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Tōmei Ningen (Pink Lady Song)
is Pink Lady's ninth single release, and their eighth number-one hit on the Oricon charts. The single sold 1,150,000 copies, and spent four weeks at number one. According to Oricon, this was the sixth best selling single from 1978. A re-recorded version of the song was included on the 2-disc greatest hits release, ''INNOVATION'', released in December 2010. The B-side was the theme song for the TBS puppet show . Track listing (7" vinyl) All lyrics are written by Yū Aku; all music is composed and arranged by Shunichi Tokura. Chart positions Cover versions * Trasparenza covered the song in their 2002 album ''Pink Lady Euro Tracks''. * ManaKana recorded a cover version for the 2009 Pink Lady/Yū Aku tribute album ''Bad Friends is a 2009 tribute album, is kade from , which translates to "Bad friend" and is the origin of Yū Aku's name. The final track, "Kawahara no Ishikawa Goemon" was originally recorded by Eiichi Ohtaki (under the pseudonym "Niagara Fallin' Stars") o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pink Lady (duo)
are a Japanese female pop music duo of the late 1970s and early 1980s, featuring Mie (Mitsuyo Nemoto, born March 9, 1958) and Keiko Masuda (formerly Kei, born September 2, 1957). In Japan, they are remembered for a run of pop-chart hits from roughly 1976 to 1979, but in the United States, they are best known for their short-lived 1980 NBC TV variety show '' Pink Lady'', later released on DVD under the title ''Pink Lady and Jeff.'' Pink Lady is one of only two Japanese artists to have reached the ''Billboard'' Top 40, hitting No. 37 with the single " Kiss in the Dark"; the other was Kyu Sakamoto with the original Japanese-language version of " Sukiyaki". They are also the first Japanese act ever to have performed in Seoul, South Korea, in November 1980. In June 1979, ''Billboard'' stated the duo had sales of over 72 million in Japan, and stated in September 1980 that Pink Lady's singles had grossed over 40 million, their album releases over 25 million, and their TV appearance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monkey King
The Monkey King, also known as Sun Wukong ( zh, t=孫悟空, s=孙悟空, first=t) in Mandarin Chinese, is a legendary mythical figure best known as one of the main characters in the 16th-century Chinese novel ''Journey to the West'' ( zh, t=西遊記, s=西游记, first=t) and many later stories and adaptations. In ''Journey to the West'', Sun Wukong is a monkey born from a stone who acquires supernatural powers through Taoist practices. After rebelling against heaven, he is imprisoned under a mountain by the Buddha. After five hundred years, he accompanies the monk Tang Sanzang (唐三藏) and two other disciples on a journey to get back Buddhist sutras from the West (India), where Buddha and his followers dwell. Sun Wukong possesses many abilities. He has amazing strength and is able to support the weight of two heaven mountains on his shoulders while running "with the speed of a meteor". He is extremely fast, able to travel 108,000 li (54,000 km, 34,000 mi) in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Songs With Lyrics By Yū Aku
A song is a musical composition intended to be performed by the human voice. This is often done at distinct and fixed pitches (melodies) using patterns of sound and silence. Songs contain various forms, such as those including the repetition and variation of sections. Written words created specifically for music, or for which music is specifically created, are called lyrics. If a pre-existing poem is set to composed music in classical music it is an art song. Songs that are sung on repeated pitches without distinct contours and patterns that rise and fall are called chants. Songs composed in a simple style that are learned informally "by ear" are often referred to as folk songs. Songs that are composed for professional singers who sell their recordings or live shows to the mass market are called popular songs. These songs, which have broad appeal, are often composed by professional songwriters, composers, and lyricists. Art songs are composed by trained classical composers f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oricon Weekly Number-one Singles
This is a list of songs that have peaked at number-one on the Oricon Singles Chart, the preeminent singles chart in Japan, which was created in 1967, and monitors the number of physical single purchases of the most popular singles. 1960s and 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s See also * List of best-selling singles in Japan * List of Oricon number-one albums * Oricon , established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music. It started as, which was founded by Sōkō Koike in Nov ... {{Number-one singles in Japan Japanese music-related lists Lists of number-one songs in Japan Oricon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Disco Songs
Disco is a genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the 1970s from the United States' urban nightlife scene. Its sound is typified by four-on-the-floor beats, syncopated basslines, string sections, brass and horns, electric piano, synthesizers, and electric rhythm guitars. Disco started as a mixture of music from venues popular with Italian Americans, Hispanic and Latino Americans and Black Americans "'Broadly speaking, the typical New York discothèque DJ is young (between 18 and 30) and Italian,' journalist Vince Lettie declared in 1975. ..Remarkably, almost all of the important early DJs were of Italian extraction .. Italian Americans have played a significant role in America's dance music culture .. While Italian Americans mostly from Brooklyn largely created disco from scratch .." in Philadelphia and New York City during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Disco can be seen as a reaction by the 1960s counterculture to both the dominance of rock music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese-language Songs
is spoken natively by about 128 million people, primarily by Japanese people and primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language. Japanese belongs to the Japonic or Japanese- Ryukyuan language family. There have been many attempts to group the Japonic languages with other families such as the Ainu, Austroasiatic, Koreanic, and the now-discredited Altaic, but none of these proposals has gained widespread acceptance. Little is known of the language's prehistory, or when it first appeared in Japan. Chinese documents from the 3rd century AD recorded a few Japanese words, but substantial Old Japanese texts did not appear until the 8th century. From the Heian period (794–1185), there was a massive influx of Sino-Japanese vocabulary into the language, affecting the phonology of Early Middle Japanese. Late Middle Japanese (1185–1600) saw extensive grammatical changes and the first appearance of European loanwords. The basis of the standard dialect moved f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pink Lady (band) Songs
Pink Lady or The Pink Lady may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''The Pink Lady'' (musical), a 1911 musical by Ivan Caryll * ''Pink Lady'' (art), a short-lived 1966 painting on a rock face near Malibu, California * Pink Lady (duo), a 1970s–80s Japanese pop music duo ** ''Pink Lady'' (1979 album), a studio album by the duo ** ''Pink Lady'' (1981 album), a compilation album by the duo ** '' Pink Lady Monogatari'', a 1978 Japanese anime based on the duo ** ''Pink Lady'' (TV series) or ''Pink Lady and Jeff'', a 1980 American television show starring the duo * ''Pink Lady'' (manhwa), a 2000s Korean manhwa, originally a web cartoon * The Pink Ladies, female companions of the T-Birds in the two '' Grease'' movies and their stage musicals * Pink Lady (card game), a variant of Hearts and Black Lady Food and medicine *Cripps Pink, an apple cultivar sold under the brand name Pink Lady *Pink Lady (cocktail), a gin-based cocktail, popular in the United States in the 1920s and 30s *Pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1978 Songs
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1978 Singles
Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd government). * January 6 – The Holy Crown of Hungary (also known as Stephen of Hungary Crown) is returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held since World War II. * January 10 – Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, a critic of the Nicaraguan government, is assassinated; riots erupt against Somoza's government. * January 18 – The European Court of Human Rights finds the British government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture. * January 22 – Ethiopia declares the ambassador of West Germany '' persona non grata''. * January 24 ** Soviet satellite Kosmos 954 burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. ** Rose Dugdale and Eddie Gallagher become the first convicted p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bad Friends
is a 2009 tribute album, is kade from , which translates to "Bad friend" and is the origin of Yū Aku's name. The final track, "Kawahara no Ishikawa Goemon" was originally recorded by Eiichi Ohtaki (under the pseudonym "Niagara Fallin' Stars") on his 1978 album ''Let's Ondo Again''. This version is performed by , which consists of then-AKB48 members Mayu Watanabe, Haruka Nakagawa, Aika Ota, and Natsumi Hirajima is a Japanese ''tarento'' and actress. She is a former member of the Japanese idol girl group AKB48. She was born from Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and la ..., plus Pink Lady member Mie. The song incorporates the melodies of the Pink Lady songs "Nagisa no Sindbad", "S.O.S.", "Wanted", "Carmen '77", "Pepper Keibu", and "UFO". Track listing ;CD ;DVD (Limited Edition) *"Kawahara no Ishikawa Goemon" (Music Video) :* Includes "making of" clips. References External links * {{P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ManaKana
and (born February 23, 1986) are Japanese identical twin sister actresses. They are mostly collectively referred to as . They were born in Osaka, Osaka. Mana is the older one, born 7 minutes before Kana. History *They debuted at the age of 5, appearing in television commercials. *In 1996, they appeared in the Asadora '' Futarikko'', playing the main twin characters as children. *In March 2008, both graduated from Kwansei Gakuin University. *In 2008, they starred in the Asadora ''Dandan'' about twins separated in infancy. Mana played a Shimane Prefecture school girl who loves to play in a rock band. Kana played a maiko from Kyoto Prefecture. Discography ManaKana # (1997.03.20) # (1997.08.21) # (1998.07.01) # (1998.07.01) # (1998.07.18) # (2007.01.31) #Fighting Girl (2007.09.19) # (2008.01.30) External linksOfficial websiteManaKanaon Universal Music Group Universal Music Group N.V. (often abbreviated as UMG and referred to as just Universal Music) is a Dutch– American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo Broadcasting System
formerly is a Japanese media and licensed broadcasting holding company. It is the parent company of the television network and radio network . It has a 28-affiliate television network called JNN (Japan News Network), as well as a 34-affiliate radio network called JRN (Japan Radio Network). TBS produced the game show ''Takeshi's Castle'' and has also broadcast the ''Ultra Series'' programs and '' Sasuke'' (''Ninja Warrior''), whose format would inspire similar programs outside Japan. TBS is a member of the Mitsui ''keiretsu'' and has substantial relations with The Mainichi Newspapers Co. despite the Mainichi's lack of shareholding. History * May 1951 - was founded in Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. * December 25, 1951 - KRT started radio broadcasting (1130 kHz, 50 kW, until July 1953) from Yurakucho, Chiyoda, Tokyo, and the frequency changed to 950 kHz. * April 1955 - KRT started TV broadcasting (JOKR-TV, Channel 6) from Akasaka-Hitotsukicho, M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
