Showing posts with label Junko Yagami. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Junko Yagami. Show all posts
Friday, September 18, 2026

Junko Yagami -- No!

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  I covered a number of tracks on the article for Junko Yagami's（八神純子） "Full Moon" way back in 2017 , but not all of them. Pe...
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Thursday, August 27, 2026

Dolly Parton -- 9 to 5

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Wikimedia Commons It's been a rather sad week for music fans overall. Last week, I posted a ZZ Top song for Reminiscings of Youth due t...
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Friday, August 21, 2026

Junko Yagami -- Sotto Ato kara（そっと後から）

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  Well, more than a dozen years following my article on Junko Yagami's（八神純子） seminal sophomore April 1979 album , "Sugao no Watash...
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Wednesday, August 5, 2026

"Summer" Songs

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By Muke Tever from Wikimedia Commons A little over a year ago, I put up "The First Day of Summer!" , an Author's Picks consist...
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Wednesday, July 22, 2026

Nagoya Singers

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Nagoya Castle by Base64 via Wikimedia Commons Last week, I posted up "Sagamihara Singers" in tribute to the fact that my hometown...
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Friday, June 5, 2026

"Telephone" Songs

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Infrogmation of New Orleans via Wikimedia Commons I can say that the above looks just like the first telephone that I ever saw in my apartme...
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Monday, May 25, 2026

Junko Yagami -- Yume Miru Koro wo Sugite mo（夢みる頃を過ぎても）

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  I've been covering individual tracks from Junko Yagami's（八神純子）February 1982 album   "Yume Miru Koro wo Sugite mo" （Even ...
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Friday, March 20, 2026

Junko Yagami -- Koi no Smash Hit（恋のスマッシュ・ヒット）

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  I only noticed this some minutes ago, but this article will become the 2700th such article under the City Pop banner since beginning ...
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Friday, February 13, 2026

A Few of Those Champagne-and-Caviar City Pop Songs as a Review

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  I've often referred to the Japanese asset price bubble which arguably lasted from around 1986 to 1991 . Commonly it's known as th...
Thursday, January 1, 2026

Perrey and Kingsley -- Strangers in the Night

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  I don't consider myself a particularly lucky man. I've never won a lottery nor did I ever find the love of my life. However, where...
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Thursday, August 7, 2025

Blondie -- The Tide is High

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  Welcome to another Thursday edition of Reminiscings of Youth . What I remember from the music video for Blondie's October 1980 hit ...
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Friday, June 6, 2025

Junko Yagami -- Tatoe Kanawanai Yume demo Kore de Ii（たとえ叶わない夢でもこれでいい）

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  If someone were to ask me "Who has been one Japanese singer who has worked in the largest variety of genres?" , I would answer q...
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Friday, April 18, 2025

Junko Yagami -- Ai no Honoo 〜THE FLAME OF LOVE 〜（愛の炎）

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  Always nice to welcome Junko Yagami（八神純子） back to KKP especially on a day of City Pop . As soon as I heard the first few bars of this part...
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Tuesday, March 4, 2025

Junko Yagami -- Ame no Kyuujitsu（雨の休日）

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  Now that we're into March here, there's still a lot of snow on the ground after that major storm a couple of weeks ago but perhaps...
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Friday, January 17, 2025

Junko Yagami -- Touch you, tonight/Miss Plumeria （Miss プルーメリア）

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  Incredibly enough, after nearly thirteen years of doing "Kayo Kyoku Plus" , I still don't think I have covered all of Junko ...
Friday, October 25, 2024

Junk Fujiyama -- Shoukei Toshi ~ City Pop Covers（憧憬都市）...Yes, I Finally Got My Copy!

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  Perhaps the above byline is a little longer and odder than usual but in my defense, I have to explain that all the way back in January , I...
Sunday, October 20, 2024

Junko Yagami -- Hachi-gatsu no Etranger（8月のエトランゼ）

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  Oh, the irony...it was just eight days ago that I wrote up about Hiromi Go's（郷ひろみ） "Hachi-gatsu no Etranger" （八月のエトランゼ...Aug...
Tuesday, August 13, 2024

It's Twilight Time!

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  It didn't take me too long to figure out that a lot of Japanese lyricists in the 1980s loved to pluck the Beatles' phrase of ...
Friday, May 17, 2024

Just for Fun...The J-C AI Gallery: Mariya, Miki and Junko Y.

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  Isn't that nice? Kayo Grace Kyoku has taken up a new hobby of creating her own art. Perhaps she has a lot of time on her hands. It wo...
Friday, December 8, 2023

City City Pops by J-Canuck

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  Looks like KKP AI representative Kayo is having her fun behind the wheel of a sports car. Pretty impressive if you ask me, especially con...