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Macahan 04:48 pm UTC 03/28/16 |
| In reply to: | re: Info on the 1986 Japanese version of Good Girls Go To Heaven - rockfenris2005 06:38 am UTC 03/24/16 |
| Actually that bit is ancient news and has been on the NH tracklist for many years. > > So "Good Girls Go To Heaven" really was released three > years before "Pandora's Box"? Wow. What is THAT all about? > Though I swear I remember someone saying here once that > "Good Girls" was actually done for the "Streets of Fire" > soundtrack initially. Seriously, what gives? > > > > 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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