[78-L] Very western sounding Japanese dance band

[Malcolm Rockwell]

Hawaiian music and/or steel guitar, as well.
Malcolm

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On 3/18/2012 3:18 AM, Kristjan Saag wrote:
> 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?
>>
>> dl
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