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Group sounds (Japanese: グループ・サウンズ, Hepburn: Gurūpu Saunzu), often abbreviated as GS, is a genre of Japanese rock music which became popular in the mid to late 1960s and initiated the fusion of Japanese kayōkyoku music and Western rock music. [1]
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.
[2] [3] Japan, like many Western countries, experienced a beat boom in the 1960s as a result of the British Invasion, particularly in the wake of the Beatles' 1966 visit to the country. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Though the Japanese beat craze blossomed slightly later than in the West, it stretched well into the end of the decade, with groups continuing ...
1960s in Japanese music (3 C) O. 1960s in Okinawa (4 C, 2 P) P. ... Pages in category "1960s in Japan" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.
[1] [6] Surf rock, which had been popular in Japan since before the arrival of the Beatles continued to exert influence on the music throughout the decade. [1] [5] Bands typically sang in both Japanese and English. [1] Produced by Alec Palao, GS I Love You was issued in 1996 by Big Beat Records and is available on compact disc.
J-pop replaced kayōkyoku ("Lyric Singing Music"), a term for Japanese popular music from the 1920s to the 1980s in the Japanese music scene. [2] Japanese rock bands such as Happy End fused the Beatles and Beach Boys-style rock with Japanese music in the 1960s–1970s. [3]
Hisashi "Kyu" Sakamoto (Japanese: 坂本 九, Hepburn: Sakamoto Hisashi or Sakamoto Kyū, 10 December 1941 – 12 August 1985), legally registered as Hisashi Ōshima (大島 九, Ōshima Hisashi) since 1956, was a Japanese singer and actor.