Credited on the record as 中央合唱団.
この手をつないで [Join These Hands]
1968 · Center [Tokyo] CLS-6 · Tokyo, Japan
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- Artist
- Central Choir
- Credited on the record as
- 中央合唱団
- Title
- この手をつないで [Join These Hands]
- Release
- ＬＰステレオセンターレコード６
- Year
- 1968
- Label
- Center [Tokyo] # CLS-6
- Format
- 7" · EP
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Tokyo, Japan
- Songwriter
- 清村杜夫 (music), 門倉訣 (words)
- Genre
- Japanese Music · Contemporary Folk
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Lyrics
Japanese: この手をつないで 歩いていこう ベトナムの母と子供らに 誰もが平和としあわせを
Notes
B1. Written for the 9th Japan Mothers' Convention, Aug 1967; verse 3 "to the mothers and children of Vietnam, peace and happiness" Center Record CLS-6 (CLS-6-A / CLS-6-B), LP stereo, 33⅓ RPM, "Made by Ongaku Center", 制作＝音楽センター, 東京都新宿区西大久保3-67, ¥400; 合唱＝中央合唱団, 伴奏＝センターオーケストラ, 指揮＝井上頼豊, 編曲＝多泉和人, piano 田村慧子, accordion 松永勇次・木下そんき. Side A: "明日を呼ぼう" (池田ふじ子 words, 寺原伸夫 music), 3'10"; "ふりそそげ春の陽" (新宿合唱団 words, 関忠亮 music), 2'55". Side B: "この手をつないで" (門倉訣 words, 清村杜夫 music), 2'56"; "あかつきの空に" (大西進 words and music), 3'05". The front shows smiling schoolchildren and mothers in a street. The back-sleeve notes say "この手をつないで" was written for the 9th Japan Mothers' Convention (第九回日本母親大会) in August 1967, and that "あかつきの空に" was written after the December 1967 victory of the Kin (喜屋武) land struggle against US base expansion in Okinawa linked to the war in Vietnam, and spread by the 5th Utagoe delegation to…
Themes
Anti-War · Okinawa · Peace · Solidarity · Child
From the release ＬＰステレオセンターレコード６
In collections
Japanese Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]