Saturday, December 21, 2024

HIROKO OGI

A 7" from Japanese actress and enka singer Hiroko Ogi and this came out in 1967.... GET IT HERE Enjoy!

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  1. 扇ひろこ/悪い人よあなた・新宿ブルース
    Hiroko Ohgi - You are Wicked/Shinjuku Blues

    Not Ogi ーOhgi means
    https://www.kyoto-wel.com/shop/S81162/prdct/00/07/81/image1.jpg
    Shinjuku
    See PIL live in Tokyo
    Second Song
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9eoJfMZweg

    Hiroko Ohgi (real name: Hiromi Tanabe; born 14 February 1945) is a Japanese enka singer and actress. She is married.

    From Wiki
    Biography.
    Born in Danbara-nakamachi (now Danbara, Minami Ward), Hiroshima,in Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture. On 6 August 1945, when she was just six months old, she was exposed to the atomic bombing at her home about 2 km from the hypocentre and lost her fathe her mother, who was 25 years old, left her child with her grandparents in Ehime, Shikoku, to marry a new man, and placed her in her grandmother's register[4]. For this reason, she grew up in Ehime until the age of nine [2], and then moved to Osaka with her mother, whom she met again, and grew up in Osaka City's Nishi Ward from the age of nine [2]. She and her mother were sisters on the family register .

    From an early age, her mother, who loved singing, took her to join the children's choir of the ABC Asahi Broadcasting Corporation , and later sang at the singing academy .

    In 1963, after graduating from Soai High School, she signed a contract with Nippon Columbia and sang her debut song, ‘Atomic Bomb Child Statue’, written by Miyuki Ishimoto, at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony on 6 August 1964. She said that she wanted to sing this song, which commemorates Sadako Sasaki, who died of A-bomb disease while folding 1,000 paper cranes, as one of the A-bomb survivors. However, as the copyright was donated to the City of Hiroshima, her official debut song was Akai Tsubaki no Sanbokasa, which was released the same year . In the same year, Sachiko Kobayashi and Harumi Miyako debuted on the same Nippon Columbia label, and for this reason, the company did not promote Ougi at all .

    She came to the forefront with the big hits ‘Aisatsu Kaikyo’ in 1965 and ‘Shinjuku Blues’ in 1967 . This was at a time when there were still no songs with local names [4], and there was some trouble at Columbia meetings because ‘people from regions other than Shinjuku wouldn't buy it, and it's a dark song’ etc. , but the melancholy song was a big hit and became a pioneer of local songs . The song sold 900,000 copies as of 1968 and is considered to have been the biggest hit of the ‘blues’ songs that were popular that year.

    She has participated in the NHK Kohaku Uta Gassen twice (see below for details) .

    She was also active as an actress , and in 1969 she was invited by director Teruo Ishii to star in Nikkatsu's Ascending Dragon: Tekka Hada , and appeared in many films, mainly as a female chivalrous lady in ninkyo films . In ninkyo films, she gained popularity as ‘Nikkatsu no Ougi Hiroko’ alongside Toei's Fuji Junko (now Fuji Junko) and Daiei's Enami Kyoko. Other famous roles include Toho's The Deceptive Spirits of Mountains and Rivers in the Dark (directed by Yasushi Nakahira) in 1971 and the semi-leading female prisoner role in the first film in Toei's Female Prisoner Scorpion series, Female Prisoner No. 701/Sasori (starring Meiko Kaji) in 1972.

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