Takeo Fujishima -- Ano Ko wa Itchatta（あの娘は行っちゃった）

In a way, this can also be considered to be an All-Points Bulletin article.

But first to explain, I found another old 45" in that bag of vinyl records some months ago, and it was of a couple of Takeo Fujishima（藤島桓夫）songs, one of which is "Ano Ko wa Itchatta" (There Goes That Girl) as you can see in the photo at the top. Playing it on the turntable definitely brought images of more than half a century ago out in the small towns along the seashore. The late Fujishima is singing about the woman he loves parting from him sadly as she gets onto that night train to somewhere else.

"Ano Ko wa Itchatta" was written by Yurio Matsui（松井由利夫）and composed by Kozo Masuda（増田幸造）. And this is where the APB comes in. I tried hard by looking it up in the JASRAC database, the search engines, the J-Wiki article for Fujishima but I couldn't track down exactly when this song had been first recorded. Even the record and the liner sheet itself didn't divulge the year, and the above video seems to be the only one of this particular song on YouTube. So, the best I could do was find out that lyricist Matsui had provided words for another Fujishima song in 1957, and though this is still a way-out stab at it, I speculated that songwriters often created tunes for singers in clumps within a certain period of time, so until I find out otherwise, I'm gonna go with the 1957 tag for this one. If any enka fans or Fujishima die-hards know exactly when "Ano Ko wa Itchatta" was released, let me know.