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"Cupid" is a song recorded by South Korean girl group Fifty Fifty. It was released as The Beginning: Cupid, a single album featuring a Korean version, an English version (titled the "Twin version") sung by group members Sio and Aran, and an instrumental version of the song, on February 24, 2023, through Attrakt.
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.
While English-language versions of K-pop songs are increasingly common, they are usually rolled out after the original and frequently feel like an afterthought. That’s not the case here.
An American version by Jewel Akens with different English lyrics was written for it. Titled "My First Lonely Night (Sukiyaki)" in 1966, the song reached number 82 on the Billboard Hot 100. On 16 March 1999, Japan Post issued a stamp commemorating Sakamoto and "Ue o Muite Arukō". [ 11 ]
Here, E played C, the front half of the F ♯ key played D, and the (less accessible) rear half played F ♯. The front half of the G ♯ key played E, and the rear half played G ♯. As with the short octave, the key labeled E played the lowest note C. Thus, playing the nominal sequence E F ♯ (front) G ♯ (front) F F ♯ (back) G G ♯ (back) A
Ei wrote the lyrics to the song "Ue o Muite Arukō", known internationally as "Sukiyaki", which has been used in several English language films. He also wrote the lyrics to the song "Miagete Goran Yoru no Hoshi o" sung by Kyu Sakamoto in 1963. He was a graduate of Waseda University.
Agree with AnonMoos. AFAIK, all reliable English-language sources from the time period when the song was a US hit call it "Sukiyaki". The transliterated Japanese title is appropriate as a redirect, but not as the article's main title.
Sukiyaki and Other Japanese Hits is an album by Kyu Sakamoto released in 1963 in the U.S. by Capitol Records.All of the songs on the album are sung in Japanese and feature the title track, a #1 hit in the U.S. for three weeks in 1963, and peaking at #6 in the UK when issued by EMI on its HMV label.