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In Japan, "Ue o Muite Arukō" topped the Popular Music Selling Record chart in the Japanese magazine Music Life for three months, and was ranked as the number one song of 1961 in Japan. In the US, "Sukiyaki" topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1963, one of the few non-English songs to have done so, and the first in a non-European language.
Hearing the song several times, Benjamin decided to bring it back to England. Due to concerns that the title would be too hard for English-speakers to pronounce or remember, the song was renamed "Sukiyaki", after the Japanese cooked beef dish familiar to the English. The new title was intended to sound both catchy and distinctive in Japanese ...
Sukiyaki and Other Japanese Hits is an album by Kyu Sakamoto released in 1963 in the U.S. by Capitol Records.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.
A group of Japanese residents of New York City who work in creative fields banded together to release a vocal recording of “Sukiyaki,” a Japanese song that is often considered iconic within ...
Kyu Sakamoto hit #1 in 1963 with "Ue o Muite Arukō", titled "Sukiyaki" in the U.S., becoming the first and only Japanese song to do so.. These are the Billboard Hot 100 number-one hits of 1963.
Their debut album, Now's the Time, which peaked at No. 96 on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, [1] included a cover version of Kyu Sakamoto's 1960s hit "Sukiyaki". The group's version of "Sukiyaki" peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and was certified gold in 1995. [2] [3] It also reached the top 5 in Australia and ...
Rokusuke Ei (永 六輔, Ei Rokusuke, April 10, 1933 – July 7, 2016) [1] was a Japanese lyricist, composer, author, essayist, and television personality of Chinese descent. Ei wrote the lyrics to the song "Ue o Muite Arukō", known internationally as " Sukiyaki ", which has been used in several English language films.
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