Showing posts with label Taiji Nakamura. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Taiji Nakamura. Show all posts
Monday, March 23, 2026

Hiroshi Uchiyamada & Cool Five -- Futari no Midosuji（二人の御堂筋）

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  I haven't been to Osaka in many, many moons so my remembrance of the streets there is woefully lacking compared to my knowledge of som...
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Sunday, August 17, 2025

Los Indios & Silvia -- Sorezore no Harajuku（それぞれの原宿）

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Wikimedia Commons via Syced I haven't covered a Mood Kayo in many weeks on "Kayo Kyoku Plus" , so I decided to pluck one out...
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Thursday, September 26, 2024

Chieko Tani -- Hana no Joshikou Kazoe Uta（花の女子高数え歌）

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  Dang! This song really gets funky considering that it has nothing to do with the cops or any street-level shenanigans in Shinjuku . "...
Friday, August 2, 2024

Masumi Okada -- Tomadoi（とまどい）

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  The above photo is one that I've posted only once and that was back in the late summer of 2021 when I wrote up the article for aidoru ...
Sunday, April 21, 2024

Mitsuo Sagawa -- Wakare no Toki ga Kita（別れの時が来た）

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  I only read it on the Yahoo Japan news blotter last night just as I was about to call it a night, but unfortunately singer and actor Mits...
Saturday, January 27, 2024

Akemi Ayu (Keiko Toda) -- Guitar wo Hiite yo（ギターをひいてよ）

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  A little over a couple of years ago, I posted up an article about a song by actress/singer and seiyuu Keiko Toda（戸田恵子） when she had first ...
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Saturday, August 12, 2023

Keiko Ishihara -- Yukue Fuumei（行方不明）

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  I have to admit that this is truly an odd tune. And it doesn't just start and stop with the title "Yukue Fuumei" (Whereabou...
Thursday, August 3, 2023

Hide & Rosanna -- Ai wa Kizutsukiyasuku（愛は傷つきやすく）

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  In the most recent ROY article that I've written, I noted that I didn't bother profiling the Top 3 songs on the August 3rd 1970 Or...
Friday, December 23, 2022

Ryoko Yano -- Downtown de Tsukamaete（ダウンタウンでつかまえて）

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  Ah, Kamiya Bar（神谷バー） ...literally around the corner from the NOVA that I used to teach at in Asakusa . Despite its reputation, I only went...
Tuesday, September 13, 2022

Night Tempo and Takashi Hosokawa -- Kita Sakaba（北酒場）

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  I'd like to acknowledge and once again give my thanks for this lovely keychain with a younger Takashi Hosokawa's（細川たかし） handsome v...
Thursday, May 12, 2022

Ryoko Yano -- Harahara Summer Time（はらはらサマータイム）

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  I've got quite a few summertime kayo in the backlog that I am saving for beyond June 21st , but literally feeling that the hot season ...
Sunday, September 5, 2021

Chieko Matsumoto -- Boyfriend（ボーイフレンド）

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  Approximately a week or so ago, commenter Owl Chick let me know about an actress and a tarento by the name of Chieko Matsumoto（松本ちえこ） who...
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Thursday, February 25, 2021

Mayumi Shinozuka -- Papa wa Mouretsu（パパはもうれつ）

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  When I first heard this song, I thought about one fellow especially, and that was Kogoro Mouri（毛利小五郎） from the "Detective Conan"...
Saturday, December 26, 2020

The Works of Taiji Nakamura（中村泰士）

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  2020 has been a rough year for many reasons, a lot of them due to COVID-19 but it's also been a sad year in that a number of famous s...
Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Yujiro Ishihara -- Omoide no San Francisco（想い出のサンフランシスコ）/The Peanuts -- San Francisco no Hito（サンフランシスコの女）

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Last night, I had the opportunity to listen to Come Along Radio's latest Summer Mixtape and in what has become a custom, I enjoyed ...
Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Takashi Hosokawa -- Miren Gokoro（みれん心）

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With the slow retirement of a number of established enka /Mood Kayo personalities over the last several years, I'm still happy to se...
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Tuesday, January 8, 2019

Hiroshi Uchiyamada & The Cool Five -- Hiren（悲恋）

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Well, "Uta Con" （うたコン） isn't on tonight so most likely it'll come back next Tuesday. However, that means another week w...
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Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Ako Midorikawa/Mari Sono/Keiko Fuji -- Yume wa Yoru Hiraku（夢は夜ひらく）

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Looking at the cover for this 45 rpm record, I was rather intrigued by this picture of Ako Midorikawa（緑川アコ）, whom I had never seen nor h...
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Saturday, July 8, 2017

Junko Sakurada -- Watashi no Aoi Tori （わたしの青い鳥）

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In my last article, I was getting all sepia-toned and nostalgic for Namie Amuro （安室奈美恵） . Can you imagine how I must feel about the 1970s...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Mitsuo Sagawa -- Ima wa Shiawase kai （今は幸せかい）

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I was watching "Kayo Concert" （歌謡コンサート） last night. The theme was heartbreak ballads and they didn't fail to deliver with on...
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