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The Tigers (Japanese Band)
The Tigers were a popular Japanese band during the Group Sounds era in the late 1960s. The group featured Kenji Sawada as their lead singer, and were signed by Watanabe Productions. The group was first named "Funnys", and was formed in 1966. They changed their name to "The Tigers" on their first TV performance on 15 November 1966. They appeared in several Japanese movies in the late 1960s. The Tigers recorded " Smile for Me", composed by Barry and Maurice Gibb of The Bee Gees, which was released as a single in July 1969 in the UK and Japan. Also in March 1969, the group was featured on the cover of the US magazine Rolling Stone, the cover story was about rock music in Japan. On 24 January 1971, The Tigers held their last concert, ''The Tigers Beautiful Concert'', at the Nippon Budokan. After The Tigers broke up, Sawada formed the first Japanese supergroup, Pyg, in 1971. In 1981, they reunited. Singles * My Mary (Debut Single) * Seaside Bound * Mona Liza's Smile * Love Onl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Group Sounds
, often abbreviated as GS, is a genre of Japanese rock music which became popular in the mid to late 1960s and initiated the fusion of Japanese ''kayōkyoku'' music and Western rock music. Their music production techniques were regarded as playing a pioneering role in modern Japanese popular music. Group sounds arose following the Beatles performance at the Budokan in 1966, and was strongly influenced by British beat music of the 1960s. Group sounds acts included the Tigers, the Tempters, the Spiders, the Mops, and the Golden Cups. The movement peaked in late 1967 when Jackey Yoshikawa and His Blue Comets won the Japan Record Award. See also * Music of Japan * J-pop * Visual kei * Japanese hip hop * Japanese jazz * Japanese reggae * Japanese ska * List of Japanese rock bands * Enka * Ryūkōka is a Japanese musical genre. The term originally denoted any kind of "popular music" in Japanese, and is the sinic reading of ''hayariuta'', used for commercial music of Edo Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |