by fluppa » Sun Sep 06, 2015 2:50 pm
Kyu Sakamoto - Ue o Muite Arukō (Sukiyaki)https://youtu.be/xUA-DcW1lFc (1962)
"Ue o Muite Arukō" (上を向いて歩こう?, "I Look Up As I Walk") is a Japanese-language song that was performed by Japanese crooner Kyu Sakamoto, and written by lyricist Rokusuke Ei and composer Hachidai Nakamura. Ei wrote the lyrics while walking home from a Japanese student demonstration protesting continued US Army presence, expressing his frustration at the failed efforts.
In Anglophone countries, it is best known under the alternative title "Sukiyaki," a term with no relevance to the song's lyrics.
The song reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 charts in the United States in 1963, and remains to date the only Japanese-language song ever to have done so. In
addition, it was and still is one of the few non-Indo-European languages' songs to have reached the top of the US charts.
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