SAYONARA - Japanese Farewell -3 Songs. Sonny James + 2

A Japanese song presented by 3 American performers.
1) Sonny James - Shina-No-Yoru
2) 2:20 - Martin Denny - Japanese Farewell Song (Sayonara)
3) 4:40 - Mark Dinning - Japanese Farewell Song

Sonny's was on his 1964 album The Minute You're Gone. GIs learned it in Japan and sang it this way.
Denny was one of the Exotica instrumentalists. This was on his Exotica II album.
Mark Dinning of Teenangel fame had this on his second album Wanderin'.

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Music

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• Sayonara
• Japanese
• 1960s

[EmpireCrusade]

Sayonara!!!!

[masterhide]

Way to pronounce everything wrong doods.

[nettaiyadoya]

これこそトロピカルミュージックの金字塔！

[danonguam]

No, Kyu Sakamoto is not the original singer here. This song is older than he!

Literally Shina no Yoru means China Night, and I first heard it in 1956, and it was old then!

danongaum

[ListentoShells]

Thank you for these wonderful oldies. :) If it weren't for people like you posting them, it would be very hard for me to find. :)

God bless.

[kh5744]

'Shina no yoru' - China Nights - is very famous, sung in the 1930s by Ri Koran (Li Xianglan or Yoshiko Yamaguchi) if I'm not mistaken. Sonny James doesn't do too bad considering it's way back in the 1960s when the only American whites who could speak Japanese were about 8 or 9 Yale grads . . .

[99Hipp]

@carlbrown169 I was also in Japan at Misawa AB in 1957 amd remember hearing this tune. What a great time it was.

[carlbrown169]

I was in Japan in 1953 at Misawa AFB...Thought the song was beautiful and still think so.  007james B.

[GSMovieMoments]

Shina No Yoru is an older song than both of them, also called China Nights. Yes I do see Kyu had it as the followup to Sukiyaki, and it reached #58 in US. I don't remember hearing it. Let me know if it shows up.