Showing posts with label Yoshie Kashiwabara. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yoshie Kashiwabara. Show all posts
Thursday, September 10, 2026

Various -- I Only Want to Be with You

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  There are times when music critics and regular listeners totally agree on how good one particular song is. Of course, there are many more ...
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Thursday, May 21, 2026

Art of Noise -- Beat Box

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  I've already posted a number of Art of Noise articles in the past ten years as parts of the Reminiscings of Youth file here on KKP ,...
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Thursday, April 23, 2026

Madonna -- Material Girl

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  Welcome to the weekly Reminiscings of Youth for this Thursday . I heard that Madonna was coming out with a new album sometime later this...
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Monday, March 23, 2026

Yoshie Kashiwabara -- Shiawase Ondo（しあわせ音頭）

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  Listening to music all these decades and handling KKP for the past fourteen years, of course, I know all about those 45" singles and ...
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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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Thursday, March 20, 2025

Eurythmics -- Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four)

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Wikimedia Commons Nevil Clavain   George Orwell's dystopian "1984" (released in 1949 ) was required reading in high school. ...
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Spring Songs

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  The first day of spring supposedly arrived at 5:01 am this morning. It's not exactly warmer out there and in fact, it's looking d...
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Thursday, March 13, 2025

Gowan -- A Criminal Mind

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Wikimedia Commons Hector Sanchez For this week's edition of Reminiscings of Youth, I'm once again going into the Canadiana vault be...
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Thursday, November 21, 2024

Chaka Khan -- Through the Fire

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  A few months ago, my Reminiscings of Youth post was on Chaka Khan's funky-as-all-get-out "I Feel For You" from 1984 which...
Thursday, August 15, 2024

Katrina and the Waves -- Walking on Sunshine

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  I was reminded of this 80s hit because the song got covered as an instrumental jingle on one of the heavy rotation commercials during the ...
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Monday, November 13, 2023

Yoshie Kashiwabara -- Otome Gokoro Nani Iro?（乙女心何色?）

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  Well, yes, I am well aware that staying on tune was more of a helpful guideline rather than a hard and fast rule for an aidoru back in the...
Thursday, February 16, 2023

Bill Champlin -- Tonight, Tonight/Ray Kennedy -- My Everlasting Love

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  Welcome to another Reminiscings of Youth session. Last Friday , I put up an article on a 1984 duet between one of the best voices in Japa...
Saturday, November 26, 2022

Irene Cara -- Flashdance... What a Feeling

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from Wikipedia The name Irene Cara was on the Trending list on Twitter this morning, and usually when I see a name on that list, I think th...
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Saturday, June 4, 2022

Yoshie Kashiwabara/Mayumi Itsuwa -- Haru Gokoro（春ごころ）

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  Lest that I would dare think that the summer has finally arrived, I went outside in my thin T-shirt an hour ago to get the paper and got a...
Sunday, March 13, 2022

Yoshie Kashiwabara -- Café Bar Don Juan（カフェバー・ドンファン）

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  I almost forgot that March 14th is White Day , that supposedly Japan -only sequel to Valentine's Day back on February 14th when this...
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Friday, November 23, 2018

Yoshie Kashiwabara/Chika Takami -- Shinobi Ai（し・の・び・愛）

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By kismet, I guess this article could be considered to be a sequel to a couple of other articles with one being a slightly more distant c...

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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Friday, September 8, 2017

The Works of Toyohisa Araki （荒木とよひさ）

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According to Oricon via J-Wiki , the top five lyricists in terms of singles sold are Yasushi Akimoto（秋元康）, Yu Aku（阿久悠）, Takashi Matsumoto...
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Monday, February 29, 2016

J-Canuck's 5 Leap Songs

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Indeed it is February 29th 2016, Leap Day . In my view, we're in the midst of some rather unusual activities: we just had the Oscars ha...
Saturday, October 31, 2015

Yoshie Kashiwabara -- Jikan wo Kudasai （時間をください）

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https://soundcloud.com/235235r/l3kpjjsm9ywn I can't quite remember under what circumstances I ended up purchasing the audiotape of ...