Showing posts with label Tatsushi Umegaki. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tatsushi Umegaki. Show all posts
Thursday, May 7, 2026

Love Wings -- Fly Like a Bird（フライ・ライク・ア・バード）

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  I used to hear this a fair bit in English classes and anime : "I wish I were a bird" . Probably one of the great things to intro...
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Saturday, May 3, 2025

Char -- Kizetsu Suru Hodo Nayamashii（気絶するほど悩ましい）

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  When a song ends with the lyrics "Any love that's going well isn't love" , I can assume that this isn't a light and ...
Sunday, April 6, 2025

Chie Kobayashi -- Hotel Osaka（ホテルOSAKA）

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Wikimedia Commons by Zairon   The above is a shot of the Hotel Monterey Osaka . I've never heard of it let alone been there but it's...
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Monday, November 11, 2024

The Off-Course -- Yoake wo Tsuge ni（夜明けを告げに）/Utsukushii Sekai（美しい世界）

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  Happy Monday! A bit gray and cool out there so perhaps something a bit more contemplative might be nice to begin the usual work week. Befo...
Friday, May 31, 2024

Step -- Memorial Song（メモリアル・ソング）

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  This particular song popped up a mere few days ago on YouTube channel "Kimi no Station: The Home of City Pop", and usually it...
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Friday, March 22, 2024

Yutaka Kimura Speaks ~ Japanese City Pop Masterpieces 100: The Kingtones -- Touch Me Lightly

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  Number: 050 Lyricist: Chris Mosdell Composer: Tatsuro Yamashita Arranger: Tatsushi Umegaki From The Kingtones' 1978 album: "Resur...
Thursday, December 14, 2023

Ai Kawamura -- Passionata（パッショナータ（熱情））

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  When I first heard this song on YouTube some months ago and saw it being described as Italo synth disco , I initially thought that it was ...
Friday, April 21, 2023

Sky -- Kimi ni, Kurakura（君に、クラクラ）

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  Last fall, I wrote about this short-lived duo called Sky with  Eizo Kitazawa（北沢英三） and Takashi Morimoto（森本隆） through their 1981 song ...
Friday, February 10, 2023

Keiko Toda -- Kaiten Tobira（回転とびら）

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  Up to this point, I've only had a couple of songs in the Keiko Toda（戸田恵子） file: her 1983 City Pop tune "FADE IN ~ Youmei" （溶...
Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Crystal King -- Cecile（セシル）

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  Ahh...just a couple of more days before summer officially comes to an end for 2022 . I'm sure that there are many out there who lament...
Tuesday, March 15, 2022

Ikue Sakakibara -- Ikue Jishin（郁恵自身）

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  A few years ago, I never would have thought that I would have a single Ikue Sakakibara（榊原郁恵）album but in the past few years, I have been ...
Friday, November 12, 2021

Tatsushi Umegaki -- Kizetsu suru hodo Nayamashii（気絶するほど悩ましい）

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  Admittedly, I still don't have a huge grasp of singer-songwriter Tatsushi Umegaki（梅垣達志） and the songs which he has provided other sing...
Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Yuko Ishikawa -- Doyou no Yoru wa Party（土曜の夜はパーティー）

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  Well, as I was telling my good friend just now, I've set up the PVR to record this year's Kohaku Utagassen early tomorrow morning...
Friday, May 29, 2020

Tomoko Kuwae -- WHOSE WHO

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Over the decades, there have been some singers who have been seen as one-hit wonders such as Saburo Tokito（時任三郎） for the comic vitamin-d...
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Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Maiko Ito -- Motto Shinjitsu（もっと真実）

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Not quite sure whether this song is a mix of Ian Thomas/Santana's "Hold On" and Hiroko Yakushimaru's（ 薬師丸博子 ） "S...
Friday, June 14, 2019

Tatsuro Yamashita/The Kingtones -- Touch Me Lightly

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After all of the excitement from last night's final game of the NBA season, thanks to the Raptors , perhaps tonight should be a mello...
Sunday, December 9, 2018

Momoe Yamaguchi 山口百恵 – Koi no Hotline 恋のホットライン/ Möbius’s Game メビウス・ゲーム(1980) from Recca at Japan Top 10

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Hello, folks. J-Canuck here to let you know that a few months ago, I wrote about the Japan Top 10 podcast. Well, over those past few mon...
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Friday, November 23, 2018

Sumiko Toyohiro/Yoshie Kashiwabara -- Tawamure no Koi no Mama ni（たわむれの恋のままに）

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Commenter Mike gave me a tip back in April this year via my article on Yoshie Kashiwabara's（柏原芳恵）21st single "Saiai" （最愛） ...
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Sunday, April 8, 2018

Sawako Kitahara -- My Boyfriend（マイ・ボーイフレンド）

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A few hours ago, I received an e-mail via the Contact Form regarding the late aidoru Yukiko Okada（岡田有希子） who had committed suicide bac...
Sunday, August 13, 2017

Momoe Yamaguchi -- Sentimental Hurricane （センチメンタル・ハリケーン）

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Man, I really should be trying to get a copy of Momoe Yamaguchi's（山口百恵） "LA Blue" from 1979 . I wrote an article on this a...
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