Year : 2013
Label : Big Beat International
Genre : Rock, Pop, Jazz
Style : Bossa Nova, Beat
Sweet sugar pop & Rock 'N Roll spirit from the "land of the rising sun" compiled by Sheila Burgel for Big Beat International. It brings together some of the greatest hits performed by the queens of the japanese pop in twelve incredible songs released between 1967-1968, featuring Jun Mayuzumi, Mieko Hirota, Reiko Ohara, Mie Nakao or Sayuri Yoshinaga. Most of the tracks selected was composed following the GS (for Group Sounds) wave, a japanese rock genre influenced by the US Rock & British Pop music which introduced the japanese pop in a modern era. Titles include pure rock songs (Black Room, Sharock No.1, Kiiro No Sekai), Jazz pop-oriented songs (Peacock Baby, Watashi No Inori) and Bossa Nova tunes (Tsukikage No Rendezvous, Ame Agari No Samba).
SIDE B : Rumi Koyama - Watashi No Inori / Nana Kinomi & Leo Beats - Suki Sa Suki Sa Suki Sa / Miki Obata - Hatsu Koi No Letter / Ryoko Moriyama - Ame Agari No Samba / Ayumi Ishida - Taiyou Wa Naite Iru / Sayuri Yoshinaga With Schoolmates - Koi No Yorokobi
