Masaki Hirao & His All Stars Wagon - Nippon Rock 'N' Roll: The Birth Of Japanese Rokabirii 1958-1960 Masaki Hirao & His All Stars Wagon - Nippon Rock 'N' Roll: The Birth Of Japanese Rokabirii 1958-1960

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Masaki Hirao & His All Stars Wagon

Nippon Rock 'N' Roll: The Birth Of Japanese Rokabirii 1958-1960

Label:

 Ace Records      

Recorded:

 1958-1960

Genre:

 Japanese

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Rock N Roll

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Rockabilly

Our Item#: 216644

     

UPC: 029667001212

     

Catalog: HIQLP 013

     

Item Weight: 170 grams

Tracks Listing
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1.

Lawdy Miss Clawdy (Live)


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2.

Itsuki No Komoriuta Rock


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3.

Hoshi Wa Nandemo Shitteiru Pi 2 (Live)


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4.

Crazy Love (Live)


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5.

Jailhouse Rock


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6.

Jenny Jenny (Live)


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7.

Ooh My Soul (Live)


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8.

One Way Ticket


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9.

Miyo-Chan


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10.

Blues De Memphis


Album review for Masaki Hirao & His All Stars Wagon - Nippon Rock 'N' Roll: The Birth Of Japanese Rokabirii 1958-1960

Nippon Rock N Roll documents the rise of Masaaki Hirao. Dubbed 'The Japanese Elvis', Hirao was one of the famed Rokabirii Sannin Otoko (Three Rockabillies), alongside singers Mickey Curtis and “Kei-chan”, Keijiro Yamashita. In early 1958| the rokabirii buumu (rockabilly boom) was born, the first youth music tribe in the Land Of The Rising Sun. Rokabirii may resemble US rockabilly, but this Nipponese version is a more varied dish. Hirao and his band’s covers of Eddie Cochran, Elvis Presley and Little Richard are not kitsch renditions, but raw, desperate rockers. Hear a Paul Anka makeover, but put through a rocking mangle; a smattering of jazz; a twist of New Orleans; and some Japanese folk songs with a greased-down quiff. American occupation a distant memory, these boys wanted to party. The studio numbers here are hardboiled, with unkempt live recordings that really rock. Tough drums back up honking sax, in a pedal steel pandemonium with slap bass. In the words of Elvis: these guys “get real gone”.



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