http://jsound.blogsome.com Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 11 Jul 2007 23:42:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Above: Bibari Maeda in The Face of Another 1966 Bibari Maeda is a Japanese actress as well as a talented pop singer. The first film she appeared in was director Hiroshi Teshigahara’s The Face of Another (a.k.a. Tanin no kao, 1966). It’s an amazing movie and happens to be a personal ... http://jsound.blogsome.com/2007/07/11/the-face-of-bibari-maeda/ The Peanuts with the Japanese action star Sonny Chiba in the ’70s There’s a new Japanese ’60s and ’70s Jpop group on last.fm that should appeal to anyone who enjoys the stuff posted in this blog. If you’re a last.fm member stop by and chat about vintage Jpop albums, various ... http://jsound.blogsome.com/2007/07/02/nihongo-a-go-go/ Sorry for the long delay in posts, but we keep getting distracted by other things and forgetting to update the blog. Here’s a sweet song by Betsy & Chris, who were a popular singing duo from Hawaii that made it big in Japan in the early 1970s. Betsy Curtis and Chris Rolseth ... http://jsound.blogsome.com/2007/06/02/betsy-chris/ The talented songstress Kayoko Moriyama was born in Japan on Feb. 23, 1942. She is often referred to as the “First Lady” of Japanese pop music, but she’s not very well known outside of Japan and I’ve had a hard time trying to to find information about her, but here’s ... http://jsound.blogsome.com/2007/02/17/the-first-lady-of-japanese-pop/ This great video features Ayumi Ishida singing her hit single Anata Nara Dosuru which is worth a look and a listen. The song was originally released in 1970 and is very pretty! http://jsound.blogsome.com/2007/01/26/anata-nara-dosuru-video/ 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 ... http://jsound.blogsome.com/2007/01/18/happy-new-year/ The cute Japanese singer and actress Ayumi Ishida was born in Osaka in 1948. She seems to have started her singing career in 1964 at the young age of 16. Ayumi recorded at least 23 singles with Victor in Japan during 1964-1967 and although she had some popularity with ... http://jsound.blogsome.com/2006/10/20/ayumi-ishida/ Shunsuke Kikuchi is a prolific composer specializing in incidental music for television and film. His music has set the scenes for a long list of anime, drama and period drama programs, as well as tokusatsu shows like Chôjin Barom 1 (aka Superman Barom 1), Denjin Zaborga (aka Electroid Zaborger), ... http://jsound.blogsome.com/2006/09/13/kikuchi-shimon-amazon/ Apologies for the long absence. We’ve been really busy this summer, but hope to start posting regularly again next month. A lot of people are probably familiar with the cute Japanese singing duo known as The Peanuts. The Peanuts were made up of twin sisters Emi & Yûmi ... http://jsound.blogsome.com/2006/08/27/the-peanuts/ Composer Hattori Katsuhisa has been a respected figure in the Japanese music industry for many years. He is most well known in the US for composing anime soundtracks for popular television shows and movies such as Crest of the Stars (1999) and Fist of the North Star (1986), but he’s ... http://jsound.blogsome.com/2006/06/17/hattori-katsuhisa/