The New Beginning: Nagayama Yoko

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Saturday, June 20, 2015

Nagayama Yoko at Carnegie Hall

This video probably won't be taken down; the other videos are usually pulled because of copyright issues. From 2013:

Thursday, December 24, 2009

Yoko Nagayama - Jonkara Onna Bushi [PV]
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Wednesday, December 31, 2008

It's been a quiet day. I was going to try to tape the 59th NHK Red and White Song Battle, but the VCR appears to be dying. It chewed up one tape, and almost chewed up another. I stayed at my parents' home to watch about an hour of it before leaving. I think I might be able to watch the rest of it somehow. Nakama Yukie is one of the hosts for the show. Hamasaki Ayumi was the first pop singer to perform. I try to watch the yearly concert show (which is always on New Year's Eve) more for the enka than the JPop. I saw Godai Natsuko sing--I am hoping that Nagayama Yoko will also be present. Most of the JPop singers do not sing very well. But I was struck by the fact that there is nothing like it on American television any more. Jessica and Nick tried to do a variety show, but that didn't last long. There's no family-friendly music show on network TV. Is there no audience for it? Do Americans have a low appreciation of good music, relying instead upon their IPods and MP3 players for entertainment? If it were the case that such televised spectacles (and it is a spectacle, with all of the dancers and performers on the stage) were replaced by local forms of entertainment and popular participation in music, that would be progress and the loss of such shows would not be missed too much. But that is not what has happened here in the United States. Another indication of the decline in quality of American television and/or the American TV-viewing audience? (Too bad Hee Haw ended before I learned to appreciate country and bluegrass.)

There's a Japanese girl group called Pabo. I wonder if they know what the word means in Korean. (It's associated with Hello Project.)

I was watching Nakama Yukie's expressions, and her face and eyes are very expressive. She doesn't really do the annoying kawaii mannerisms and girly voice that many of the younger women (girls) have cultivated. But she is feminine. I'm just wondering if she wouldn't be annoying in her own way, with the constant changes in facial expressions. Perhaps that is done only as a part of her stage presence and announcing. (Although Japanese pop stars and performers are a bit better than American ones in the way they carry themselves in public and speak, eventually they put me in a bad mood. It's not really their fault, even if they represent both the good and bad of pop culture. Unless they are being really shallow and artificial when they talk.)

She wore a kimono at the start of the show, and then changed into a white dress.

Which reminds me, Kerry M. is in town and singing with the St. Ann Choir. Her voice is prominent and her singing skillful. I don't know if she is Catholic. I don't think I'll be able to attend First Vespers for the Solemnity of the Mother of God tonight (at 8 P.M.). Instead, I should be leaving shortly to meet with my sisters and their families for dinner. Is there rush hour traffic today?

Links:
official website: NHK紅白歌合戦
59th NHK Kohaku lineups - Vox
Pictures of Yukie Nakama - Stardock Alpha
Yukie Nakama - Japanese Idol
Barbara's Enka Site - Yoko Nagayama
Ayumi Hamasaki > Divine AYU
official site for Hee Haw

And then there's Lawrence Welk.
JB Funky's Lawrence Welk Page
Stars Of The Lawrence Welk Show

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Watch them while they're still up...
Nagayama Yoko - Koinomachi Sapporo
nagayama yoko
Nagayama Yoko - Yoko no Shinshyuku oiwake
Nagayama Yoko YOKOHAMA silhouette
石川さゆり長山洋子アイドルメドレー
Nagayama Yoko - Jonkara Onna Bushi
おんな炭坑節 - 長山洋子

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Yoko Nagayama - Jongara Onna Bushi with Shamisen (a performance that I had not seen before)
蒼い月長山洋子 Nagayama Yoko
長山洋子【じょんから女節】( ﾛﾝｸﾞﾊﾞｰｼﾞｮﾝ)　Nagayama Yoko
Nagayama Yoko - Sorani Hoshiga Aruyoni　空に星があるように (wow...)
Japanese Enka song "Yoko... no Shinjuku Oiwake"
長山洋子-夫婦坂
長山洋子 in 第58屆紅白
長山洋子 & 日本三味線
長山洋子　捨てられて

80s flashback: Nagayama Yoko -monariza

Tuesday, January 08, 2008

A younger Yoko

長山洋子 - 雲に乗りたい 1986(S61)

長山洋子 - 密やかにときめいて

長山　洋子　ゴールドウィンド

長山洋子/ロンリー・グッドナイト（フェイドイン）

長山洋子 - 肩幅の未来

長山洋子 - ヴィーナス

長山洋子 - ユア・マイ・ラヴ

And
Kizuna Kouhaku 57 utagassen Nagayama Yoko, Kageyama Tokinori

Misc
河合その子　哀愁のカルナバル　Sonoko Kawai

80`s Japanese Female Singers

80年代アイドル

What can compare to the Japanese singing idol industry? Haha.

Another Jonkara Onna Bushi performance

Quality of the video isn't that good... but it's from New Year's Eve 2007... (I wonder if I have this on tape at home.) I think her backup is composed of all women.

Nagayama Yoko - Jonkara Onna Bushi　じょんから女節