Like Yukari Ito,She was a star of the late 60s and early 70s.Title Track was huge hits. Japanese pop of this period seems to have been unique. As the 1970s progressed, more emphasis was placed on how much sound production could be westernised. This is not limited to music, anyhow...This is backed by Hosono's pre-YMO Studio Mujan group.
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As the second daughter of four sisters, she was born in Sasebo City, Nagasaki. She started figure skating at the age of five and was active as an athlete, and was also active in a children's theatre company, where she was taught by Yukio Izumida at the ‘Tomodachi Gekijo’ (Friends Theatre). In 1961, she made her first stage appearance at the Umeda Koma Theatre.
In 1962, at the age of 14, she moved to Tokyo to study under Izumi Taku. 20 April saw the release of the sonosite Yumemiru Koi (Walkin' Back To Happiness) by Sonobooks under her real name, Yoshiko Ishida, and several more sonosheets followed. 1964 April saw the release of her current name She changed her name to Ayumi Ishida and made her debut as an idol singer with Ne, Listen, Mama from JVC . From the same year to the following year, 1965, she played the grandson of Hisaya Morishige in Seven Grandchildren[3] and began her entertainment career as a singer and actress, utilising her acting skills from a theatre company. Regarding his stage name, Rokusuke Naga states in his book Geisha Sono Sekai (The World of Geisha) that his supposed godfather is ‘Ayumi Ishida’ ......, but Naga does not specify whether he himself is the godfather of his stage name, but blurs the issu. Ishida herself denied the theory that she was the godmother of the stage name Ayumi, stating that she got it from the name of the daughter of a person who had taken care of her, when she appeared in the guest corner ‘Otome Tankentai ga Yuku - Kanto Shinchiizu’ of ‘Saturday Wide Radio TOKYO Rokusuke Naga Sono Shinsekai’, where Naga is a radio personality. He denies the theory that Ei is her godmother.
During the four years after her debut, she released 23 singles, but as a singer she was not blessed with any big hits, with her second single ‘Satio-kun’ selling around 50,000 copies at best (Ishida stated that during this period she was too busy with TV dramas and other work to help promote herself as a singer) In order to concentrate on her singing career and change her image, she moved to Nippon Columbia in June 1968. The single Blue Light Yokohama, released in December of the same year, became a big hit from the beginning of the following year, 1969, and reached No. 1 on the Oricon Charts Weekly Ranking on 10 February of the same year. It became a million-seller, selling a total of over 1.5 million copies[9]. It also ranked third on the annual chart that year, establishing Ishida's image as a singer . Ishida made her first appearance in the ‘20th NHK Kohaku Uta Gassen’ later that year, singing ‘Blue Light Yokohama’. She sang the song three other times at the Kohaku Uta Gassen, the 24th in 1973 and the 44th in 1993.
For composer Kyohei Tsutsumi, it was the first song he composed to reach the Oricon Weekly No. 1 position, and he received the 11th Japan Record Award for Best Composition for this song. Blue Light Yokohama’ became not only one of Isida's best-known songs, but also one of Kyohei Tsutumi's greatest hits. It has also been sung for a long time as Yokohama's local song and is loved by the citizens of Yokohama and has been covered by many singers. The song has been a hit since then, with ‘What Would You Do’ reaching No. 2 on the Oricon chart in 1970 and ‘Desert in Tokyo’ reaching No. 3 on the Oricon chart in 1971, and has appeared in the Kohaku Uta Gassen a total of 10 times.
Like Yukari Ito,She was a star of the late 60s and early 70s.Title Track was huge hits.
ReplyDeleteJapanese pop of this period seems to have been unique.
As the 1970s progressed, more emphasis was placed on how much sound production could be westernised. This is not limited to music, anyhow...This is backed by Hosono's pre-YMO Studio Mujan group.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FHCQUsqglQ
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As the second daughter of four sisters, she was born in Sasebo City, Nagasaki. She started figure skating at the age of five and was active as an athlete, and was also active in a children's theatre company, where she was taught by Yukio Izumida at the ‘Tomodachi Gekijo’ (Friends Theatre). In 1961, she made her first stage appearance at the Umeda Koma Theatre.
In 1962, at the age of 14, she moved to Tokyo to study under Izumi Taku. 20 April saw the release of the sonosite Yumemiru Koi (Walkin' Back To Happiness) by Sonobooks under her real name, Yoshiko Ishida, and several more sonosheets followed. 1964 April saw the release of her current name She changed her name to Ayumi Ishida and made her debut as an idol singer with Ne, Listen, Mama from JVC . From the same year to the following year, 1965, she played the grandson of Hisaya Morishige in Seven Grandchildren[3] and began her entertainment career as a singer and actress, utilising her acting skills from a theatre company. Regarding his stage name, Rokusuke Naga states in his book Geisha Sono Sekai (The World of Geisha) that his supposed godfather is ‘Ayumi Ishida’ ......, but Naga does not specify whether he himself is the godfather of his stage name, but blurs the issu. Ishida herself denied the theory that she was the godmother of the stage name Ayumi, stating that she got it from the name of the daughter of a person who had taken care of her, when she appeared in the guest corner ‘Otome Tankentai ga Yuku - Kanto Shinchiizu’ of ‘Saturday Wide Radio TOKYO Rokusuke Naga Sono Shinsekai’, where Naga is a radio personality. He denies the theory that Ei is her godmother.
During the four years after her debut, she released 23 singles, but as a singer she was not blessed with any big hits, with her second single ‘Satio-kun’ selling around 50,000 copies at best (Ishida stated that during this period she was too busy with TV dramas and other work to help promote herself as a singer) In order to concentrate on her singing career and change her image, she moved to Nippon Columbia in June 1968. The single Blue Light Yokohama, released in December of the same year, became a big hit from the beginning of the following year, 1969, and reached No. 1 on the Oricon Charts Weekly Ranking on 10 February of the same year. It became a million-seller, selling a total of over 1.5 million copies[9]. It also ranked third on the annual chart that year, establishing Ishida's image as a singer . Ishida made her first appearance in the ‘20th NHK Kohaku Uta Gassen’ later that year, singing ‘Blue Light Yokohama’. She sang the song three other times at the Kohaku Uta Gassen, the 24th in 1973 and the 44th in 1993.
For composer Kyohei Tsutsumi, it was the first song he composed to reach the Oricon Weekly No. 1 position, and he received the 11th Japan Record Award for Best Composition for this song. Blue Light Yokohama’ became not only one of Isida's best-known songs, but also one of Kyohei Tsutumi's greatest hits. It has also been sung for a long time as Yokohama's local song and is loved by the citizens of Yokohama and has been covered by many singers. The song has been a hit since then, with ‘What Would You Do’ reaching No. 2 on the Oricon chart in 1970 and ‘Desert in Tokyo’ reaching No. 3 on the Oricon chart in 1971, and has appeared in the Kohaku Uta Gassen a total of 10 times.