[78-L] Japanese Shirley Temple

Ron L'Herault lherault at bu.edu
Tue Mar 9 05:54:59 PST 2010


I'd like to hear that too.

Ron

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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?
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