In any case, I also enjoyed listening to the super cheerful "Hello!" which would represent the ideal English conversation student to me...bright and friendly and willing to speak the language. Katsutoshi Kitagawa(北川勝利)of the group Round Table wrote and composed this song which came out with Nakajima's 6th single "TRY UNITE!" in February 2012 (which peaked at No. 11 on Oricon), and I think there are some melodic similarities to some of the stuff that really genki singer-songwriter Kohmi Hirose(広瀬香美)put out a couple of decades earlier. From the reaction at the concert, I get the impression that "Hello!" will always be a crowd pleaser.
I've been a fan of Japanese popular music for 40 years, and have managed to collect a lot of material during that time. So I decided I wanted to talk about Showa Era music with like-minded fans. My particular era is the 70s and 80s (thus the "kayo kyoku"). The plus part includes a number of songs and artists from the last 30 years and also the early kayo. So, let's talk about New Music, aidoru, City Pop and enka.
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I would like to give credit where credit is due. Videos are from YouTube and other sources such as NicoNico while Oricon rankings and other information are translated from the Japanese Wikipedia unless noted.
Friday, November 6, 2015
Megumi Nakajima -- Hello!
In any case, I also enjoyed listening to the super cheerful "Hello!" which would represent the ideal English conversation student to me...bright and friendly and willing to speak the language. Katsutoshi Kitagawa(北川勝利)of the group Round Table wrote and composed this song which came out with Nakajima's 6th single "TRY UNITE!" in February 2012 (which peaked at No. 11 on Oricon), and I think there are some melodic similarities to some of the stuff that really genki singer-songwriter Kohmi Hirose(広瀬香美)put out a couple of decades earlier. From the reaction at the concert, I get the impression that "Hello!" will always be a crowd pleaser.
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