Oldskool Japanese Music Thread (1920's-1980's)

[Saburo]

One of these days I'm going to upload the different versions of "Yozora" by Itsuki Hiroshi.  I swear the original vinyl version (circa '75) is wa~ay different from what exists on CD today.

Now... how do you make that YouTubey vid with the fixed picture?

[muppet]

N.S.P. with their March 21, 1979 release: 面影橋 Omokagebashi

[2012 June 10:First YouTube version went into the great void, so here is another clip:]

NSP　面影橋 {With thanks to penchanotohime}

[=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA1_eQ_YNMk]N.S.P　面影橋 {With thanks to old2008music1}

[Saburo]

Noticed my pay-cable J-station airs a 30-minute infomercial for "Enka Yume Gekijou." So I set the DVR timer to record in the early morning.

Checked it just now and found... "My Idol: Seishun Playback" being hawked instead. Hahahaha!

Oh well, it'll make for a good upload to YouTubey anyway...

[Saburo]

Your latest purchase:



Info here: http://mediafactorystore.com/my-idol--t-playback.html

Now, where the heck are my CoCo and ribbon gals?!!

[Saburo]

Uta Monogatari: on sale now!




More expensive than the idol collection, about the same as "Golden Kayou Kyoku.

[kolkol]

Hi Guys,

Thanks so much for posting all these wonderful links and keeping this thread alive! 

I've recently "discovered" Ichiro Kanbei (神戸一郎) on youtube, and am amazed at the man's voice, especially his earlier recordings. Would anyone here know where I could find more music by the great man besides youtube?

Thanks in advance! 

Kol

[Saburo]

Another great infomercial:



Less expensive: "only" four discs in this collection. Not certain if the "new music" really extended itself to the 1990s but whatever. Plenty great karaoke material here.

I also looked up that gal's J-Wiki page: she's an actual DJ, blogger, etc. What a cutie pie!

[muppet]

 late 70's ?  early 80's??
Ito ,Toshi  and Happy and Blue

[muppet]

Saburo's post on March 11 has a picture of Akiko Wada with her song from 1972, あの鐘を鳴らすのはあなた Ano Kane o Narasu nowa Anata
YouTuber okeihan1000 recently posted this clip of Akiko's award winning song:

[muppet]

There is a CM playing right now with Actress Ayame Gouriki for au (mobile phone) that uses a very nice tune. I was going crazy trying to find the original tune, which turned out to be "Le Marchand de Bonheur", by a vocal group from Lyon, France called Les Compagnons de la chanson.

The song topped the French pop charts in the first 6 weeks of 1960.

But how did this tune end up in a CM in Japan in 2012? Because of 芦野　宏  Hiroshi Ashino, a singer in Japan who dedicated his life to bringing French "chanson" to Japan. Ashino san, who passed away in February, 2012, at the age of 87,  appeared on NHK's ''Kohaku Uta Gassen" 10 straight times in the 50's and 60's.

His version of "Le Marchand de Bonheur" (The Merchant of Happiness) came out a few months after the original hit,
and was called 幸福を売る男 /Kofuku o Uru Otoko (The Happiness Selling Man)

[muppet]

With a very nice arrangement, here is 幸福を売る男 /Kofuku o Uru Otoko (The Happiness Selling Man) in the 2012 cm for au mobile phones. Ayame Gouriki is the pretty girl at the end of the cm.

[~Dan~]

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[~Dan~]

I was going to post the youtube link for this but the account was deleted.  I only downloaded it this afternoon! 2 more songs I've never heard her sing before!

Yamaguchi Momoe duet with Sawada Kenji - Love Is Blind (Janis Ian cover) / Dancing Queen (ABBA cover) (1977?)
http://www.mediafire.com/?xqdic0pbcae9qp1

[muppet]

Just bought "Super Hit Collection- Momoe Yamaguchi vol. 1"

16 very nice songs, including 冬の色　/ Fuyu no Iro (The Color of Winter)......

Still amazed how young she was when she retired, how much she accomplished in a few short years.....

[muppet]

Released in 1981, 'Kotoba ni Dekinai' (Words Don't Come Out) isn't quite sixties, but Off Course is a group from the 60's and 70's, so this song fits in to the Old School. Group leader Kazumasa Oda really had some trouble getting the words out during this 1982 Budokan live performance, but that is one of the things that makes live performances very special.............

オフコース ライブ 言葉にできない 1982年 {With thanks to Mechanical2009Y  }

[tennisanime1234]

 I didnt see this song posted here yet and its one of my favs so here you go.
 
Misora hibari - like a river flow

[jigenbakuda]

I know we talked about ishida ayumi a while back, but this is the first time I saw her in motion... oh my god... I kept muttering kawaii to myself. You see that skirt!? Thats swag in a bottle. This is a sexy classy chick. I am so in love with her, they sure don't make idols like they used to. That hand choreography... thats old school baby.





Edit:

Quick question for anyone who knows... Just when did idol chanting start? Cause these dudes are killing it in this vid, like they are pros... whistles and everything. And this was 84... that was when I was born! Looks like that is not just a current thing, its old school. Anyone can offer a bit of a history lesson on the idol chanting / cheering as seen in this vid?


Edit2:
tennisanime gets thanks for 2 reasons, posting and having an avatar of nocchi... may nocchism prevail!

[~Dan~]

Quick question for anyone who knows... Just when did idol chanting start? Cause these dudes are killing it in this vid, like they are pros... whistles and everything. And this was 84... that was when I was born! Looks like that is not just a current thing, its old school. Anyone can offer a bit of a history lesson on the idol chanting / cheering as seen in this vid?

I don't know when it started, but I can go earlier than 1984 - I've heard chanting in Pink Lady vids from around 1977,  and Yamaguchi Momoe vids from 1975.  Occasionally you get a shot of the people chanting and they're wearing matching headbands, and they have little plastic megaphones.

EDIT:

Yamaguchi Momoe - Natsu Hiraku Seishun (Yoru no Hit Studio, 1975.07.28)

This is one of the earliest examples of Momoe fan chanting I know of (I think).  From Yoru no Hit Studio back when the show had a studio audience (the show changed slightly in March/April 1976, and shows from after that have no studio audience although there's always plenty of guests to make things look busy.)
Quite a few shots of the fans chanting and the host even imitates them at the end!





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Also I've a feeling there might be chanting on some Ishida Ayumi audio from around 1969/70, but I can't confirm that until I find it.

[jigenbakuda]

I made a mix of older japanese songs (including some traditional Japanese music) and I invite you guys to have a listen.

Track listing
1 Ibuki 息吹 - Unknown
2 Fade out フェイド アウト - Izumi Kyouko 小泉今日子
3 Nile in Blue - Kikuchi Momoe 菊池桃子
4 Hatsukoi 初恋 - Murashita Kouzou 村下孝蔵
5 Kagami no naka no aru hi 鏡の中のある日 - Yamaguchi Momoe 山口百恵
6 Roppangi Lullaby 六本木ララバイ - Ishida Ayumi いしだあゆみ
7 Sotto ato kara そっと後から - Yagami Junko 八神純子
8 Shinjunku Eki kara 新宿駅から - Itsuki Hiroshi 五木ひろし (aka Matsuyama Masaru)
9 MASS - YMO
10 Dare yori mo kimi o aisu 誰よりも君を愛す - Wada Hiroshi and Mahina Stars 和田弘とマヒナスターズ
11 Tokyo Tasogare 東京たそがれ - the peanuts ザ・ピーナッツ
12 Gomen ne ごめんね - Kobayashi Akira 小林旭
13 Roman candle ローマの灯 - Nakamura Akiko 中村晃子
14 Ii ja nai no, shiawase naraba いいじゃないの　幸せならば - sagara naomi 佐良直美
15 Yoake no Scat 夜明けのスキャット - 由紀さおり
16 karappo no sekai からっぽの世界 - The Jacks
17 Edo Lullaby -Ensemble Nipponia


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[muppet]

A lot of great pop tunes are used in television dramas and films in Japan. And in the advertising world, a 15 second CM might grab the viewers attention simply because of a brief few seconds from a familiar song.

I have discovered a lot of wonderful songs and artists this way- find out the name of the song (on CM's they often print the name of the song for about 2 seconds at the bottom of the song), and then find an original version of it on YouTube....might be a group or artist that I have never heard of, or maybe a song by an artist that I know, but hadn't heard the song before.

So here we have a commerical with two well known actresses- Miho Kano (34 years old) and Makiko Esumi (45 years old) for lipstick...obviously the cosmetics company is targeting women of this age, and the music has a nostalic feel to it......

菅野美穂 江角マキコ CM ソフィーナ オーブクチュール 串揚げ食べても篇  {with thanks to autoxp005}