Whoever is listening to this crap should go listen to the original song with translation by the original artist. Kyu Sakamora, he is the original artist. He hated the American occupation of Japan. His memory and his song are a national treasure for the Japanese These bullshit lyrics were written by an American to make money.
I love both versions,I was born in 1963 and was getting ready to graduate from high school when this version came out in 1981,I haven’t heard this song in years,thank you for the memories!😊
63 here too. This was playing whe I met my first girlfriend summer of '81 after graduation. She was killed in December of 81 in an MVA. Bittersweet memories.
I forgot about this song, but yeah, my childhood living with grandma and grandpa in flint. Flint was cool when it was the murder capital believe it or not, especially compared to how it is now. So sad.
This reminds me of my husband who I lost. It still makes me cry. Beautiful lyrics, fantastic voices and lovely koto instruments. These ladies overflow with talent, style and beauty.
I was just crying thinking of my late husband. Listening to this made me think of how much I love(d) him. then I saw your comment ... sweet memories...
This was a great time. I was looking at Billboard's Hot 100 for 1981 and this track finished #22 for the year. But if you look at the entire chart, there was every kind of music you could imagine represented: country, pop, soul, rock 'n roll. Everything from the Oak Ridge Boys to Foreigner and Stevie Wonder to Barbara Streisand. What an amazing time for music lovers!
Words can't express how this song makes a person feel...and the beat with the oriental chimes...it's so beautiful, I'm truly grateful to be able to listen to this masterpiece
Diez those "oriental chimes" as you call it is actually the Japanese "Koto" instrument. In this particular song it is being played by the master herself, June Kuramoto of the band Hiroshima. Lionel
Lionel Pichon I would say thanks for the correction,but I feel it isn't me you want to educate but rather brag and flaunt your "higher knowledge"...no thanks
Diez spurling I don't think that Lionel was trying to show up anyone with his "higher knowledge" (as you put it). Way too many sensative people on here..
Yep original version is in Japanese sang by Kyu Sakamoto , 2nd version in English by a taste of honey and 3rd version in Spanish by Selena y Los Dinos ( Selena Quintanilla Perez)
still listening in 2020.. wish we can go back in time when this song was out and have one last conversation/laugh with our loved ones we lost! beautiful memories growing up on this song 😭😢 ❤️
Your post hit home; when this song was out, my younger brother & both of my parents were still alive. I lost my brother in 1994, my mom in 2018, my dad...last month.
Karen: I am sorry for your loss. I lost my Father in 2003 and my Mother in 2016. 1981, the year this song came out, was a great time for music. I was 17, and if I knew then what I know now, I would have spent more time with my grandparents, Aunts, and Uncles- nearly all of which are gone now. It will get better with time dealing with your grief. Always be thankful for your memories- they can be very comforting at times.
Kyu Sakamoto died tragically with over 500 other passengers in a commercial plane accident in Japan. His original is so beautiful as is this remake. The pearls of music in my youth are blessings for the ears and soul. This song begs to be re-recorded by a modern pop singer.
It can never be rerecorded as wonderfully as this sultry, sensitive, soulful, subtle version by A Taste of Honey. Janice-Marie Johnson's voice is oozingly beautiful.
entered Billboard March 7, 1981 ..reached #3 originally a #1 hit for Kyu Sakamoto in April, 1963, the first and only Japanese artist to reach #1 in Billboard
The original song in Japanese is hauntingly beautiful. This version by Taste of Honey is a masterpiece. The lyrics, while not an accurate translation, which would be quite impossible anyway, perfectly capture the original. Perfect!
That’s right there is not a single word from the original, but my point is that the interpretation is perfect. It’s a translation from the Japanese into English, but the original is not realistically translatable. I have created a version where we alternate the original Japanese verses with the English verses. It works really well.
Think of alll of the Brazilian songs that are the same. Now imagine all of the classics written in English and the effect they must have had all over the world. Its about the human experience in the end.
She was refused credit for the English lyrics loosely based on the Japanese. Tears. She took a big hit and gave it to an even bigger, more diverse audience with sensitive, poignant words. Brilliant!
From 35 years ago this month in June 1981. How ironic Kyu Sakamoto's original hit number one exactly 18 years earlier on 6/15/63. Both versions are great
Celestine IsSharkeishaNO Thank You for that! I was just getting ready to google it! I just saw June Kuramoto and Hiroshima play in Seattle this past weekend. They were awesome! June’s the best Koto player in the world hands down. I loved this song in high school.😁
at a house party or block party or a jam at the respective rec centers or school gyms.... after rockin to the hard hip hop break beats..... we'd slow it down and then you'd pull a cutie and slow drag to this jam here......yes , yes y'all......1980s ya'll..... New...... York.....City
This song they crafted is the most original, melodically arranged piece of love pop song I ever heard. Elements of Japanese culture and American nostalgia combined in a very intelligent song. I can almost picture an epic Hollywood movie about an American soldier and a Japanese girl love story in world war 2.with this song as an intro or ending credits.
Haven't there been a few with American soldiers and Asian women? A few forbidden love stories and discovering love children they didn't know about. Even in episodes of tv shows like Air Wolf
"This version used a koto played by Hazel Payne. A Taste of Honey's version of "Sukiyaki" first appeared on their 1980 album". I could not find Ghetzen anywhere. So, no ghetzen and no man. A woman and a koto. I have three I brought back from Japan. Was stationed there from 2009 to 2012=great memories.
"You took your love away from me" February 4,2019 My whole life changed. Mine forever heartbreak. I'm truly missing You. Rest Mine Loving husband. I truly love you.
One of my Aunts fav songs, I listen to this when I miss her since she passed away from breast cancer...she was like another mom to me. I'm only 23 but I was raised on this kind of music so when she mentioned this song before she passed I already knew what she was talking about and it hurt cause this song is so beautiful...she passed the day after that convo... RIP. Beautiful song
Sweet Cookie ..... This song is a CLASSIC. Graduated from HS class of 1981, Plenty nites on the phone with my GF, Her getting ready for college me to the service (later going to college). This song Atlantic Starr, Switch, Ray Goodman & Brown were just a couple of others we would play on the Telephone until seeing who get sleepy first and play the WHO WILL SAY GOOD NITE first ! lol .... We ROMANCED young ladies ..... only the 80's ! ..... Where's my Delorean to take me BACK to the FUTURE !
castortroykrb awww now I love hearing things like that, nothing like true romance. It feels soooo good! Thanks for sharing and have a great ear for music!
Grew up hearing Kyu Sakamoto's version in Japanese as a little boy in Thailand, rediscovered it again in english by A taste of honey as a teenager in Detroit. Now I just heard a version in french by Clementine and german version by Yvonne Carre. They are all good and soulful, the words are haunting and thanks to A Taste of Honey I will never forget this song. Nirandorn Neville
I heard A taste of Honey's rendition first, but I watched this movie called From Up on Poppy Hill, and it was playing the original song, and I kept thinking, "This song sounds so familiar!" After doing some searching, I was able to find out that this song was a rendition after all. I'm really glad that I now know the original. They're both beautiful in their own unique, and it makes me appreciate how music knows no boundaries, not even the boundaries of language or of a country can stop music.
The lyrics are not the translation from the original version sung by Kyu Sakamoto. Rokusuke Ei wrote the song on his way back from a protest against a Treaty of Mutual Cooperation between the United States and Japan. The protest was a failure and while walking home he wrote this song but left the lyrics a little generic so that it could also relate to lost love. But its about a man looking up to the stars and whistling this tune so his tears won't fall to the ground. Something like that. LoL.
Yeah, I knew it wasn't a translation of it, but it's considered a cover because it uses the same melody. Thanks for the background on the original song though.
I have to laugh when people feel like calling this one original. Pretty funny I heard Kyu Sakamoto's in the 70's when my parents played it or when it ran on the radio. I grew up in the 80's so I sure did listen to both. This one is not bad but there seems to be more emotion to the original. All versions are hauntingly soul filling for sure. We all have our favorites.
Either you like this song or you don't but please stop comparing it to other songs. I don't care if this is a remake of another song. The most people who love this song will probably never listen to the original. So for us this song is an original and a beautiful song. Just leave it at that. My rant is based on reading the comments below. I for one love this song and it will remain one of my favorites from this group.
This is amazing, but whatever you want to call the "original", you should def give it a listen. It's all in Japanese but you can absolutely understand it...you feel it. The actual song is supposed to mean something like he's walking in the rain thinking about a love that he can never be with and in so, leads to his ultimate demise. Both songs are incredibly heart full, but if you haven't, you should listen to Kyu Sakimoto's version. Gave me goosebumps like a mother!!
richie morii Did I say I didn't respect the original song? No I did not. I commented on the fact that everyone is arguing over which version is best and all I said is that it is a matter of preference. If it were not for UA-cam I would not have ever heard the original and I prefer this version because for me it is an original. So?
perrytheshit My comment relates to the fact that I did go and listen to and seek out the original song. It sounds like a big band song. It is not my cup of tea. Don't get me wrong I don't hate it, it just doesn't get me going. I prefer this song. It really sounds more Japanese than the original believe it or not.
One of the most unique r&b ballads of that year mainly due to the inclusion of the Koto, giving it that nice Japanese flavor...Sukiyaki, as done by Taste Of Honey is delicate, exotic and quite beautiful...
+paul simmons yep it's incredible how koto fixes well with a "soul" tune... amazing... I had listen to this version on a video of Tokyo by night here in youtube! I wonder if it still around..
You realize this is actually the opposite, this is an old Japanese song from The R&B element is the addition to the song. The Japanese title is Ue wo Muite Arukō, which means I look up as I walk. It's a protest song about continued military presence. A Taste of Honey just changed the lyrics around.
My life went to hell in a handbasket in the Spring of 1981 too. My father died unexpectedly of a brain hemmoridge. I was ten. My family fell apart after that, so I feel ya!!
SONG TAKE ME BACK TO HIGH SCHOOL WHEN MY FIRST GIRL FM JAPAN HAD TO LEAVE... SHE LEFT ME WITH KNOW HOW TO LOVE UNCONDITIONALLY..YEP !!! FIRST GIRL SHOWED ME HOW TO CARE
KantBserious b and then there are some of us that want to fall in love and a person that says they are only friends sends you this song you are very confused and sad
I was 11 years old when this came out I remembered being in the restaurant with my family and this song came on it was so beautiful my mom loved it I didn’t realize it was written in Japanese the English version is just as beautiful masterpiece🥰
This song came out in '81 just after my husband died in March.I would play this song over and over because I kept hearing you took your love away from me. If only you were here you would wash away my tears and the sun would shine but in reality that would never be.
I met her in 1967, I an 18 Year old Marine, she was Papasan's daughter. Eighteen months and a lifetime of emotions later, I got orders to Vietnam. It wreck her so bad emotionally. I return to see her on my R and R. We conceived our daughter and again I left, promising to return. I returned home from the war mentally broken and for ten years I struggled with the memory of her and what could have been. Then I heard The Taste of Honey perform this song and I found peace. I'm back revisiting this tune to remember my youth. It had been an interesting experience.
This song is absolutely beautiful and I love the fact that Janice wrote the lyrics as the original song was sung in Japanese also the fact that Hazel learned to play that Japanese string instrument (I can't think of its name now) for the song. They were very underrated as group.😉
Lawrence Malloy I have the 12" and album version on vinyl (of course, it was handed down to me with a billion other records. Nevertheless, I enjoy listening to them and I'm 18. I have nothing but the utmost respect for the golden age music.
one of my mom's favorite songs I've looked high and low for this song Just so I can hear it For so odd reason I just remembered she has this Record 💿 Either way this is such a beautiful song 👍☺ Thank you for posting this
It's all because of you I'm feelin' sad and blue You went away, now my life is just a rainy day I love you so, how much you'll never know You've gone away and left me lonely Untouchable memories seem to keep haunting me Of love so true, that once turned all my gray skies blue But you've disappeared, now my eyes are filled with tears I'm wishin' you were here with me Soft with love are my thoughts of you Now that you're gone, oh, I don't know what to do If only you were here, you'd wash away my tears The sun would shine, and once again you'd be mine, all mine But in reality, you and I will never be 'Cause you took your love away from me, oh If only you were here, you'd wash away my tears The sun would shine, and once again you'd be mine, all mine But in reality, you and I will never be 'Cause you took your love away from me Oh, baby, you took your love away from me Sayonara there's no sukiyaki, because i eat it all
+37diamond remember my mom telling me this in the 80's...said it was a big hit.. even though it was sung in Japanese... as a child she loved it.. . heard it for the first time a few years ago... it was nice.. but i like this version better...
So loving another slow jams song "A Taste Of Honey" that made it to #SNSJ and KUMU Quiet Storm. It's why they called it the Slow Jams in the 1st place. Songs do get the loving attention.
Yessirrr 💯 whoaaa God bless these ol skool music 🎶 groups from the 70's,80's,90's after "99" ion new skool completely took over the music 🎶 industry+rap of course ya digg dugg 😁💯 yo the world 🌎 evolves we have to evolve as ppl 💯🤔👍!!!!!
Same and I'm 14, I just love music and I love to here different genres but 1979-2000 hip hop was one of the best along with Elvis, Jerry Lee Luis and also rap like Eminem and one of my favourite, post malone I just love music Wich is different and unique today's music is random bullshit 😂
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Who is still listening //to this beautiful ❤️🥀❤️🥀❤️🥀❤️song in /2024 🎈🎈
Oh yeah now that I found it.
Whoever is listening to this crap should go listen to the original song with translation by the original artist. Kyu Sakamora, he is the original artist. He hated the American occupation of Japan. His memory and his song are a national treasure for the Japanese These bullshit lyrics were written by an American to make money.
So worth listening to again. ❤
Me my favorite song
Me.
I'm building a time machine........anybody wanna go back with me?
I do
+Reggie Lewis Count me in, captain. Where we headed? :)
If Michael Jackson's going I'm down lol
... only if I can take the knowledge gained with me ...
+Ovrcast67 lol!
My dad passed in 2019, I'll never forget when he showed me this song... R.I.P Dad I love you ❤
No te alcanzó a mostrar LOS JAIVAS "mira niñita"
Sorry to hear about your dad passed away but you got a friend in me if you ever need me so hey
Sorry for the passing of your father
Rest In Peace to your OG rest in love
My condolences
I remember my mom playing this when I was growing up. Now I'm playing it as an adult. Timeless.
I love both versions,I was born in 1963 and was getting ready to graduate from high school when this version came out in 1981,I haven’t heard this song in years,thank you for the memories!😊
Right there with you! Wow, it sure seems like things were much simpler back then!! This song takes me back, too!!
63 here too. This was playing whe I met my first girlfriend summer of '81 after graduation. She was killed in December of 81 in an MVA. Bittersweet memories.
Wow. I haven't heard this song in forever. Such good days.
OH MY........a flood of childhood memories.....what a great song.....what a great time......
80spartygirl YES
It does bring back all those good childhood memories
Especially on Dionne Warwick's SOLID GOLD DAYZ. MEMORIES ARE ALWAYS AND 4EVERMORE.
I forgot about this song, but yeah, my childhood living with grandma and grandpa in flint. Flint was cool when it was the murder capital believe it or not, especially compared to how it is now. So sad.
@@rnhor4924 lol! I forgot all about Solid Gold.
This was straight up my high school years ...for real y'all!!!!
I graduated in 1982.
I graduated in 1982 too 😊❤
Me too lol.....dover NJ. 1982.......love this song
You betta PREACH! I graduated in 1987. This was still The Shit! 🪕🎎👘
1981 HS Grad. Also at top off the list was Deja VU Teena Marie
This reminds me of my husband who I lost. It still makes me cry. Beautiful lyrics, fantastic voices and lovely koto instruments. These ladies overflow with talent, style and beauty.
I was just crying thinking of my late husband. Listening to this made me think of how much I love(d) him. then I saw your comment ... sweet memories...
Keep on keeping on, Josephine.
@@finallythere100 Today is the anniversary when I lost my mate. I feel you.
💪
MY DEEPEST CONDOLENCES
This was a great time. I was looking at Billboard's Hot 100 for 1981 and this track finished #22 for the year. But if you look at the entire chart, there was every kind of music you could imagine represented: country, pop, soul, rock 'n roll. Everything from the Oak Ridge Boys to Foreigner and Stevie Wonder to Barbara Streisand. What an amazing time for music lovers!
True true....they don't make love songs like these since then.
Words can't express how this song makes a person feel...and the beat with the oriental chimes...it's so beautiful, I'm truly grateful to be able to listen to this masterpiece
Diez those "oriental chimes" as you call it is actually the Japanese "Koto" instrument. In this particular song it is being played by the master herself, June Kuramoto of the band Hiroshima.
Lionel
Lionel Pichon I would say thanks for the correction,but I feel it isn't me you want to educate but rather brag and flaunt your "higher knowledge"...no thanks
Sorry you took it the wrong way. I was not trying to brag. I was only trying to give recognition to a fantastic artist June Kuramoto. My apologies.
Diez spurling I don't think that Lionel was trying to show up anyone with his "higher knowledge" (as you put it). Way too many sensative people on here..
Mike Stone I don't think I asked for your opinion...too many intruders on here also
while I was in Japan I listen in Japanese version wow taste of honey did version in American it was a big hit for them
You sound corny.
Spoiler Alert!
You sound like an ass.
Who sounds corny now you damn fairy??
Where the part Japanese
Yep original version is in Japanese sang by Kyu Sakamoto , 2nd version in English by a taste of honey and 3rd version in Spanish by Selena y Los Dinos ( Selena Quintanilla Perez)
Ary6Galindo This version is the first I knew, and yet Selena immediately sprang to mind when I pressed play! 💜💜
R.I.P. Taste of Honey guitarist Suzanne "Minnie" Thomas
Kurt Rogers WHEN did she die??? AND how???
really how long she been dead
She passed away, went to meet God in 2015
Googled her info. She passed at Age 60. Didn't have a Cause of Death
@@robprotz3218 Thank you so much for the info. This was one of my favorite all time groups! She is missed! 😪
still listening in 2020.. wish we can go back in time when this song was out and have one last conversation/laugh with our loved ones we lost! beautiful memories growing up on this song 😭😢 ❤️
Your comment made me cry
SKYTIER NORTHWEST me too
Your post hit home; when this song was out, my younger brother & both of my parents were still alive. I lost my brother in 1994, my mom in 2018, my dad...last month.
Karen: I am sorry for your loss. I lost my Father in 2003 and my Mother in 2016. 1981, the year this song came out, was a great time for music. I was 17, and if I knew then what I know now, I would have spent more time with my grandparents, Aunts, and Uncles- nearly all of which are gone now. It will get better with time dealing with your grief. Always be thankful for your memories- they can be very comforting at times.
Yup, still listening.
Kyu Sakamoto died tragically with over 500 other passengers in a commercial plane accident in Japan. His original is so beautiful as is this remake. The pearls of music in my youth are blessings for the ears and soul. This song begs to be re-recorded by a modern pop singer.
It can never be rerecorded as wonderfully as this sultry, sensitive, soulful, subtle version by A Taste of Honey. Janice-Marie Johnson's voice is oozingly beautiful.
😢
Nope. The original is best.
The original is the best
Well put 💚
My mother died recently and this is her favorite song, I can listen to it and think of her.
Tweety 😓
I am Sorry , good músic ....
гандон
So sorry to hear! My condolences to you & your family! She's with you always! 🌹
❤
entered Billboard March 7, 1981 ..reached #3 originally a #1 hit for Kyu Sakamoto in April, 1963, the first and only Japanese artist to reach #1 in Billboard
unfortunately he died in a plane crash
You did your homework- yes a remake from a 60s classic
Yes it is
It's beautiful !
August 1985. The plane he was in crashed into a mountain with over 500 people on board. I was stationed in Asia when it happened. So sad
The original song in Japanese is hauntingly beautiful. This version by Taste of Honey is a masterpiece. The lyrics, while not an accurate translation, which would be quite impossible anyway, perfectly capture the original. Perfect!
Yes.
Not accurate???? There is not a single word in this that is in the original by KYU SAKAMOTO.
That’s right there is not a single word from the original, but my point is that the interpretation is perfect. It’s a translation from the Japanese into English, but the original is not realistically translatable. I have created a version where we alternate the original Japanese verses with the English verses. It works really well.
How do i get the Japanese version??
@@peoplepleaser69 type in Kyu Sakamoto, sukiyaki.
I can't believe it after all these years this song still touches me so deeply❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
It’s hard to believe that a song written in Japanese is still so poetic after being translated into English.
Think of alll of the Brazilian songs that are the same. Now imagine all of the classics written in English and the effect they must have had all over the world.
Its about the human experience in the end.
Actually this song wasn’t translated at all and it just uses the same melody but talks about something completely different
It's not a translation they used the music. But yes its very poetic. The original is very sad also
Its not a translation. Songwriters used the melody to write different words. This isnt the only song that uses the original melody
She was refused credit for the English lyrics loosely based on the Japanese. Tears. She took a big hit and gave it to an even bigger, more diverse audience with sensitive, poignant words. Brilliant!
These are the type of groups TVOne is supposed to be doing Unsungs on.
@JHP Stories can I get a AMEN.
They won't do it because these ladies aren't black.
The Friends Of Distinction should have an episode on TVOne's Unsung also.
I would listen to this song nonstop. And what amazed me was these ladies played their own instruments. Blew me away!
😐
They did not
I had the 8-Track tape! Yes, 8-Track!! Loved this song -- even today!!
Luv this shit!
ToonieMama
I have the 45 to this
Njce do ToonieMama!
And I had the album..lol
Amazing cover. How they took the original 1963 classic and turned it into this soft and totally beautiful and awesome R&B ballad.
😐
Not a cover, an original. Not anywhere close to the original.
Sukiyaki is the song.
Who's still listening to this in 2019??
I am I love this song
Here
Me!
Awesome cover of the original Japanese song!
Real people not pot heads like you Bimbo !!
My carefree high school days.
Those were the days..
enmaxus yea
chinita41 ..my friend...we thought they'd never end...
Raoul Carggarglin Yes. LOL!
Hello. Yes, those were the days.
From 35 years ago this month in June 1981. How ironic Kyu Sakamoto's original hit number one exactly 18 years earlier on 6/15/63. Both versions are great
Amazing!! 🎶
I'm wishing u were here with me..love if my life!
I shall never grow tired, of this song's extreme beauty...
Listening in 2023. These never get old
2024. 04. 17.
@@au79ag47 2025 .7.07.
This was my song for my husband who passed. Never tire of this beautiful song. The voices, along with Japanese koto instruments is just sublime.
June from Hiroshima plays the Koto in this song. I'm a huge fan of this!
Celestine IsSharkeishaNO Thank You for that! I was just getting ready to google it! I just saw June Kuramoto and Hiroshima play in Seattle this past weekend. They were awesome! June’s the best Koto player in the world hands down. I loved this song in high school.😁
nice disco era cover by a duet called "a taste o
at a house party or block party or a jam at the respective rec centers or school gyms.... after rockin to the hard hip hop break beats..... we'd slow it down and then you'd pull a cutie and slow drag to this jam here......yes , yes y'all......1980s ya'll.....
New...... York.....City
Brooklyn house parties
@@firehorrse2012 yes ....respects
I will never fall out of love with this song!!😉
Me neither. Timeless. Beautiful.
This song they crafted is the most original, melodically arranged piece of love pop song I ever heard. Elements of Japanese culture and American nostalgia combined in a very intelligent song. I can almost picture an epic Hollywood movie about an American soldier and a Japanese girl love story in world war 2.with this song as an intro or ending credits.
Classic song
Are you really being serious?
GREAT IDEA!!
Haven't there been a few with American soldiers and Asian women? A few forbidden love stories and discovering love children they didn't know about. Even in episodes of tv shows like Air Wolf
Ironically Madam Butterfly was about that… and by Italians wrote the show!@@teerich2011
Lord, that's a beautiful song!
Philip Cousin yes!👈💓
Indeed
Pull a Heart string and sing like an angel
What a great song !! I rememberd back in those days was in the top 5 of America´s top 40. Great days and great memories!
"This version used a koto played by Hazel Payne. A Taste of Honey's version of "Sukiyaki" first appeared on their 1980 album". I could not find Ghetzen anywhere. So, no ghetzen and no man. A woman and a koto. I have three I brought back from Japan. Was stationed there from 2009 to 2012=great memories.
Flory Gomez Amen! You go flory girl Lol
Hi
When the music counted
Song: Sukiyaki
Artist: A Taste of Honey
Album: Twice as Sweet
It's all because of you I'm feelin' sad and blue
You went away, now my life is just a rainy day
I love you so, how much you'll never know
You've gone away and left me lonely
Untouchable memories seem to keep haunting me
Of love so true, that once turned all my gray skies blue
But you've disappeared, now my eyes are filled with tears
I'm wishin' you were here with me
Soft with love are my thoughts of you
Now that you're gone, oh, I don't know what to do
If only you were here, you'd wash away my tears
The sun would shine, and once again you'd be mine, all mine
But in reality, you and I will never be
'Cause you took your love away from me, oh
If only you were here, you'd wash away my tears
The sun would shine, and once again you'd be mine, all mine
But in reality, you and I will never be
'Cause you took your love away from me
Oh, baby, you took your love away from me
Sayonara
Songwriters: Hachidai Nakamura, Rokusuke Ei
Sukiyaki lyrics © Beechwood Music Corp., EMI MUSIC PUBLISHING JAPAN LTD
℗ 1980 Capitol Records, LLC
So Beautiful!
I love them both versions for different reasons. I the solid gold performance it brought chills. It was like an opera.
THIS SONG WILL NEVER FADE. TO BEAUTIFUL.
Love love love this song. The 80s, fantastic love song days.❤❤
"You took your love away from me" February 4,2019 My whole life changed. Mine forever heartbreak. I'm truly missing You. Rest Mine Loving husband. I truly love you.
My condolences. May your husband RIP.
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A Taste Of Honey
"Sukiyaki"
#3, 1981.
Originally by Kyu Sakamoto (#1, 1963).
real music classic old school.
Fuck yeah, my human.
It's all because of you...1 of those songs that will transcend the ages and stand the test of time...#ATasteOfHoney
My twin and I grew up in Tokyo, in the sixties, I miss her so...
+Regina Taylor aww
Awww, so sad, sorry friend, bless u,
Awwh, 😢
"💓REAL COOL💓"
Regina Taylor what happened to your Twin?
I loved it in 1981, and still loving it in 2019
One of my Aunts fav songs, I listen to this when I miss her since she passed away from breast cancer...she was like another mom to me. I'm only 23 but I was raised on this kind of music so when she mentioned this song before she passed I already knew what she was talking about and it hurt cause this song is so beautiful...she passed the day after that convo... RIP. Beautiful song
What! Look at them so beautiful...and they just knew how to end a song in the 80s!
May 1981 this single was number 1..........great song!
I love that song
And in 1963, the original by Kyu Sakamoto reached the top of the billboards 100 in the U.S.
It SUUUUURE IS, Sweet Cookie
Sweet Cookie ..... This song is a CLASSIC. Graduated from HS class of 1981, Plenty nites on the phone with my GF, Her getting ready for college me to the service (later going to college). This song Atlantic Starr, Switch, Ray Goodman & Brown were just a couple of others we would play on the Telephone until seeing who get sleepy first and play the WHO WILL SAY GOOD NITE first ! lol .... We ROMANCED young ladies ..... only the 80's ! ..... Where's my Delorean to take me BACK to the FUTURE !
castortroykrb awww now I love hearing things like that, nothing like true romance. It feels soooo good! Thanks for sharing and have a great ear for music!
Timeless music
I agree! 😊
Beautiful song. Remember this from 9th grade.
OMG, Here we go, its Deja Vu again. this tune wasn't written, it was channeled and is fresh as yesterday.
This song brings back a lot of memories for me still listening in 2019 and beyond
Grew up hearing Kyu Sakamoto's version in Japanese as a little boy in Thailand, rediscovered it again in english by A taste of honey as a teenager in Detroit. Now I just heard a version in french by Clementine and german version by Yvonne Carre. They are all good and soulful, the words are haunting and thanks to A Taste of Honey I will never forget this song. Nirandorn Neville
I heard A taste of Honey's rendition first, but I watched this movie called From Up on Poppy Hill, and it was playing the original song, and I kept thinking, "This song sounds so familiar!" After doing some searching, I was able to find out that this song was a rendition after all. I'm really glad that I now know the original. They're both beautiful in their own unique, and it makes me appreciate how music knows no boundaries, not even the boundaries of language or of a country can stop music.
The lyrics are not the translation from the original version sung by Kyu Sakamoto. Rokusuke Ei wrote the song on his way back from a protest against a Treaty of Mutual Cooperation between the United States and Japan. The protest was a failure and while walking home he wrote this song but left the lyrics a little generic so that it could also relate to lost love. But its about a man looking up to the stars and whistling this tune so his tears won't fall to the ground. Something like that. LoL.
Yeah, I knew it wasn't a translation of it, but it's considered a cover because it uses the same melody. Thanks for the background on the original song though.
Kalani Sproat Thank you.
Gems of information, as here, make the foundation of our knowledge.
Thank you.
I have to laugh when people feel like calling this one original. Pretty funny I heard Kyu Sakamoto's in the 70's when my parents played it or when it ran on the radio. I grew up in the 80's so I sure did listen to both. This one is not bad but there seems to be more emotion to the original. All versions are hauntingly soul filling for sure. We all have our favorites.
I love Taste of Honey
5:00 am, laying in bed hearing Taste Of Honey, man now that's a love song,
Having sweet nostalgic memories of me waiting patiently for the radio to play this so I could TAPE (cassette tap) it....
This has always been a favorite song of mine. It never gets old
Either you like this song or you don't but please stop comparing it to other songs. I don't care if this is a remake of another song. The most people who love this song will probably never listen to the original. So for us this song is an original and a beautiful song. Just leave it at that. My rant is based on reading the comments below. I for one love this song and it will remain one of my favorites from this group.
This is amazing, but whatever you want to call the "original", you should def give it a listen. It's all in Japanese but you can absolutely understand it...you feel it. The actual song is supposed to mean something like he's walking in the rain thinking about a love that he can never be with and in so, leads to his ultimate demise. Both songs are incredibly heart full, but if you haven't, you should listen to Kyu Sakimoto's version. Gave me goosebumps like a mother!!
Hey babe, this version wouldn't be here without Kyu Sakamotos original, that's just a fact, respect it and the comments of others.
richie morii so
richie morii Did I say I didn't respect the original song? No I did not. I commented on the fact that everyone is arguing over which version is best and all I said is that it is a matter of preference. If it were not for UA-cam I would not have ever heard the original and I prefer this version because for me it is an original. So?
perrytheshit My comment relates to the fact that I did go and listen to and seek out the original song. It sounds like a big band song. It is not my cup of tea. Don't get me wrong I don't hate it, it just doesn't get me going. I prefer this song. It really sounds more Japanese than the original believe it or not.
One of the most unique r&b ballads of that year mainly due to the inclusion of the Koto, giving it that nice Japanese flavor...Sukiyaki, as done by Taste Of Honey is delicate, exotic and quite beautiful...
why must it be exotic
+paul simmons well it is a japanese song so i hope it sounds japanese
I couldn't have said it better💯
+paul simmons yep it's incredible how koto fixes well with a "soul" tune... amazing... I had listen to this version on a video of Tokyo by night here in youtube! I wonder if it still around..
You realize this is actually the opposite, this is an old Japanese song from The R&B element is the addition to the song. The Japanese title is Ue wo Muite Arukō, which means I look up as I walk. It's a protest song about continued military presence. A Taste of Honey just changed the lyrics around.
Oh shit a flashback song.
Cruising classic so sweet.
Joey Diaz
I love this song...
Joey Diaz i see u everywhere bruh 😏
Joey Diaz yes
A vintage classic that never GETS old. 💕
This is probably one of the best cover records of all time.
This is not a cover!!! It is original lyrics, not a single word in the Kyu Sakamoto was translated in this theft of concept.
@@jameseast7966 Dude stfu. It's considered a cover by the music industry. No song is going to be literally translated into another language.
@@jameseast7966 Eh, you're splitting hairs but ...
@@spiritgover4223 maybe so, but I know the words of the original. A Taste of Honey version is an ok pop tune, just not true to Mr. Sakamoto's song.
It's all because of you.....
Spring 1981. My 6th grade Jam. Before everything in my life went to hell in a handbasket.
God has a blessing right around the corner for your my friend!
Thank you sir
My life went to hell in a handbasket in the Spring of 1981 too. My father died unexpectedly of a brain hemmoridge. I was ten. My family fell apart after that, so I feel ya!!
Patrick Lewis Ditto!!! My 5th grade song
I was born in spring 1981 when this song was playing. I miss my family members who passed away late November and early to mid December 2017
No more great music like this anymore...I treasure this!🌷
Oh God...
I've been looking for this song so desperately, for years and years !!!!!
Our parents had it best...
😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀
SONG TAKE ME BACK TO HIGH SCHOOL WHEN MY FIRST GIRL FM JAPAN HAD TO LEAVE... SHE LEFT ME WITH KNOW HOW TO LOVE UNCONDITIONALLY..YEP !!! FIRST GIRL SHOWED ME HOW TO CARE
This song make you fall in love
That's a problem people don't wanna fall in love anymore that's why they don't know nothing about this beautiful song....
KantBserious b and then there are some of us that want to fall in love and a person that says they are only friends sends you this song you are very confused and sad
Tinah Lee funny. The original wasn't to do with love
Me love you long time!!!
Tinah Lee did you listen to these words lol
I was 11 when this song came out! Love it then and love it now!
Hippy(Bboomer) THEY didn't come wack on a "OLD SCHOOL TRACK"!!!!
me too! I was 11 as well. good ole days
I was 10
I was 10 🙂
Gotta love the Japanese beat in that song, the song is slow jams material and best one from the continent. #SlowJams
Gorgeous, breath taking, eloquent, elegant, beautiful. And their physical beauty only compliments the music so much more.
I was 11 years old when this came out I remembered being in the restaurant with my family and this song came on it was so beautiful my mom loved it I didn’t realize it was written in Japanese the English version is just as beautiful masterpiece🥰
This song always gets my crying
Me Toooooooo
This song came out in '81 just after my husband died in March.I would play this song over and over because I kept hearing you took your love away from me. If only you were here you would wash away my tears and the sun would shine but in reality that would never be.
It does gives me the feeling of wanting to cry !
Virginia Hinton
So sorry for your loss
Your youtube family has your back !!!!!
I met her in 1967, I an 18 Year old Marine, she was Papasan's daughter. Eighteen months and a lifetime of emotions later, I got orders to Vietnam. It wreck her so bad emotionally. I return to see her on my R and R. We conceived our daughter and again I left, promising to return. I returned home from the war mentally broken and for ten years I struggled with the memory of her and what could have been.
Then I heard The Taste of Honey perform this song and I found peace. I'm back revisiting this tune to remember my youth. It had been an interesting experience.
Song reminds me of my wife who passed away in 2009. "You went away and left me lonely" Here's looking at you, Liz"
God bless.
Kyu Sakamoto's version will always be my favorite, and I don't usually like re-makes, but this is one of the few that I really love.
This song is so beautiful and it ironically is soothing and healing to the soul.
I agree
This song is absolutely beautiful and I love the fact that Janice wrote the lyrics as the original song was sung in Japanese also the fact that Hazel learned to play that Japanese string instrument (I can't think of its name now) for the song. They were very underrated as group.😉
Ccyan wyauvbux dz uuiu bb🎉nimkn😮 in❤
Koto. 😊
Classic..
got this song on 45 great song
Me too lol
yes i love 45 records and albums better than cds
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Lawrence Malloy
I have the 12" and album version on vinyl (of course, it was handed down to me with a billion other records. Nevertheless, I enjoy listening to them and I'm 18. I have nothing but the utmost respect for the golden age music.
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one of my mom's favorite songs I've looked high and low for this song Just so I can hear it For so odd reason I just remembered she has this Record 💿 Either way this is such a beautiful song 👍☺ Thank you for posting this
It's all because of you I'm feelin' sad and blue
You went away, now my life is just a rainy day
I love you so, how much you'll never know
You've gone away and left me lonely
Untouchable memories seem to keep haunting me
Of love so true, that once turned all my gray skies blue
But you've disappeared, now my eyes are filled with tears
I'm wishin' you were here with me
Soft with love are my thoughts of you
Now that you're gone, oh, I don't know what to do
If only you were here, you'd wash away my tears
The sun would shine, and once again you'd be mine, all mine
But in reality, you and I will never be
'Cause you took your love away from me, oh
If only you were here, you'd wash away my tears
The sun would shine, and once again you'd be mine, all mine
But in reality, you and I will never be
'Cause you took your love away from me
Oh, baby, you took your love away from me
Sayonara
there's no sukiyaki, because i eat it all
Beautiful cover but original the best
When this 1st came out loved it didn't know it was a Japanese song until I heard the version song in Tokyo..
+37diamond remember my mom telling me this in the 80's...said it was a big hit.. even though it was sung in Japanese... as a child she loved it.. . heard it for the first time a few years ago... it was nice.. but i like this version better...
A TASTE OF HONEY CLASSIC WHERE ARE THE LADYS OF A TASTE OF HONEY NOW THESES DAYS?
+Russell Hughes they have merged into a giant bee
+Allyosaugh lol...that was cute!
+Allyosaugh Lol
Russell Hughes I'd like to know what HAPPENED TO THEM AS WELL!!! they need to do a unsung on taste of Honey!!! they both were BEAUTIFUL WOMEN!!!!
Russell Hughes Sounds way better
than all these rap bimbos .
she also sang I'll Try Something New, very beautifully
This is a song that'll never get old. It still brings tears to my eyes and makes my heart ache. Beautiful lyrics and talented, beautiful women.
OMG! I forgot about this song. I need a moment of silence. 😢.... OK I'm back wow....love this song so much, memories...
back in the day,,,IM 51 and this song brings a lump in my throat....
sure its not that dick making the lump?:(
This iconic song is still amazing! It really hits you in the heart! What a love song! 🎸🎶❤🎶🎸
I'm a really young person and I listen to music like this
Dimension Exo Thank U 😊
what a fucking legend amiright
This song relaxes me. No stress
Corianna Adams fuck you
Corianna Adams I grew up with 70s80s RocknRoll songs, some concerts were crazy with hardly any security.
For all y,all that thought the MC god Slick Rick created this line, he did not but did damn good re-using it from this classic.......
This is where Slick Rick got that part of the song heard in "La-Di-Da-Di".
So loving another slow jams song "A Taste Of Honey" that made it to #SNSJ and KUMU Quiet Storm. It's why they called it the Slow Jams in the 1st place.
Songs do get the loving attention.
Yes, yes they do
And that's the way they do it
I'm greatful 2 of my favorite slow jams shows aired this song
Same here dude
Awesome
Am I the only one still listening in Oct 2018??? 👍💚
Classic!
Selena has a beautiful version in spanish too !!! i recently find out in the series im so in love with ! her voice was amazing !
Yessirrr 💯 whoaaa God bless these ol skool music 🎶 groups from the 70's,80's,90's after "99" ion new skool completely took over the music 🎶 industry+rap of course ya digg dugg 😁💯 yo the world 🌎 evolves we have to evolve as ppl 💯🤔👍!!!!!
Slick Rick brought me here
+mike stride That's how I found it too.
Same
Same and I'm 14, I just love music and I love to here different genres but 1979-2000 hip hop was one of the best along with Elvis, Jerry Lee Luis and also rap like Eminem and one of my favourite, post malone I just love music Wich is different and unique today's music is random bullshit 😂
Whos Rick?
@@greenbird183 if you don't know then just erase yourself from existence