I've been a fan of Japanese popular music for 40 years, and have managed to collect a lot of material during that time. So I decided I wanted to talk about Showa Era music with like-minded fans. My particular era is the 70s and 80s (thus the "kayo kyoku"). The plus part includes a number of songs and artists from the last 30 years and also the early kayo. So, let's talk about New Music, aidoru, City Pop and enka.
Credits
I would like to give credit where credit is due. Videos are from YouTube and other sources such as NicoNico while Oricon rankings and other information are translated from the Japanese Wikipedia unless noted.
Monday, December 3, 2012
Yamadakatsutenai Wink -- Christmas, Christmas
This cute little ditty, "Christmas, Christmas", by Yamadakatsutenai Wink （やまだかつてないウィンク）is the final track on the album, "Yamadakatsutenai CD" (やまだかつてないCD) released in March 1991, although it was released the year before as a single. It got its fair share of airplay on Kuniko Yamada's（山田邦子） comedy-variety show, "Yamadakatsutenai Terebi". Unfortunately, there are only a few YouTube videos of the actual show and none of them have the Xmas episodes (August 2020:Merry Xmas! Look below). Yamada certainly liked to celebrate the holiday on her show with the cast all dressed up in Santa Red and White, and musical guests singing their seasonal tunes, including this one. Not sure if the real duo, Wink, ever covered it.
The song was written and composed by Senri Oe. It goes down like a mug of hot chocolate with a candy cane in it (well, not quite that diabetic).
Yamadakatsutenai Wink -- Christmas, Christmas
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