Showing posts with label 1954. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1954. Show all posts
Monday, December 22, 2025

Koji Tsuruta -- Uramachi Polka（裏町ポルカ）

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  The above is a shot of a menchi katsu （メンチカツ） shop on one of the back streets of Asakusa in Tokyo . One of my friends had recommended it t...
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Sunday, June 8, 2025

Dick Mine -- Ame no Sakaba de（雨の酒場で）

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  Just out of whimsical curiosity, I wondered about what the first Mood Kayo（ムード歌謡） to appear in Japanese music history was. With all of the...
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Wednesday, December 25, 2024

Bing Crosby/Barbra Streisand -- White Christmas (song and movie)

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  Merry Christmas to one and all! I'm hoping that all of you who may be reading this are enjoying December 25th with family and friends...
Thursday, December 19, 2024

Percy Faith/Lambert, Hendricks & Ross -- Deck the Halls

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  Well, for the fourth year in a row, "Kayo Kyoku Plus" has managed to reach 1000 articles in a year. I'm pretty sure that w...
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Wednesday, December 4, 2024

Snow Songs by J-Canuck

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  Toronto got its first snowfall this morning with a couple of inches expected by the evening. I'm not sure whether this is the beginnin...
Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Isao Hayashi -- Konpira Swing (金毘羅スイング)

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So, I recently joined the fan club of an early Showa singer-songwriter from King Records who was known for jazz and created works for Hachir...
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Sunday, March 31, 2024

Hachiro Kasuga's Early Kohaku Utagassen Songs（春日八郎）

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  A few days ago on Thursday , my fellow KKP writer and co-administrator Noelle Tham posted her "Noelle's Favourite Hachiro Kasuga...
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Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Harumi Miyako/Yu Sakai -- Yosakoi Naruko Odori（よさこい鳴子踊り）

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  For all of you enka fans out there, yes, that is indeed singer Hiroshi Miyama（三山ひろし） having fun at last year's Yosakoi Festival in Ko...
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Thursday, July 13, 2023

Michiya Mihashi -- Sake no Nigasa yo ~ Shin Souma Bushi（酒の苦さよ〜新相馬節〜）

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  There have been plenty of raucous kayo kyoku celebrating the fun of drinking with buddies but at the same time, there have also existed J...
Tuesday, January 24, 2023

Rie Takahashi -- Donguri Korokoro（どんぐりころころ）/Neko Funjatta（猫踏んじゃった）

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From clipart-library.com   Last night, when I wrote about the venerable children's song "Te no Hira wo Taiyou ni" （手のひらを太陽に） f...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2022

Hachiro Kasuga -- Uramachi Yakyoku (裏町夜曲)

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Omae ga baka nara ore mo baka  (If you're stupid, I'm also stupid) What an iconic start to a song, don't you think? I can relate...
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Saturday, January 9, 2021

Akiko Kikuchi/Yuriko Futaba -- Ganpeki no Haha（岸壁の母）

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  As I've mentioned in the past, enka and Mood Kayo can have a number of lyrical themes including the trial and tribulations of work , ...
Monday, April 27, 2020

Ichiro Wakahara -- Fukeba Tobu yo na（吹けば飛ぶよな）

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Happy Monday to you! Well, while knocking on wood most vigorously, it looks like things just might be turning a positive curve with the ...
Sunday, December 23, 2018

Pee Wee Hunt -- Somebody Stole My Gal

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One small riddle that I've had for many years dealt with Yoshimoto Kogyo （吉本興業） , the Japanese comedy conglomerate based in Osaka . Who...
Tuesday, November 6, 2018

Hachiro Kasuga -- Kosame no Eki ni Bell ga Naru（小雨の駅にベルが鳴る）

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The photo above is of Ito Station in Shizuoka Prefecture when my friend and I stayed in the small city of Ito for that one night four yea...
Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Atsuo Okamoto -- Kogen Ressha wa Iku（高原列車は行く）

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Tonight's theme on NHK's "Uta Kon" （うたコン） was trains. It's quite the meaty theme, actually, since Japan is indeed a...
Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Hibari Misora -- Hibari no Madorosu-san（ひばりのマドロスさん）

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Tonight's "Uta Con" （うたコン） reminded me that today is the birthday of the Queen of Kayo Kyoku , Hibari Misora（美空ひばり） . I thi...
Monday, March 12, 2018

Isao Hayashi -- Okosa Rumba（おこさルンバ）/ The Drifters -- Drifters no Okosa Bushi（ドリフのおこさ節）

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Happy Monday to you all! I was talking with Noelle the other day on her fine article describing her favourite kayo from the 1950s , and ...
Thursday, March 8, 2018

Noelle's Favourite Songs From The 50's

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Yeah, I know, Hachi , songs from the 50's are great! A few months ago I did an article about songs I love listening to from the 30...
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Monday, October 16, 2017

Takeo Fujishima -- Hajimete Kita Minato （初めて来た港）

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On the first Takeo Fujishima（藤島桓夫） article I wrote for the blog, I mentioned that the late enka singer performed a series of songs based ...