[78-L] Very western sounding Japanese dance band

[David Lennick]

By the way, some posters seem to find me astonished to find western sounding 
dance music on a Japanese 78, and their tone essentially accuses me of being a 
musical chauvinist. You should know me better than that. I auditioned a 78 that 
had all Japanese printing on the labels, except for two transliterated titles, 
so I was expecting Japanese music. Jeez, people, I know there's good dance 
music to be found in every country!

dl

On 3/17/2012 11:25 PM, Taylor Bowie wrote:
> I've found stuff like that as well,  David.  And there are some posts on
> YouTube of Japanese stuff going back to the late 20s which is totally
> Western dance band in concept...and a lot of it's really good!
>
> Speaking of Japanese stuff,  I recently got an American Columbia pressing of
> the ever-popular Tokyo Boogie Woogie...got to be a lot more rare than the
> Japanese issue!
>
> Taylor
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Lennick"<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> To: "78L"<78-L at 78online.com>
> Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2012 8:02 PM
> Subject: [78-L] Very western sounding Japanese dance band
>
>
>> 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