[78-L] Very western sounding Japanese dance band

[Kristjan Saag]

Amazed?
Jazz and western popular music was played by indigenous orchestras all 
over the world by the 1920's: India, Phillippines, Indonesia, China, 
Japan, Soviet Union, Turkey...even Canada!
Reminds me, once again, of the old joke about the typical British 
weather report: "Fog over the Channell - Europe isolated".
Kristjan


On 2012-03-18 04:02, David Lennick wrote:
> I was just about to put this in a batch of "geddemoudahere" records but I
> thought I'd sample it, and was amazed to hear a very western sounding dance
> band on Japanese Victor V-40256. Only the titles appear in western print..WAGA
> YUMA, WAGA UTA (male vocal) and GINZA KANKAN MUSUME (female vocal). Anyone able
> to provide any information about this?
>
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