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nowhere_fast 06:53 am UTC 03/26/16 |
| In reply to: | Info on the 1986 Japanese version of Good Girls Go To Heaven - angie 09:28 pm UTC 03/23/16 |
| Yep on the single sleeve it is written as 66% with that great live shot of Meat Japan has liking for Jims songs. Over the years ive picked up the singles and parent LP/cds for the songs you listed > This evening, I decided to dig up the internet a bit and > I've actually found a bit of info on this - the Japanese > version of Good Girls Go to Heaven by Megumi Shiina, > called "Kanashimi wa tsuzukanai", which auto-translates to > "Sadness will not last". > > See: > > The song was used as the opening theme to a school TV > drama called "Kono ko dare no ko?", which translates to - > "Whose child is this?". It ran from 22nd October 1986 to > 25th March 1987, and had 22 episodes, each 54 minutes > long, Wednesdays at 8pm. > > See: > > It credits Jim right there at 2:02, > katakana. :) > > There is an English wiki page about the series here: > > > and a Japanese wiki page > > I'm using machine translation here, so bear with me. > > The drama was based on a manga called "Irodori no koro" by > Tsukumo Mutsumi. I found on some other web page that the > manga > "http://www.hahnlibrary.net/comics/awards/japancartoonist.php">won > an award for excellence in 1976. > > Then the wiki page seems to say that despite this series > getting very good TV ratings at the time, it's never been > released as a DVD box set, probably due the heroine being > subject to a shocking and graphic rape scene. Pretty heavy > stuff for a show that was on weekly at 8pm. > > Then it’s something about copyright and something that > mentions the TV series Yanus no Kagami (or: “Mask of > Janus”), and I don’t know why. > > That series was the one that used Megumi Shiina’s Japanese > version of TWIMBY as its opening theme. > > (See: > - really liking the brass section in this version) > > Then blah blah blah, it describes the show and who was in > it... > > Then at the bottom, > > Theme song > "Sadness will not last" song: Megumi Shiina ( TDK record > ) > Lyrics: Keiko Aso Composer: Jim Steinman Arrangement: > Osamu Totsuka > (Original song "Good Girls Go To Heaven, Bad Girls Go > Everywhere") > > The lyricist and arranger appear to have worked on loads > of other TV and anime music. > > The person who wrote incidental music for the series was > Shunsuke Kikuchi, who is actually really famous for his > work. He did the background music for lots (and lots and > lots and lots) of TV shows, including all of the original > 1970s Kamen Riders, and Dragon Ball. And that song that’s > at the end of the film “Kill Bill”. And about a hundred > other things. > > But coincidentally - he wrote incidental music for every > single series where Jim’s compositions were used as an > opening theme. Yanus no Kagami, School Wars (“ > and School Wars 2 (“ > > Also found some really cheesy versions of the Kono ko & > Yanus themes to mark the start of commercial breaks: > > > > -- > > On my travels through Japanese wikipedia, I also found out > that in Japan, Two Out Of Three Ain’t Bad was released > under a Japanese name which means “ > of temptation”! Hahaha! > | |
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