Let’s Go J-Sound!

Happy belated New Year! Many thanks for the nice comments we’ve gotten about Let’s Go J-Sound! in recent months. We’ve been neglecting the blog, but we hope to keep it updated a lot more frequently in 2007 and expand it’s focus a little to include news and other tid bits about Japanese music made between 1955-1985. We’d like to start updating Let’s Go J-Sound at least once a week or at the very least every other week, so please visit us more often!

We’ve gotten lots of requests from people asking us to repost some of the old songs we talked about here last year, so we decided to kick-start the new year by compiling all the tracks into a mini compilation for your listening pleasure. We plan on making it available for a month and after that we will remove the file and the songs will not be posted ever again so grab them while you can.

- Let’s Go J-Sound! 2006 Collection

Cheers!

I don’t know a lot about the Pinky Chicks, but I do know this six piece girl band made some fun music.

The band’s 1968 debut single for Victor was called “Yopparata Ojoosan” (aka “The Drunken Girl” or “The Drunk Girl”) and features what sounds like Alvin & the Chipmunks contributing backup vocals.

This odd, but cute tune tells a humorous tale about a girl getting drunk after she is stood up by a boy she was supposed to meet at a bar. Since the boy never arrives she decides to drown her sorrows with various alcholic drinks and becomes a “drunken girl” before the song is over.

Song: Yopparata Ojoosan by Pinky Chicks

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