I'm not sure whether this gimmick would raise the ratings for the annual Kohaku Utagassen (Edition No. 75 is due in a couple of weeks) any, but I've only just noticed that one genre that hasn't really been represented in the New Year's Eve special on NHK has been Group Sounds. Yes, perhaps the original fans for bands such as Ox and The Tigers are septuagenarians now but I know that surviving members of those groups have periodically shown up on music programs to perform their hits to good applause. Anyways, that's enough from me.
Something else that I don't see a whole lot of regarding Group Sounds is vintage footage of those bands back when they were young and long-haired. However, I did luck out with The Golden Cups（ザ・ゴールデン・カップス）, which I haven't written about in quite a while...at least not since 2016 when I posted an article about their June 1967 debut single "Itoshi no Jezebel" (いとしのジザベル).
I came across the above video for one of their cover songs, the fairly bristling "I'm So Glad". Apparently, according to one commenter for the video, the footage comes from the band documentary movie "The Golden Cups ~ One More Time"...complete with go-go dancers and in-and-out camera bobbing. The video is also cited as being from 1968 although the band website has listed a recording of "I'm So Glad" on their live album "Super Live Session" as a 1969 release.
"I'm So Glad" was released by the British rock group Cream as a track on their September 1966 debut album "Fresh Cream". On the Wikipedia article for the song, it's been categorized as an electric blues rock tune. Meanwhile, even Cream's song is itself a cover of the original Delta blues tune by Skip James in 1931.
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