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Datum vydání: 1.7.2013
Žánr ROCK
EAN: 0029667431323 (info)
Label: BIG BEAT
Obsahuje nosičů: 1
Nosič: CD
Popis - NIPPON ROCK'N'ROLL:
23 track CD. "Nippon Rock'n'Roll" documents the rise of Masaaki Hirao. Dubbed "The Japanese Elvis", he was one of the famed Rokabirii Sannin Otoko (Three Rockabillies), alongside singers Mickey Curtis and "Kei-chan", Keijiro Yamashita. In early 1958, the rokabirii buumu (rockabilly boom) was born, the first youth music tribe in the Land Of The Rising Sun. Rokabirii may resemble US rockabilly, but the Nipponese variation is a more diverse dish. Hirao and his bands covers of Eddie Cochran, Elvis Presley and Little Richard are not kitsch renditions, but raw, desperate rockers. Hear a Paul Anka makeover, but put through a rocking mangle; a smattering of jazz; a twist of New Orleans; and some Japanese folk songs with a greased-down quiff. American occupation a distant memory, these boys wanted to party. Country and hillbilly music was a mainstay of young Japanese musicians working the GI base and jazz café circuit of the 1950s. Following the runaway success of a Japanese cover of Heartbreak Hotel (Hirao's version here has dynamite in its teeth), demand grew for more of this strange, new music. The need was met with a huge gala, the Nichigeki Western Carnival, which showcased the new rokabirii groups to thousands of screaming teenagers. Wild footage of the concerts, alongside that of burgeoning radical student movements, put fear of a wave of delinquency into the heart of the establishment. The studio numbers here are hardboiled, with unkempt live recordings that really rock. Tough drums back up honking sax, in a pedal steel pandemonium with slap bass. In the words of Elvis: these guys "get real gone". The accompanying 20-page booklet features superb photographs supplied by Hirao, rare memorabilia and a scholarly 4,500-word essay by compiler Howard Williams, who also masterminded our earlier "Nippon Guitars" retrospective of Japan's first guitar hero, Takeshi Terauchi.
01. LAWDY MISS CLAWDY (LIVE)
02. ITSUKI NO KOMORIUTA ROCK
03. YUUYAKE KOYAKE
04. JAILHOUSE ROCK
05. HOSHI WA NANDEMO SHITERU (LIVE)
06. HOSHI WA NANDEMO SHITERU 2 (LIVE)
07. SITTIN' IN THE BALCONY
08. LITTLE DARLIN'
09. LUCILLE
10. CRAZY LOVE (LIVE)
11. WEAR MY RING AROUND YOUR NECK (LIVE)
12. JENNY JENNY (LIVE)
13. I LOVE YOU (LIVE)
14. OOH MY SOUL (LIVE)
15. KOGARASHI FUKEBA (LIVE)
16. ONE WAY TICKET
17. MIYO-CHAN
18. SHIMABARA CHIHO KOMORIUTA
19. SHIRANU FURI
20. MINAMI NO SHIMA WA KOI NO SHIMA
21. ANOHI KARA
22. KURUMI-CHAN
23. BLUES DE MEMPHIS
