Season 10, Episode 11 (Patreon)

This week on Victory Gundam: Lupe initiates a fiasco, Uso wants to ask you a question, Marbet and Oliver get some more practice fighting like a married couple, and Shahkti wants to be anywhere but here. Plus, Nina's research on the names of the Shrike Team pilots.

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Show Notes

• Wikipedia pages for Helen Merrill, Mahalia Jackson, Kate Bush, Peggy Lee, and Connie Francis.

• Video of Helen Merrill live in Japan, 1990.

• Article about Mahalia Jackson, "Mahalia Jackson: Gospel Takes Flight," from the National Museum of African American History & Culture.

• A recording of Mahalia Jackson during her Japan and India tour, 1971 (from the Tulane University Digital Library).

• A blog post on Kate Bush in Japan in 1978, by music journalist Sam Liddicott: "Feature: A Fascinating Chapter: Kate Bush and Japan, June 1978." Includes embedded pictures and videos, including for her Seiko watch ads.

• Video: "Kate Bush - Moving (Live from Nippon Budokan Tokyo Music Festival 1978)"

• And another article about Kate Bush in Japan, this time by Fraser Lewry for Louder/Classic Rock magazine: "Kate Bush was once the face of Seiko Watches in Japan, and we have the video to prove it" (also includes lots of great embedded pictures and video).

• Video of Peggy Lee singing Akatombo in 1976 (and the Wikipedia page for Akatombo, for more info on the song itself)

• Fan page with listing of Peggy Lee's foreign album releases and a page about one of her live performance that lists "Akatombo" as one of the songs in the setlist.

• Billboard's obituary for Peggy Lee, Jan. 22, 2002.

• Biography of Connie Francis from her official website (archived).

• Discogs page for the album "Connie Francis – Greatest Hits In Japanese."

• "Connie Francis Sings Greatest Hits in Japanese" on Spotify.

• Wikipedia pages for Ohashi Junko (大橋純子), Sakurada Junko (桜田淳子), and Yagami Junko (八神純子) (links on the romaji names go to English language pages and links on names in kanji go to Japanese language pages).

• Article about Ohashi Junko for daily.co.jp: 「大橋純子さん死去を音楽仲間も追悼　北島三郎「歌、声も一級品」 林哲司氏「新しいボーカリスト」」

• Page listing all of the 2022 inductees into the Women Songwriters Hall of Fame, including Yagami Junko.

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