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The song was one of the first Chinese folk songs to become widely known outside China. [23]: 81–82 Beginning in 1896, the song was sometimes used as a temporary national anthem by the Qing Chinese officials in Europe before the adoption of "Cup of Solid Gold" as the official national anthem of the Qing state in 1911. [10]
"Sore dewa, Mata Ashita" (それでは、また明日, Well Then, See You Tomorrow)) is a song by Japanese rock band Asian Kung-Fu Generation. It was released on July 25, 2012, and reached number 11 on the Oricon charts.
In Japan, "Ue o Muite Arukō" topped the Popular Music Selling Record chart in the Japanese magazine Music Life for three months, and was ranked as the number one song of 1961 in Japan. In the US, "Sukiyaki" topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1963, one of the few non-English songs to have done so, and the first in a non-European language.
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It was released as a single on March 31, 2010. The song was written for the film of the same name. [1] The music was composed by band member Masafumi Gotoh, while the lyrics was written by Inio Asano, creator of the manga of the same name that the film is based on. [1] Asian Kung-Fu Generation's recording was not used in the film.
The "Sakura Sakura" melody has been popular since the Meiji period, and the lyrics in their present form were attached then. [citation needed] The tune uses a pentatonic scale known as the in scale (miyako-bushi pentatonic scale) and is played in quadruple meter and has three parts (ABBAC) which stretch over 14 bars (2 + 4 + 4 + 2 + 2).
"China Girl" is a song written by Iggy Pop and David Bowie in 1976, and first released by Pop on his debut solo album, The Idiot (1977). Inspired by an affair Pop had with a Vietnamese woman, the lyrics tell a story of unrequited love for the protagonist's Asian girlfriend, realizing by the end that his Western influences are corrupting her.
"Rewrite" (リライト, Riraito) is a song by Japanese rock band Asian Kung-Fu Generation. It was released as the third single of their second full-length studio album, Sol-fa, on August 4, 2004. [1]