[78-L] japanese 78s

[Michael Biel]

Gene Baron wrote:
> I don't have a real answer for your question, but I can tell you that Tanko
> Bushi is a very popular Japanese folk song and dance (a coal-miner dance in
> which one mimics the movements of miners digging and carting the coal).
> It's possible the non-vocal side is more for dancing but this is 100% a
> guess.  Gene  gene.baron at gmail.com
>
>   
This could be a good guess because we see folk and square dance records 
like this all the time.  There were some American labels like FolkArt 
which specialized in it.  This allows square dance groups without a 
caller to use the side with the calls, but allows groups with a caller 
to use the other side with his own live calls.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com




> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 12:20 PM, neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com <
> neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Also have acquired a few Japanese (? - Asian of some flavor) 10" 78s.
>>
>> Both on Victor. I can read "Victor" and that's it, save for catalog and
>> numbers.
>>
>> One of them has a typed label taped on - "Tankoo-Bushi (with lyric)" and
>> thge flip says the same thing (melody only)
>>
>>
>> So what was the market for these that the the same tune would be
>> presented in a vocal and an instrumental version on the same record?
>>
>> joe salerno