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[@poetryonplastic]

Hey Simon, thanks so much for making a video, I'm honored to be your first youtube video, hopefully you make some more! The female side of 60s pop in Japan is definitely not my expertise, although I do have one of the Nippon Girls comps on vinyl. Once you get into the 70s and folk rock becomes a thing, I think you start to see more female artists making records, and of course the city pop explosion of the 80s which accompanied a rise in urbanization and more social independence for young women. I think we sometimes forget how socially conservative Japan was (and still is to some extent), especially when compared to their rapid modernization in other aspects both pre and post war.

[@analogueanorak1904]

Thanks for your lovely comments Michael. Your request for submissions came at a good time as I had been pondering having a go at making a channel next year post retirement but normally I never go through with anything in the end. I hope at some point to do a few more videos hopefully better than this one including Decca classical mono records and non-KW Decca recording engineers (I must be the world’s only Gil Went fan boy!) Disappointed that you don’t have an encyclopaedic knowledge about all of 1960’s Japanese pop that you have about group sounds it hey maybe something else to do next year. I do recommend another Sheila Burghel curated Ace compilation Love hit me Decca Beat Girls absolutely fantastic.