''Sukiyaki and Other Japanese Hits'' is an album by Kyu Sakamoto released in 1963 in the U.S. by

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. All of the songs on the album are sung in Japanese and feature the title track, a #1 hit in the U.S. for three weeks in 1963, and peaking at #6 in the UK when issued by EMI on its HMV label. The 'b'-side, "Anoko No Namaewa Nantenkana", and a cover of "Good Timin'", a hit in 1960 for R&B singer Jimmy Jones, in both the US and the UK. The Japanese text on the box translates as "gunpowder".

Track listing

;Side one # Ue o muite arukō (Sukiyaki) # Tsun Tsun Bushi (The Tsun Tsun Song) # Hitoribocchi No Futari (The Lonesome Two) # Kyu-chan Ondo (The Kyu-Chan Folk March Song) # Mo Hitori No Boku (It's Just Not the Real Me) # Good Timin' ;Side two # Boku No Hoshi (My Star) # Kiminanka Kiminanka (I Couldn't Care for You, Not You, Not You!) # Kyu-chan No Zuntatatta (The Zuntatatta Song) # Hige No Uta (My First Whisker) # Goodbye, Joe # Anoko No Namaewa Nantenkana (I Wonder What Her Name Is)

Personnel

*1-1, 1-3, 2-2, 2-4, 2-6 ( Rokusuke Ei/ Hachidai Nakamura); 1-2 ( Kyu Sakamoto/Trad, arr Hiroaki "Tessho" Hagiwara); 1-4, 2-3 ( Yukio Aoshima/ Danny Iida); 1-5 (Yukio Aoshima/Hachidai Nakamura); 1-6 (

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/ Kenji Sazanami); 2-1 ( Yoji Yamada/Danny Iida); 2-5 (Hans-Artur Wittstatt/ Günter Loose/ Norman Newell/Kenji Sazanami) *recorded in Tokyo by Koji Kusano *produced in the U.S.A. by Dave Dexter, Jr. *catalog no. T 10349

References

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