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SUKIYAKI



Originally titled "Ue o Muite Aruko" (literally "[I] shall walk looking up") this song from Kyu Sakatmoto was put out by Toshiba in 1961. Following the release of an instrumental version in 1963 by British label Pye Records the song was retitled Sukiyaki (a Japanese hot pot dish) so as to be more easily remembered by an American audience. Outside of it's content this song's commercial transfiguration is a comical example of the not-so precise mechanisms of global culture at work.  

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