Credited on the record as 中央合唱団.
あかつきの空に [In the Dawn Sky]
1968 · Center [Tokyo] CLS-6 · Tokyo, Japan
![あかつきの空に [In the Dawn Sky] – Central Choir (Sleeve (front))](/im/VWSP4922-3.webp)
- Artist
- Central Choir
- Credited on the record as
- 中央合唱団
- Title
- あかつきの空に [In the Dawn Sky]
- 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
- 大西進 [Susumu Ōnishi]
- Genre
- Japanese Music · Contemporary Folk
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Lyrics
Japanese: あかつきの空に 芽を育て ベトナムに 思いこめ 爆音にたじろがず 命かけ 土守る
Notes
B2. Okinawa farmers resisting US base expansion for the Vietnam war (Kin land struggle, Dec 1967); "Vietnam and Sunagawa" — solidarity with Vietnam, bombers overhead 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…
Themes
Anti-War · Okinawa · Solidarity · Japan
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]