Posted on 06/09/2016 8:47:33 AM PDT by simpson96
Rest in peace, Kyu Sakamoto.
Hope you enjoy. ”Sukiyaki”
Remembering those happy spring days / But tonight I'm all alone
.
I look up when I walk / Counting the stars with tearful eyes
Remembering those happy summer days / But tonight I'm all alone
.
Happiness lies beyond the clouds / Happiness lies above the sky
.
I look up when I walk / So the tears won't fall
Though my heart is filled with sorrow / For tonight I'm all alone
(Whistling)
Remembering those happy autumn days / But tonight I'm all alone
.
Sadness hides in the shadow of the stars / Sadness lurks in the shadow of the moon
.
I look up when I walk / So the tears won't fall
Though my heart is filled with sorrow / For tonight I'm all alone
(Whistling)
music *ping* (Kyu Sakamoto)
Good song from the era before our daily lives wee buried in frivolous technology.
Still a great song to sing or whistle when you are feeling down. I believe Sakamoto died in what is still the most expensive airline accident in history . . . a nearly full jumbo jet which slammed into a mountainside.
The one where the tail blew off and it flew on helplessly for hours before crashing? Scary stuff.
I thought it was about some kind of rice wine....
This song is an excellent counter example to any of those social justice warriors that claim the US in general was racist back in the 1950s-1960s. This song hit #1 for a while in some US markets, when you consider that less than 20 years ago we were in a brutal war in the pacific with the Japanese with them sneak attacking us and them committing all sorts of atrocities towards our soldiers during the war. That after pounding them into the dirt and beating them all the way back to the island of japan with two nuclear strike to end it, that a song in their language would hit #1 is quite a testament to OUR CULTURE being firm and fair but also forgiving.
How awful!
But what a legacy he left! I have a full CD album of Sakamoto’s songs with many others nearly as good as this hit single. One, titled Mustafa, is a celebration of how Ataturk turned a backward Muslim country into the modern state of Turkey. Something, sadly, that the present ruling elite is now working on reversing.
I remember that.
From the Wiki
Delayed rescue operation
United States Air Force controllers at Yokota Air Base situated near the flight path of Flight 123 had been monitoring the distressed aircraft's calls for help. They maintained contact throughout the ordeal with Japanese flight control officials and made their landing strip available to the airplane. After losing track on radar, a U.S. Air Force C-130 from the 345 TAS was asked to search for the missing plane. The C-130 crew was the first to spot the crash site 20 minutes after impact, while it was still daylight. The crew sent the location to Japanese authorities and radioed Yokota Air Base to alert them and directed a Huey helicopter from Yokota to the crash site. Rescue teams were assembled in preparation to lower Marines down for rescues by helicopter tow line. Despite American offers of assistance in locating and recovering the crashed plane, an order arrived, saying that U.S. personnel were to stand down and announcing that the Japan Self-Defense Forces were going to take care of it themselves and outside help was not necessary. To this day, it is unclear who issued the order denying U.S. forces permission to begin search and rescue missions.[citation needed]
Although a JSDF helicopter eventually spotted the wreck during the night, poor visibility and the difficult mountainous terrain prevented it from landing at the site. The pilot reported from the air that there were no signs of survivors. Based on this report, JSDF personnel on the ground did not set out to the site the night of the crash. Instead, they were dispatched to spend the night at a makeshift village erecting tents, constructing helicopter landing ramps and engaging in other preparations, all 63 kilometers (39.1 miles) from the wreck. Rescue teams did not set out for the crash site until the following morning. Medical staff later found bodies with injuries suggesting that individuals had survived the crash only to die from shock, exposure overnight in the mountains, or from injuries that, if tended to earlier, would not have been fatal.[14] One doctor said “If the discovery had come ten hours earlier, we could have found more survivors.”[23]
Off-duty flight attendant Yumi Ochiai, one of the four survivors out of 524 passengers and crew, recounted from her hospital bed that she recalled bright lights and the sound of helicopter rotors shortly after she awoke amid the wreckage, and while she could hear screaming and moaning from other survivors, these sounds gradually died away during the night.[
Sukiyaki is a fantastic Japanese dish. Alas, the American Japanese restaurants have removed the item from their menus.
We have Yaki nuki and terriyaki but no sukiyaki
I was able to be served sukiyaki at a place in Birmingham but I went there last month and the management and menu were different. Tons of sushi (raw fish aka bait) but no Sukiyaki.
Regards the song, I have recollections of Japanese singers performing it in Japanese restaurants at Fisherman's Wharf in the 1960s. More elegant time back then, no T-shirt tourist shops, all high-end restaurants. The song was a huge hit then.
Oh the memories that song brings. Thanks simpson96
When I was a child, there was a song called “Sukiyaki” by the group “A Taste of Honey”. I’ve never heard the Japanese version before.
The melody sounds very similar but the lyrics that you posted are different from the English version that I’m familiar with.
Confusing.
The first time I can remember hearing “Sukiyaki” was on the Far East Network of the U S Forces Japan in about 1965. They also played the Japanese version of the song. To this day, I love hearing it. It’s about all I liked about my three years in Japan.
I remember that! IT was on the top 40 for months! WLS in Chicago offered everyone a free translation of the song. So many people (including me) sent in for it the radio station complained it cost THOUSANDS of dollars for the postage. The never mentioned postage when they offered the translation.
But I thought it was back in 1962!
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