Showing posts with label Yoshihiro Yonekura. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yoshihiro Yonekura. Show all posts
Friday, April 10, 2026

Rie Ida & 42nd Street -- Koi no Arashi（恋の嵐）

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  Looking over the file for  Rie Ida（井田リエ）& 42nd Street , I was somewhat shocked to see that all of the six songs that I've featured...
Friday, October 13, 2023

Rie Ida & 42nd Street -- Blue Harbor Street（ブルー・ハーバー・ストリート）

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  It's been well over a decade since I was last in Yokohama . Would still love to take a stroll through the city at night (or day), espe...
Friday, June 23, 2023

Hitomi Tohyama -- Velvet Morning

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  Well, it's more like a snowy morning there. It was one of the relatively rare times that heavy snow got plopped onto Ichikawa, Chiba P...
Friday, September 30, 2022

Hitomi Tohyama -- 7 Course no Prologue（7 Course の Prologue）

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  My most recent Hitomi Penny Tohyama（当山ひとみ） article on "Heartbreak Calendar" was a little less than three weeks ago, and it'...
Friday, August 27, 2021

Hitomi Tohyama -- Baby, Baby, Baby

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  A penny for your thoughts...😋 This will probably be the first and last time that you'll ever read a City Pop equivalent of a Dad jok...
Friday, June 18, 2021

Hitomi Tohyama -- Cathy

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  I gather that with any country's popular music, there will be a fair share of songs that are named after women. Japan is no exception ...
Friday, January 8, 2021

Hitomi Tohyama -- High-Heel Dancer

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  Although I hung up my own dancing shoes decades ago in the name of good taste and sanity, I think that there are likely many folks out the...
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Friday, December 4, 2020

Rie Ida & 42nd Street -- Silver Airline（シルバー・エアライン）

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  Well, this time around, the gap has been considerably longer but allow me to welcome back Rie Ida（井田リエ）& 42nd Street once more to the ...
Friday, May 22, 2020

Hitomi Tohyama -- Another Day, Another Love

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Well, hello to Friday so we've got another City Pop day lined up. Last weekend, I decided to do pull another Van Paugam with the h...
Sunday, August 25, 2019

Rie Ida & 42nd Street -- Love Time Good Time（ラブ・タイム・グッド・タイム）

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Strangely enough, while I was listening to this song, my memories returned to this photo from my 2014 Tokyo trip. This is a shot of traf...
Thursday, April 25, 2019

Rie Ida & 42nd Street -- Party wo Nukedashite（パーティーを抜け出して）

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Found another winner on the "Light Mellow ~ Highway" disc that I would like to feature here for all of you City Pop fans on ...
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Friday, February 15, 2019

Junko Ohashi -- Another Day, Another Love

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Friday night is here. Time to unwind before the weekend is upon us. Perhaps something apropos with a glass of Bailey's Irish Cream. ...
Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Keiko Tohyama -- My Guy ~ Cafe Sign（マイ・ガイ）

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It took me the purchase of "Japanese City Pop" to find out that R&B singer Hitomi "Penny" Tohyama（当山ひとみ） even ex...
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Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Hitomi Tohyama -- Sexy Robot

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About a couple of months ago when we were on that cruise in the Western Caribbean , I didn't find much different with the layout of t...
Thursday, September 17, 2015

Hitomi Tohyama -- Door Goshi no Good Song （ドア越しのGood Song）

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I've always loved that cover of Hitomi "Penny" Tohyama's（当山ひとみ）1981 debut album "Just Call Me Penny" . The way...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Hitomi Tohyama -- Rainy Driver

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https://www.amazon.co.jp/JUST-CALL-ME-PENNY-%E5%BD%93%E5%B1%B1%E3%81%B2%E3%81%A8%E3%81%BF/dp/B001P4WYZ4 (excerpt only) NHK News is r...