Hello! I don’t speak Japanese, so I’ll type my text in English here, okay?
Nowadays I’m searching for a kind of thing which I suppose it’s very uncommon: Japanese music from 1940~1950. I wonder if in Japan people know about ancients musics like this. I found out some videos on youtube in order to give you examples, so I am posting here of what about I’m interested in:
Did you see? It can be any music in Japanese from that time which I said before. Do you know if there is some place which I can download their (if they exists)? I would be very happy if someone tell me any famous ancient Japanese musician. Any help is welcomed!
Your first link was from the 60’s. You can download the second link, or anything from Youtube, quite easily if you have a suitable browser add-on. I recommend Firefox’s downloadhelper.
Hi
Here are the key words when you find the old popular songs on YouTube. Try to copy the following words and paste it on Youtube.
流行歌 昭和
流行歌 昭和２０年代
歌謡曲 昭和２０年代
流行歌 means popular songs 、 歌謡曲 is almost same.
We often use Japanese name of era instead of western calender.
昭和１５年 means 1940
昭和２０年 means 1945
昭和２５年 means 1950
I search popular songs of 昭和２０年代 (1945-1954) in Japanese website. Here is the list. Even if you don’t read the Japanese character, just copy the song name and paste it in search box on Youtube.
Song name (Singer name)
※昭和21年 (1946)
リンゴの歌（並木路子）
東京の花売り娘（岡晴夫）
@nobuo, I’m REALLY grateful for your huge support!! Seriously, thank you very much for this post! I’ll see all of these songs which you indicated me. I don’t know nothing about Japanese characters, so your help is really appreciate for me! =D
