Hisashi "Kyu" Sakamoto (Japanese: 坂本 九, Hepburn: Sakamoto Hisashi or Sakamoto Kyū, 10 December 1941 – 12 August 1985), legally registered as Hisashi Ōshima...
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Sukiyaki (song) (category Kyu Sakamoto songs)
Walk"), alternatively titled "Sukiyaki", is a song by Japanese crooner Kyu Sakamoto, first released in Japan in 1961. The song topped the charts in a number...
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footballer Koki Sakamoto (坂本 功貴, born 1986), gymnast Kyu Sakamoto (1941–1985), pop singer well known for his song Sukiyaki in the 1960s Maaya Sakamoto (born 1967)...
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Hachidai Nakamura (section Kyu Sakamoto)
Nakamura later wrote many songs for various Japanese singers such as Kyu Sakamoto, enka singer Saburō Kitajima, and Johnny & Associates' first group Johnnys...
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Kyu Sakamoto Memorial Hall (坂本九思い出記念館) is a museum in the town Kuriyama, Hokkaido. The Memorial Hall was built in 1993 and is completely dependent on visitor...
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singer Kyu Sakamoto. Oshima was born in Tokyo, and is a graduate of Toyo Eiwa University. When she was 11 years old, her father, Kyu Sakamoto, was killed...
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24, 1947) is a Japanese actress and was the wife of Japanese singer Kyu Sakamoto from 1971 until his death in the August 1985 Japan Air Lines Flight 123...
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"Tomodachi", a song by Kyu Sakamoto, appearing on the compilation album Kyu Sakamoto Memorial Best "Tomodachi", a song by Maaya Sakamoto released with the...
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Sakamoto Kyu Monogatari/Walking while Looking Up - The Kyu Sakamoto Story (上を向いて歩こう-坂本九物語) is a biography based on the Japanese singer Kyu Sakamoto's...
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Romantics, The Chiffons, Little Peggy March, Jimmy Soul, Lesley Gore, Kyu Sakamoto, The Essex, Jan & Dean, The Tymes, Stevie Wonder (as ‘Little Stevie Wonder’)...
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while singing. Famous kayōkyoku artists include Hiroko Yakushimaru, Kyu Sakamoto, the Peanuts, the Tigers, Candies, Pink Lady, Seiko Matsuda, Junko Sakurada...
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Jonny Greenwood, along with music by Can, the Marketts, Minnie Riperton, Kyu Sakamoto, Neil Young, Les Baxter and Chuck Jackson. "Spooks" was released as a...
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) (1986) Roku, hachi, kyū no kyū : Sakamoto Kyū Monogatari (六・八・九の九 : 坂本九ものがたり, Six, eight, nine of nine : Kyū Sakamoto story) (1987) Mumei-jin mei-goroku...
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2008-11-20. 九ちゃんの歌 [Kyu-chan's songs] (in Japanese). EMI Music Japan. Archived from the original on 2009-02-07. Retrieved 2009-01-05. "Kyu Sakamoto". nippop.com...
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He was married to the author Izumi Suzuki, and was a cousin to singer Kyu Sakamoto. He was portrayed in Kōji Wakamatsu's film Endless Waltz by novelist...
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Kyu Sakamoto Memorial Best is an album by Kyu Sakamoto released in 2005 by EMI in the UK. The songs are the best known of Sakamoto's career. Miagete goran...
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Sukiyaki and Other Japanese Hits (category Kyu Sakamoto albums)
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...
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alike. In the Japanese version as popularized by Kyu Sakamoto and included as the 11th track of Kyu Sakamoto Memorial Best, the third line has a different...
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1960s, rockabilly influenced by Elvis Presley began to gain popularity. Kyu Sakamoto, who came from Japanese rockabilly, joined Japanese popular music. However...
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Tom Petty's "I Won't Back Down"), and "Sukiyaki", originally sung by Kyu Sakamoto and Written by Ei Rokusuke. Adapted from Billboard. Production Avicii...
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Vayas". "Sukiyaki" was originally recorded in Japanese in the 1960s by Kyu Sakamoto; Selena used a translation into Spanish of an English version of the...
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Janice-Marie Johnson and Payne. When recording their cover version of the Kyu Sakamoto song "Sukiyaki", from their third album, Twice as Sweet (1980), they...
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Marty Robbins Jimmie Rodgers Arsenio Rodríguez Kenny Rogers Bobby Rydell Kyu Sakamoto Washboard Sam Tommy Sands Mabel Scott Neil Sedaka Pete Seeger Johnny...
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Kome Club (米米CLUB) (5) Kumi Koda (倖田 來未) (8) Kyōko Koizumi (小泉 今日子) (5) Kyū Sakamoto (坂本 九) (11) L'Arc-en-Ciel (5) Linda Yamamoto (山本 リンダ) (5) Masaaki Sakai...
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The Kingsmen Kingston Trio The Kinks Kishore Kumar The Knickerbockers Kyu Sakamoto Lainie Kazan Larry Bunker Larry Coryell Larry Norman Larry Verne Laura...
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singers such as Kyu Sakamoto, The Peanuts and Mieko Hirota covered American songs at first, but they began to sing their own song. Sakamoto's 1961 single...
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also incorporating elements from "Sukiyaki" (1961) by Japanese singer Kyu Sakamoto. Due to the inclusion of the samples, Brown, Hachidai Nakamura, Rokusuke...
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40, hitting No. 37 with the single "Kiss in the Dark"; the other was Kyu Sakamoto with the original Japanese-language version of "Sukiyaki". They are also...
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"Principles of Lust" by Enigma "Twiggy Twiggy" by Pizzicato Five "Sukiyaki" by Kyu Sakamoto "Zendeko Hachijo" by Zenshuji Zendeko "Smack My Bitch Up" by The Prodigy...
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Scorpions "Wind of Change" 1991 14 Prince Nico Mbarga "Sweet Mother" 1976 13 Kyu Sakamoto "Sukiyaki" 1963 13 Gene Autry "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" 1949 12...
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