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11-29-2011, 04:04 AM

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Originally Posted by KyleGoetz View Post
 
I still can't figure out how the hell this song hit #1 in the US a scant two decades after Pearl Harbor and WWII. We Americans are not exactly comfortable with foreign languages in the US, let alone one of a then-recent enemy.
And neither can I.

What also intrigues me is the fact the song was renamed "Sukiyaki" in your country. We would not call a nice American ballard "Meatloaf", ya know...


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