Showing posts with label Eisaku Ohkawa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eisaku Ohkawa. Show all posts
Sunday, April 7, 2024

Bonnie Tyler -- Total Eclipse of the Heart

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  Well, this is for the billions of people outside of North America who may not be aware of it, but tomorrow, there will be a total eclipse...
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Sunday, December 11, 2022

Toshiro Omi/Eisaku Ohkawa -- Yuu-no-Machi Elegy（湯の町エレジー）

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  I've been to individual onsen （温泉） but alas, I never had the opportunity to really experience a full-blown onsen town or yuu-no-machi...
Thursday, July 29, 2021

Eisaku Ohkawa -- Yanagawa no Hito（柳川の人）

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  Earlier today, I did my weekly ROY article featuring Randy Newman's "I Love L.A." and one kayo that hit No. 3 on Oricon i...

Randy Newman -- I Love L.A.

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  Welcome to another Reminiscings of Youth with your cordial host, J-Canuck . On today's article, we take a look at what has been deter...
Thursday, December 17, 2020

Spandau Ballet -- True

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  I've got another ROY article for you tonight. In the 1980s during my university years as my friends and I hit the discos in downtown ...
Tuesday, May 12, 2020

The Police -- Every Breath You Take/Righeira -- No Tengo Dinero

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Rather interesting duo for this particular Reminiscings of Youth article. How did this all come about? Well, actually, I had been ...
Thursday, January 31, 2019

Akira Matsudaira -- Circus no Uta (サーカスの唄)

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Quite some time ago (it was meant to be "Not too long ago", but I got a horrendous writer's block for this article at that ...
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Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Noboru Kirishima & Misao Matsubara (Miss Columbia)/Chiyoko Shimakura/Eisaku Ohkawa -- Mennai Chidori（目ン無い千鳥）

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No "Uta Con" （うたコン） last night so I kinda need my dollop of enka right now. There's been quite a lot of articles going up o...
Saturday, November 18, 2017

The Works of Masao Koga (古賀政男) Part 2: The Post War Era

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Continuing on my Masao Koga (古賀政男)  tribute, Part 2 here will be focusing more on his works after WWII, specifically those from the  1950...
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Friday, March 17, 2017

Shigeo Kusunoki -- Midori no Chiheisen （緑の地平線）

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https://www.flickr.com/photos/mommysaurus75/5504488400?ytcheck=1 by Angel Geisler Happy St. Patrick's Day to all of you folks sinc...
Friday, February 17, 2017

The Works of Toru Funamura （船村徹）

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As has been the case since I started "Kayo Kyoku Plus" , whenever I hear of a death in the Japanese music world, it's alway...
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Friday, January 2, 2015

Eisaku Ohkawa -- Abare Funa Uta (あばれ舟唄)

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As I've said before, 2014 had offered many good Enka songs. And I consider Eisaku Ohkawa's (大川栄策)  " Abare Funa Uta ...
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Friday, August 29, 2014

Eisaku Ohkawa -- Sazanka no Yado （さざんかの宿）

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Veteran enka singer Eisaku Ohkawa （大川栄策） always had that look as if he had retired from a previous career in the boxing ring. I've ne...
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