Hiromi Ohta                            Momen no Handerchief
5.  Yuriko Futaba                        Kishibe no Haha
6.  Masatoshi Nakamura               Oretachi no Tabi
7.  Teruhiko Aoi                          Anata Dake wo
8.  Momoe Yamaguchi                  Yokosuka Story
9.  Akira Inaba                            Wakatte Kudasai
10. Yumi Arai                             Ano Hi ni Kaeritai

A really big No. 1 at the top since "Oyoge! Taiyaki-kun", the children's song about an escaped Japanese pastry managed to become the most successful tune in Oricon history, a record that it apparently still holds to this day. The No. 2 of the year, "Beautiful Sunday" had a little less than half of the sales that the Taiyaki got.

Still, there were plenty of worthy songs in the Top 10. The No. 3 song and the top enka song of the year by Harumi Miyako is a wistful and bittersweet tune of a woman who's lost her man, and "Momen no Handkerchief" by Hiromi Ohta is an evergreen favourite that often gets on those TV retrospectives on kayo kyoku. Momoe-chan's "Yokosuka Story" was another classic and coming up at No. 10 was this bossa-tinged tune by the daughter of a Tokyo draper. I wonder whatever happened to her.



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  1. ALJuly 16, 2023 at 2:06 AM

    Apparently there is a Japanese version of Beautiful Sunday. I have heard it at Hawaii-style Obon festivals - like this https://youtu.be/BFeGoPgtOxY

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    1. J-CanuckJuly 16, 2023 at 11:06 AM

      Hi, AL. Thanks for your comments. By chance, are you from Hawaii itself? I have a good friend who hails from the Aloha State. If I'm not mistaken, I think the band Godiego did their own cover version of the Boone hit.

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  2. ALJuly 16, 2023 at 1:24 PM

    I am from California. California's Obons have somewhat different song selection and rarely include this song. This is more of Hawaiian tradition.

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    1. J-CanuckJuly 16, 2023 at 1:46 PM

      Ah, I've also got another good friend who's from California who's writing for the blog sometimes. He's actually here in Ontario on vacation right now.

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  3. ALJuly 17, 2023 at 12:09 AM

    Nice, your friend gets to escape California heat wave - it was 90F this weekend.

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    1. J-CanuckJuly 17, 2023 at 12:18 AM

      Well, we did have our mini-heat wave a couple of weeks ago but things will be better this week.

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