[78-L] Very western sounding Japanese dance band

[David Lennick]

In this same batch was a French pressing on Le Chant du Monde of a song titled 
"Sombre Dimanche". Okay, that one was what I expected it to be, but not in the 
style that emerged from the disc..Gloomy Sunday, played by a gypsy ensemble.

dl

On 3/18/2012 7:21 PM, Taylor Bowie wrote:
> I know what David means.  On occasion it does seem like the list is a
> version of the old radio show "Can You Top This?"
>
> I enjoy musical surprises of all sorts...esp. records where I can't read any
> of  the language on the label.   That's how we learn stuff sometimes!
> Nobody is born knowing much,  and nobody ever learns it all.
>
> To quote the  woman singer on one of my Japanese  faves:  "Boogie-oogie!"
>
>
> Taylor
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Lennick"<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> To: "78-L Mail List"<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2012 3:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Very western sounding Japanese dance band
>
>
>> 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