Showing posts with label Katsuhisa Hattori. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Katsuhisa Hattori. Show all posts
Monday, November 3, 2025

Katsuhisa Hattori -- Final

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By Alvesgaspar via Wikimedia Commons Considering recent sports events in Toronto , my fellow Torontonians and Canadians at large may be feel...
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Saturday, September 6, 2025

Yoshie Kashiwabara/Miyuki Nakajima -- Nagisa Dayori（渚便り）

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  The last time I posted a Yoshie Kashiwabara（柏原芳恵） article was back in 2023 so KKP is due for a new one on the Osaka -born singer. Plus, I...
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Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Akira Nishikino -- Begin the Beguine（ビギン・ザ・ビギン）

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  "Begin the Beguine" is the old standard that was concocted by the legendary songwriter Cole Porter back in 1935 , and its vari...
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Katsuhisa Hattori -- Morning Breeze

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  Ahhh...yes. Morning on Deck 16 on the Harmony of the Seas back in 2017 . Sunny weather with a hint of a breeze...just the environment for...
Monday, February 19, 2024

Keiko Toge -- Beautiful Dreamer/Yume no Iriguchi（夢の入口）

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  I remember when the marvelous singer-songwriter Akiko Kobayashi（小林明子） came onto the music scene with her debut song and 1985 hit single ...
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Monday, October 16, 2023

A Tribute to Shinji Tanimura（谷村新司）

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  Singer-songwriter Shinji Tanimura passed away on October 8th 2023 at the age of 74. Most of us had only heard about his death late on th...
Saturday, April 2, 2022

Emi Shirasaya -- Kimi no Soba ni（君のそばに）/Mayonaka no Pride（真夜中のプライド）

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  Happy Saturday! Not too bad out there, weather-wise. It may be chilly but the sun is out and the room doesn't feel all that stuffy. We...
Saturday, November 6, 2021

Kazuko Matsuo -- Ammore Mio（アモーレ・ミオ）

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  In the first couple of decades following World War II when the people of Japan were starting to freely learn about the world again, the ...
Wednesday, November 3, 2021

Tatsuro Yamashita -- Boku no Naka no Shonen（僕の中の少年）

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  Well, it took me about six months after writing about the lead track, "Neo Tokyo Rhapsody" （新・東京ラプソディー） but I finally got my cop...
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Monday, October 18, 2021

Katsuhisa Hattori -- Futari dake no Umi（二人だけの海）

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  This is a short-but-sweet track from a soundtrack to a 1980 movie called "Koufuku-go Shuppan" （幸福号出帆...The S.S. Happiness Sets S...
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Wednesday, May 5, 2021

Maron Kusaka -- Boku no Mississippi（ぼくのミシシッピー）

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  Japan's annual Golden Week holidays came to a close a few hours ago and I hope that everyone there had as good a time as can be had un...
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Sunday, November 29, 2020

Bob McGrath -- Jingle Bells（ジングルベル）

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  This article was inspired from a talk that I had with commenter Scott earlier this morning, and I found out from him that Bob McGrath of ...
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Thursday, June 11, 2020

The Works of Katsuhisa Hattori （服部克久）

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Some sad news from the world of Japanese music in that composer/arranger Katsuhisa Hattori passed away today at the age of 83. His name ...
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Thursday, October 3, 2019

Katsuhisa Hattori -- Dream Avenue

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Currently in the not-so-common situation of being between assignments right now since my project manager has given me the heads-up on a s...
Monday, September 2, 2019

The Works of Mariya Takeuchi（竹内まりや）

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Well, we're finally here once again... Yes, it's September and this is "September" , the very first Mariya Takeuchi...
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Thursday, August 15, 2019

Ayako Sawada -- Michinori（径程）/Air Pocket（エア・ポケット）

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For a long time, I had known about the actress Ayumi Ishida（いしだあゆみ） on television but didn't realize that she was a singer, and certa...
Sunday, July 14, 2019

Chikuzen Sato -- Sunny Sunday Morning '09

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It's a very summery Sunday morning as I write this. The fan is already on here as things have become fairly stuffy in the old abode....
Friday, May 10, 2019

Katsuhisa Hattori -- Wadatsumi （海神）

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And here I thought that composer/arranger Katsuhisa Hattori（服部克久） was bitten by the easy listening bug just once in the 1980s . Uh.....
Saturday, April 6, 2019

Katsuhisa Hattori -- Kyodai Keiji（兄弟刑事）

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Last night, I put on my TV nostalgia cap and went through some old American TV themes on YouTube , notably in the detective show vein. A ...
Thursday, March 7, 2019

Katsuhisa Hattori -- Pizzicato Surprise

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OK, I gotta admit that this song has thrown me for a fair loop. In fact, it's gotten me so fascinated that I may need second opinions...