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Ryōichi Hattori (服部 良一, Hattori Ryōichi, October 1, 1907 – January 30, 1993) was a Japanese pop and jazz composer. Katsuhisa Hattori is his son. He had a great influence on Japanese pop and was awarded the People's Honor Award.
Oct 18, 2023 · A leading expert in the history of popular music sheds light on the achievement of postwar “Boogie Queen” Kasagi Shizuko and her regular collaborator Hattori Ryōichi, who infused an American...
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Namiki Michiko (1921–2011) as pictured on the cover of a recent release featuring her 1945 hit “Ringo no uta” (The Apple Song). Born in Tokyo’s Asakusa district, Namiki spent her early years in Taiwan. In 1936 she entered the training corps for the Shōchiku Shōjo Kagekidan, an all-female musical theater troupe, and the following year she launched a...
Hattori Ryōichi (1907–93), whom many regard as the father of Japanese pop music, was noted for such hits as “Tokyo Boogie Woogie” and “Ginza kankan musume” (Ginza Can-can Girl) that boldly incorporated the latest Western pop music styles and jazz rhythms. (Nippon Columbia 2006) “Tokyo Boogie Woogie,” composed and arranged by Hattori Ryōichi and per...
Of course, one could scarcely expect that the very first hits of postwar Japan would emerge from a vacuum, disconnected from the performers, composers, and styles of the preceding periods. But this continuity was problematical from the standpoint of the progressive postwar intellectual elite, which hoped to propagate a postwar culture embodying enl...
One of Japan's greatest popular composers, Ryoichi Hattori (1907-1993) is credited with popularizing blues with his song Wakare no Blues in 1937. The song 'Saint Louis Blues' had been introduced in 1923, but Hattori created his own version of the blues.
Sep 29, 2023 · NHK's new asadora features jazz singer/actress Shizuko Kasagi (Shuri Mizutani) and songwriter Ryōichi Hattori (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi). Now here's the backstory.
Ryôichi Hattori was born on 1 October 1907 in Osaka, Japan. He was a composer and executive, known for Crazy Rich Asians (2018), Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) and Isle of Dogs (2018). He died on 30 January 1993.