Showing posts with label Hiroshi Miyagawa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hiroshi Miyagawa. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 8, 2026

Naomi Chiaki -- Yoru e Isogu Hito（夜へ急ぐ人）

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  For those people like myself who's known singer Naomi Chiaki（ちあきなおみ） for her biggest hit "Kassai" （喝采） from 1972 , this song...
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Saturday, June 13, 2026

Hiroshi Miyagawa -- Teresa no Tameiki（テレサのためいき）

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  Going back to my youth, I remember those over-and-over reruns of "Uchuu Senkan Yamato" （宇宙戦艦ヤマト...Space Cruiser Yamato） , aka ...
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Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Yukari Ito -- Sixteen Cubes of Sugar（16個の角砂糖）

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Wikimedia Commons via david pacey   There was a scene in "Superman" (2025) when Lois Lane was pouring a ton of sugar into her c...
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Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Mari Sono/Mie Sono/Yukari Ito -- Kiichatta! Utacchata! Naichatta!（聞いちゃった！歌っちゃった！泣いちゃった！）

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  It was probably one of the few times that "Uta Con" （うたコン） showed an episode tonight which didn't have a particular theme fo...
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Thursday, August 22, 2024

Ernest Gold -- It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

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  When this movie hit the theatres in late 1963 , I was unfortunately yet to arrive on this mad, mad, mad, mad world for several more months...
Thursday, June 27, 2024

Hiroshi Miyagawa & Kentaro Haneda -- Uchuu Senkan Yamato Kanketsuhen Tehma Ongakushuu II（宇宙戦艦ヤマト 完結編 テーマ音楽集Ⅱ）

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  I have to give credit where credit is due and say that the above photo is from the online site "Streets of Toronto" . Somewhere ...
Wednesday, June 5, 2024

Hiroshi Miyagawa -- Main Theme of the Bolar Federation（ボラー連邦の大テーマ）

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  I've made my comments known about the history of "Uchuu Senkan Yamato" （宇宙戦艦ヤマト） , aka "Star Blazers" here in Nor...
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Monday, April 22, 2024

Mari Sono/Hiroshi Wada & Mahina Stars -- Nandemo nai wa（何でもないわ）

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  I was mentioning yesterday that I had discovered Harumi Miyako's（都はるみ）1982 single "Tokyo Serenade" （東京セレナーデ） while we were ...
Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Hiroshi Miyagawa -- Cosmo Tiger（コスモタイガー）

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  I remember buying these "Perfect Manuals" for the "Uchuu Senkan Yamato" （宇宙戦艦ヤマト...Space Battleship Yamato） series ba...
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Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Yukari Ito -- Suteki na Cappuccina（すてきなカプチーナ）

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  Last night on "Uta Con" （うたコン） , singer Yukari Ito（伊東ゆかり） appeared on the show. There was a brief montage of her career through ...
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Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Sachiko Nishida/Keiko Fuji -- Namida no Kawaku made（涙のかわくまで）

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  Although I realize that Sachiko Nishida（西田佐知子） had been singing (she's now retired) since the mid-1950s , I kinda pegged when this par...
Monday, September 25, 2023

Dark Ducks/The Peanuts -- Giniro no Michi（銀色の道）

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  Just in the last few minutes, I found out that actor David McCallum who had played the eccentric but super-sharp Dr. Donald "Ducky...
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Thursday, September 15, 2022

The Peanuts/Chiemi Eri/Lisa Ono -- Quizas Quizas Quizas（キサス・キサス・キサス）

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  Well, this all started from reading a tweet from Scott of "Holly Jolly X'masu" fame when he noted that a couple of days ago...
Sunday, August 2, 2020

Takenoya Central Heating -- All My Loving/Koi no Vacance (恋のバカンス）

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Yesterday, I wrote about "Itsuwari no DJ" （偽りのDJ） by the comic band  Daddy Takechiyo & Tokyo Otoboke Cats（ダディ竹千代&東京おとぼけ...
Saturday, November 23, 2019

Kyoko Yoshizawa -- Suttobe Seishun（すっ跳べ青春）

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I gather that it must have been a thing in the 1960s going into the 1970s that a lot of kayo seemed to have been arranged so that they ...
Saturday, November 2, 2019

Hiroshi Miyagawa -- Theme for "Zoom In!! Asa!"（ズームイン!!朝!）

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As a pre-pubescent kid, I once had a thing for morning TV shows. Yeah, it's a weird flex but just humour me for a paragraph. Maybe it...
Sunday, May 19, 2019

Nishi Rokugo Shonen Shojo Gasshodan -- Theme from "Curricula Machine"（カリキュラマシーンのテーマ）/ Kiyoe-chan -- Daisukitte Imi da yo（大好きって意味だよ）

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In the last year or so, NHK has been celebrating the fact that it has a hit information variety show co-hosted by an Osakan comedian and...
Thursday, February 15, 2018

Kenji Sawada -- Yamato yori Ai wo Komete（ヤマトより愛をこめて）

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I think "Kayo Kyoku Plus" readers who are also fellow "Uchuusenkan Yamato" （宇宙戦艦ヤマト...Space Battleship Yamato） fans ...
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Saturday, June 10, 2017

The Peanuts -- Uwaki na Aitsu（浮気なあいつ）/ Yokogao （よこがお）

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I guess if I had to come up with an overarching theme phrase for this article, it would be "All good things must come to an end...
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Saturday, October 22, 2016

Kazuko Kawashima -- Mugen ni Hirogaru Dai Uchuu （無限に広がる大宇宙）

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Yup, after all these years, I still have that poster of "Be Forever, Yamato" on my wall. When Toronto's legendary comic bo...