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KYU SAKAMOTO

45 RPM

CAPITOL RECORDS
STARLINE SERIES
X-6152

OUT OF PRINT
"NOW A VERY HARD ITEM TO FIND"
IN NEW UN-PLAYED CONDITION

A-SIDE

SUKIYAKI

PEAK  # 1  [1963]  BILLBOARD HOT 100  14  WEEKS ON CHART

B-SIDE

TANKOBUSHI

PEAK  ***  [1963]  BILLBOARD HOT 100  **  WEEKS ON CHART

CONDITION:  VINYL  MINT  "UN-PLAYED"

CONDITION:  LABEL  NEAR MINT

CONDITION:  COMPANY SLEEVE  EXCELLENT
COMES  with  PLASTIC COVER
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FORMAT: 7" 45 SINGLE  JUKEBOX SERIES  (BACK TO BACK HITS)  
ARTIST:    KYU SAKAMOTO   
TITLE:  SUKIYAKI
                   /  TANKOBUSHI                                                                     
LABEL:  CAPITOL  STARLINE SERIES                            
NUMBER:  X-6152    
LABEL DESCRIPTION:   OLDIES SERIES 
GRADE:   MINT   (new store stock!)    "UN-PLAYED"
ADDITIONAL NOTES:   A REISSUE!!!
ADDITIONAL INFO:  Kyu Sakamoto (坂本 九 Sakamoto Kyū, born Hisashi Oshima (大島 九 Ōshima Hisashi), 10 December 1941 – 12 August 1985).

Kyu SakamotoNative name坂本 九BornHisashi Oshima (大島 九Ōshima Hisashi)
10 December 1941
, JapanDied12 August 1985 (aged 43)

, JapanOther namesKyūchanOccupation Spouse(s)
(m. 1971; his death 1985)Children
MaikoMusical careerGenres Instruments Years active 1958–1959 () 1959–1960 (Danny Iida & his paradise kings) 1961–1985 (solo) Labels  (US and Canada) Associated acts Danny Iida and the Paradise Kings Kayoko Moriyama Life and career Early years: 1941–1949 Childhood in Kawasaki and Kasama Kyu Sakamoto with his sister Yachiyo Endo in 1956

Kyu Sakamoto was born in 1941, in ,  to Hiroshi Sakamoto, a cargo tender officer, and his wife Iku Oshima. He was the youngest of his father's nine children, which is why he was nicknamedKyū (九ちゃん), meaning "nine". It is also an alternate reading of the  of his given name Hisashi (九).

In the summer of 1944, during the , his mother took her children to live with their grandparents in rural . They moved back to Kawasaki in 1949. Hiroshi Sakamoto's company had been closed by the American occupation forces and he opened a restaurant.

1956–1958 Teenage life

In 1956, Kyu Sakamoto's parents divorced. Iku was given custody over her minor children and they adopted the surname Oshima. The older children kept their father's name. Kyu started playing in high school, but he soon began singing. He joined the Japanese pop-band  in 1958.

First recordings (1959–1960) JVC and Toshiba Records

In May 1958, when Sakamoto was 16 years old he joined the Japanese pop-band The Drifters that had been formed three years earlier. Sakamoto was unhappy about his position in the band as second singer and this often led to fights with the other members. His big breakthrough as a band member came 26 August 1958 when he sang at the annual music festival "Western Carnival" at the Nichigeki hall. After a quarrel that ended in a fight with two of the other members, Sakamoto left the band in November 1958.

For a short period of time, Sakamoto returned to his studies and focused on entering the university. But in December 1958, he joined his classmate's Hisahiko Iida's band called "Danny Iida and Paradise King". He replaced Hiroshi Mizuhara as singer. Sakamoto's career took off, he ended his studies and left school. In June 1959, the band got a record deal at the JVC record company. "Danny Iida and Paradise King" and Sakamoto released their song "Kanashiki rokujussai" in August 1960, which became a great hit. In the time after they released a number of songs that became very popular. This led to Sakamoto obtaining a record deal at the  company and left "Danny Iida & Paradise King" aiming at a solo career.

Solo career (1961–1985) Debut album and international success (1961–1964) Kyu Sakamoto (far left) being interviewed live on the Swedish talk show  in October 1964.

Sakamoto's solo career was inaugurated with the love song "" written by  and . The song was first heard on the  entertainment program "Yume de Aimashou" on 16 August 1961. It was a great success and was released on a red vinyl on October 15. It remained the highest selling record until January 1962, three months after its release.

His international breakthrough came in 1963 during a visit to Japan by Louis Benjamin, owner of British record company . Hearing the song several times, Benjamin decided to bring it back to England. Due to concerns that the title would be too hard for -speakers to pronounce or remember, the song was renamed "". The new title was intended to sound both catchy and distinctively Japanese, but had no actual connection to the song.

Initially, Pye Records released an instrumental version of the song recorded by . After it went on to become a hit in England,  (HMV) released the original which also sold well, reaching sixth place in HMV's most sold records. Capitol Records released the song in the USA with the alternate title, eventually selling over one million copies, and remaining number one on the "Billboard Hot 100 number one single" for three weeks in June, 1963.

After the international success of "Sukiyaki", Sakamoto went on a world tour that lasted from summer of 1963 to the beginning of 1964. Among the countries he visited were the United States (including Hawaii), Germany, and Sweden. During his time in the U.S., he was invited to appear in several television shows. On 13 August 1963, he landed at  and was a guest of  that evening. He was supposed to be a guest on as well, but this appearance was canceled due to a scheduling conflict with the production of his upcoming movie, Kyu-chan Katana o Nuite.

Kyu Sakamoto had only one other song reach the U.S. charts, "China Nights (Shina no Yoru)" (Capitol 5016), which peaked at number 58 in 1963. His only American album, Sukiyaki and Other Japanese Hits (Capitol 10349), peaked at number 14 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart (now known as the Billboard 200) in 1963 and remained on the Pop Albums chart for 17 weeks.

He received his sole foreign  of the  (RIAA) by Capitol Records on 15 May 1964 in , .

Discography  (1963)  (1994)  (2005)  (2005)

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