[78-L] Japanese Shirley Temple

[David Lennick]

Shirrey Tempre in phonetic Japanese. The mind boggles. I think it's time to ask 
around for this one. Sorry I hadn't noticed that you said they were sung in 
Japanese.

dl

Bill McClung wrote:
> According to the book, the songs were specifically recorded for this record,
> not from soundtracks.  The lyrics were sung in phonetic Japanese.  I assume
> it is a 78 because it seemed to be from the late thirties "at the height of
> her popularity."  The record pictures did not specify 78 or 33 1/3.
> 
> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 9:18 PM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 
>> No reason the songs couldn't have been lifted from soundtracks. Wasn't the
>> copyright in Japan only 25 years at one time?
>>
>> dl
>>
>> Bill McClung wrote:
>>> I was at a bookstore in Coral Gables today and found a book written by a
>>> collector of all things Shirley Temple.  Among the 250 pages of
>>> illustrations was the picture of a label of a commercial recording by ST.
>>> It is Japanese Polydor 2409 recorded "at the height of her popularity."
>>  The
>>> side pictured listed four songs in Japanese.  The text said that Shirley,
>>> who was very popular in Japan, had recorded Japanese children's songs and
>>> had sung them using phonetic pronunciations.  I don't know if this was a
>> 78
>>> or an EP.  Anybody ever seen this one?