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  2. Ryūkōka - Wikipedia

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    "Blue Eye"), originally released as an English song, was released as a Japanese song. [44] In 1966, folk singer Ryoko Moriyama, a daughter of jazz musician Hisashi Moriyama, also released hit song "Kyō no Hi wa Sayōnara" (今日の日はさようなら, lit. "Good-bye, Today"). The Blue Comets' song "Blue Chateau" won the grand prix award at ...

  3. Noriko Awaya - Wikipedia

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    Noriko Awaya (Japanese: 淡谷 のり子, Hepburn: Awaya Noriko, August 12, 1907 [1] – September 22, 1999) [2] was a Japanese female soprano chanteuse and popular music singer. She was dubbed the "Queen of Blues" ( ブルースの女王 , Burūsu no Joō ) in Japan.

  4. Classic female blues - Wikipedia

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    Classic female blues was an early form of blues music, popular in the 1920s. An amalgam of traditional folk blues and urban theater music, the style is also known as vaudeville blues . Classic blues were performed by female singers accompanied by pianists or small jazz ensembles and were the first blues to be recorded.

  5. List of classic female blues singers - Wikipedia

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    All Music Guide to the Blues: The Definitive Guide to the Blues. San Francisco, California: Backbeat Books. ISBN 0-87930-736-6. Harrison, Daphne Duval (1990). Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s. New Brunswick and London: Rutgers. ISBN 0-8135-1280-8. Russell, Tony (1997). The Blues: From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray.

  6. Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair - Wikipedia

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    Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair" is a late-1920s blues song written by composer George Brooks and made famous by Bessie Smith. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In the song, a female narrator confesses the murder of a deceitful lover [ 3 ] and expresses her willingness to accept her punishment .

  7. Odetta - Wikipedia

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    These included Blues Everywhere I Go, a 2000 Grammy-nominated blues/jazz band tribute album to the great lady blues singers of the 1920s and 1930s; Looking for a Home, a 2002 W.C. Handy Award-nominated band tribute to Lead Belly; and the 2007 Grammy-nominated Gonna Let It Shine, a live album of gospel and spiritual songs supported by Seth ...

  8. Kayōkyoku - Wikipedia

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    Johnny's male solo singer Masahiko Kondō also became popular and his song "Orokamono" won the 29th Japan Record Awards Grand Prix Award in 1987. The music genre kayōkyoku is regarded as a base of another genre "J-pop". [7] In the 1980s, a part of Japanese idol was independent from kayōkyoku and associated with Japanese rock musicians. [6]

  9. The Japanese Sandman - Wikipedia

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    "The Japanese Sandman" is a song from 1920, composed by Richard A. Whiting and with lyrics by Raymond B. Egan. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The song was first popularized in vaudeville by Nora Bayes , and then sold millions of copies as the B-side for Paul Whiteman 's song " Whispering ".