Last Sunday, I put up an article titled "Japanese Pop Songs: Female Names", celebrating the fact that kayo kyoku and J-Pop shared a tendency with Western pop music in coming up with songs named after women. Well, men's names have been used on both sides of the Pacific to title certain ditties over the decades, too. Although I couldn't find a whole bunch of male names for songs, I did find some more female names fronting those tunes so here is my additional list of female and male names.
(1980) Yellow Magic Orchestra -- Rydeen (雷電）
(1974) Hideki Saijo -- Kizudarake no Lola （傷だらけのローラ）
(1986) Akiko Yano -- David
(1970) Salty Sugar -- Hashire Koutarou（走れコウタロー）
(1973) Pedro & Capricious -- Go-ban Gai no Mari e (五番街のマリーへ）
(1973) Pedro & Capricious -- Johnny e no Dengon （ジョニイへの伝言）
Yellow Magic Orchestra -- Rydeen (雷電) is timeless and cool! I could see it being used as the BGM or even theme music for some hero or Anime Character. Those two tracks by the Pedro & Capricious are something special, too!
ReplyDeleteI never saw the opening ceremonies for the Tokyo Olympics because I was so unhappy with COVID and how it affected the Games. I would have loved to have heard "Rydeen" being performed there. Chick Norman provided an even more epic version of the song in tribute to 2020.
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Thanks for the LINK!
DeleteI found some others exemples in my musical library : "Paul", from Ken Hirai, "Candy" from Naoko Gushima, 'Charlotte" from The Eastern Gang, "Kanashimi no Jody" from Tatsuro Yamashita, "Cathy" from Hitomi Tohyama, "52nd Street / Akiko" and "Elena" from Toshiki Kadomatsu. ; )
ReplyDeleteHello, Francois and thank you very much for your name contributions. I should have known about "Kanashimi no Jody" from Tats. I was even reminded of "Watashi no Francoise" by Yumi Arai from looking at your name. :)
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