From: owner-monkey@valinor.eldar.org (Monkey Digest) To: monkey-digest@valinor.eldar.org Subject: Monkey Digest V1 #1089 Reply-To: monkey@valinor.eldar.org Sender: owner-monkey@valinor.eldar.org Errors-To: owner-monkey@valinor.eldar.org Precedence: bulk Monkey Digest Sunday, October 20 2002 Volume 01 : Number 1089 In this issue: [monkey] Masaaki Sakai's "Songoku" and "Imadewa Ososugiru" EPs Re: [monkey] Masaaki Sakai's "Songoku" and "Imadewa Ososugiru" EPs ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 15:46:14 +0000 From: "Howell Parry" Subject: [monkey] Masaaki Sakai's "Songoku" and "Imadewa Ososugiru" EPs For a long time now, we've thought that Masaaki Sakai contributed 2 songs to Monkey season 2: - - The song played at the end of all seasoon 2 episodes (it ends with the words "Magic Monkey"), just before the end credits. This song is called "Songoku" (co-written by Yukihide Takekawa from Godiego) and was released as a single in Japan. A longer clip of this song can be heard near the start of episode 34, "Keep on Dancing". - - A Japanese version of the Godiego ballaad "Thank You, Baby". This can be heard in episode 11, "The Difference Between Night and Day", and episode 15, "Monkey Meets The Demon Digger". Well, my Japanese friend has managed to find 2 Masaaki Sakai EPs: 1) Songoku The A-side is "Songoku", and the B-side is his Japanese version of the Godiego song "Havoc in Heaven", called "20 Oku Nen No Kurayami" 2) Ima Dewa Ososugiru The A-side is "Imadewa Ososugiru", and the B-side is "Kono Michi No Hatemademo", Masaaki Sakai's version of the Godiego song "Thank You, Baby". I don't have the actual EPs, but my friend has recorded both of them for me, and sent me photocopies of the record sleeves. NOTE: (a) I had no idea he'd recorded his version of "Havoc In Heaven" (b) I had no idea that his version of "Thank You, Baby" (strictly speaking, it's a different song to the same tune - the lyrics aren't a direct translation) was released as a single in Japan. The Japanese lyrics mean: "Flowers, Birds, don't ask me where we go. We would just walk on. It's only such a thing. Your heart, your word, I will never forget them. ..." (thanks to Eiji Ikeda who translated these and sent them to the mailing list back in 1999) (c) Apparently, his song "Ima Dewa Ososugiru" is the third song that Masaaki Sakai recorded for "Monkey". After listening to it, it doesn't familiar - does anyone know which episode(s) featured it? Most importantly, you can see scans of the front and back sleeves for both these EPs on my Masaaki Sakai tribute page: http://www.monkeyheaven.com/masaaki.html Note that I've included "massive" versions of the back sleeves just in case any of you would like to read the tiny Japanese kanji characters (they're difficult to distinguish between one another unless the scans are massive) The back sleeves to both these EPs contain the lyrics for all the songs. I'm hoping to receive these lyrics in romanji characters, and maybe even English translations, at some point. If any of you can help with these in the meantime, please go ahead ;) I can read the hiragana / katakana characters in all the lyrics, but not the kanji characters... Howell _________________________________________________________________ Surf the Web without missing calls! Get MSN Broadband. http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/freeactivation.asp - --------------------------------------------------------------------- + List guidelines: http://www.monkeyheaven.com/guidelines.html + To unsubscribe, send an email to: majordomo@valinor.eldar.org with 'unsubscribe monkey' in the body of your message + Need help? Send an email to: owner-monkey@valinor.eldar.org - --------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 16:16:16 +0000 From: "Howell Parry" Subject: Re: [monkey] Masaaki Sakai's "Songoku" and "Imadewa Ososugiru" EPs >I can read the hiragana / katakana characters in all the lyrics, >but not the kanji characters... Just to illustrate this, here's the romanji lyrics to "Songoku" - I've put a "...." gap every time there's a kanji character (apologies for any errors - I did this quite quickly) Songoku - ------- ore wa ..... ni ... kiyu songokuu da yo ..... na mon da yo ... no naka iro iro aru keredo ore wa ..... nai ne moshi mo .... ku te ... o sare tara so itsu motsu rai ne ... rya ikura mo .. kaoru amari ... nado ... ru nayo motto hito kiku ... o ... gete .. no naka gamete goranyo ... tta yori ... itokojanai kono ... wa ... shii they call me magic monkey they call me magic monkey ... na koto ga shinagara ... kiteru ore dayo magic monkey ore wa ... ni ... kiru songokuu dayo ... shiku yatte ru - --- So if you wanted to, you could try singing along (this tune is featured at the end of all season 2 Monkey episodes - which includes all the unseen Monkey episodes featured on the UK Monkey DVDs), and working out what all the gaps are as you go ;) Howell _________________________________________________________________ Internet access plans that fit your lifestyle -- join MSN. http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/default.asp - --------------------------------------------------------------------- + List guidelines: http://www.monkeyheaven.com/guidelines.html + To unsubscribe, send an email to: majordomo@valinor.eldar.org with 'unsubscribe monkey' in the body of your message + Need help? Send an email to: owner-monkey@valinor.eldar.org - --------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ End of Monkey Digest V1 #1089 ***************************** ----------------------------------------- List guidelines: http://www.monkeyheaven.com/guidelines.html List archives: http://archive.monkeyheaven.com/ User name: greatsage Password: masaaki To unsubscribe from the Monkey Mailing List digest list, send mail to: majordomo@valinor.eldar.org with the following command in the body of your email message: unsubscribe monkey-digest To send a message to the list, send mail to: monkey-digest@valinor.eldar.org If you have any problems or questions, send mail to: owner-monkey@valinor.eldar.org For lots more information and news about "Monkey", check out the Monkey Heaven web site: http://www.monkeyheaven.com/