Served in Okinawa, 3 years, early 80's. I love the Japanese people. I learned to speak Japanese. When I heard this song and understood it, I learned to sing it. I would go to pubs with my Japanese friends and they wanted me to sing this song on Karaoke. I'm blonde and blue eyes, and the crowd got crazy. One night they had me sing that song 3 times in a row. I sure miss my Okinawin friends. 😢
Qué tristeza!!, está bonita, alegre y combinada con nostalgia y lo mismo de esperanza de ver a su baby, asomándose desde el cielo, me llena de ternura!😢😂, la escuché por primera vez en los 90's y sin saber inglés, comprendí su hermosa canción!😂!,, hoy conozco en su video, a este gran cantante japonés! Lastima por nosotros! , pegó allay está ahora con "su baby"😢😊
This song is terrific. One of a kind. Am 71 and remember it well. This was a time that's so different than today. Am so glad to have grown up in this era. 😊
I look up when I walk So that the tears won't fall Remembering those spring days But I am all alone tonight I look up when I walk Counting the stars with tearful eyes Remembering those summer days But I am all alone tonight Happiness lies beyond the clouds Happiness lies above the sky I look up when I walk So that the tears won't fall Though the tears well up as I walk For tonight I am all alone (Whistling) Remembering those autumn days But I am all alone tonight Sadness lies in the shadow of the stars Sadness lurks in the shadow of the moon I look up as I walk So that the tears won't fall Though the tears well up as I walk For tonight I am all alone (Whistling)
Thank you for your time with translation of this BEAUTIFUL MELODY.... I remember when I was a child I would hear this song on the radio on KRLA 1110 AM.. art laboe and huggy boy along with wolfman Jack they would play this every now and then I never knew what it was saying I just knew it sounded extremely beautiful but I just wanted to thank you for your time with the translation of it...
When Japan airplane crashed in August 12,1985 my mother cried so much that I still remember her tearful eyes . Now both of them are in heaven and I hear this fateful song with smile on my face . From California
OMG I grew up listening to this song when I was growing up in the early 60’s, and I’m sitting here listening to this in 2023 with a big smile on my face. Thank you for sharing such a wonderful song and bringing back such fond memories. 🙏🏻 🇬🇧
@@torralba4349 We are almost the same age, I just turned 67 at the end of November? My Mum loved listening to this song and it took me straight back to the good old days?
It hit the top of the charts in 1963. Thats right. Its one of two songs sung 100% in a foreign language that made it to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US! That should let you know this song touched a lot of nerves in 1963. It certainly hit mine at age 11 hearing it on the radio. Still does in 2023.
@@user-jd1wp5pq3q see the article in babble magazine entitled: The 8 Foreign Songs That Topped The Charts in US. Very informative. Just saw it. Google it.
My grandmother who helped raise me passed away this year, as we were going through her stuff my mother gave me some records my grandfather brought back from japan in the korean war and I had to find more music like it and it led me to this, its a beautiful song and its been helping me mourn these last few months. It's so sad but makes me happy at the same time
May your dear grandmother rest in peace, it’s always great to find what grandparents loved and what me memories they cherished. Sending Love & condolences from England 🏴🇬🇧
this gentleman had such a great voice. nothing but the Best may he rest in peace. we need more people like him. people today have no idea how this singer was.God Bless.
When you have a song stuck in your head and can't remember anything but the melody, and everyone you hum it too knows the whole thing and they don't know what song it is or any lyrics either... it's always this song.
Yes. I first heard this in 1962, when it began being played on the radio, here in the U.S. I had gotten a transistor radio two years earlier, when I was five years old. This song...it still sounds the same, still makes me feel the same way, fifty years later. Incredible. Still the same feeling.
I was 15 and a Sophomore in high school when this song came out. It was a huge hit with all of us teens. Somehow, this song sang to the young people back then. Great song. Great singer ! Great memories ! 💙
I could never remember when I heard this song played and about what year, so all my life I've hummed it's melody, but no one, not even a DJ, could tell me what it's title was. I was listening to RU-vid songs from my past, and when I got to listen to snippets of 1963, I shrieked when I heard the melody I have hummed all my life. Seems I was just 15 when I heard it played a lot on my little transistor radio. I'm now 75, and no one was ever able to help me, seeing I didn't know what year it was out. thank you, Jesus! I have to do some research now, on a tiny miracle that has been a sad thing all my life....Thank you for uploading this song.
This is love song. It was called sukiyaki a Japanese food dish of soup, meat, noodles, which has nothing to do with the words of the song, it was just catchy name.
I look up as I walk So that the tears won't fall Remembering those spring days And tonight, I am all alone I look up as I walk Counting the stars with tearful eyes Remembering those summer days And tonight, I am all alone Happiness lies beyond the clouds Happiness lies beyond the sky I look up as I walk So that the tears won't fall But the tears well up as walk For tonight, I am all alone
My mother had another version of this record in the early '40 war years. I loved it ever since I was stationed TDY in Washington Heights Tokyo Japan in the early '60s - attended the Kodokan for Judo & Waseda University where I studied Aikido. Learned enough Japanese to get around, although English was spoken making my experience more than memorable. Always remembered the kindness of Yrico Asano among many others.
when I was ten , we lived in Brazil, this song was always playing on TV, radio. I loved this song! Heard it on the ship we travelled in , on our way to South Africa. Music does that, it triggers memories.
i hear this and im back to age 5, there was always music playing in our home .Im 65 now hearing this song does send shivers down my spine ,bring a tear to my eye , but also brings a smile and beutyfull memories
I remember hearing this song for the first time when I was a boy. I never forgot it and still to this day it touches me. Even though I can't understand the words it is a beautiful sad song.
I remember listening to this song on the radio when I was a teenager. I didn't understand the lytics, but the melody and his voice was enough for me. Beautiful song!❤
The original title (he wrote the song himself, I think) is "Ue O Muite Arukou" ("I Look Up When I Walk"). The singer has to look up as he walks, so his tears won't hit the ground.
By far my favorite song. I first heard it when I was about six. I fell in love with Japanese culture as a young girl. My daughter is one quarter Japanese, and she has a younger half-sister unfortunately their dad chose drugs over his daughters. I still love Japan and the culture. I will always love this song.
My condolences to his family. That song has brought so many good family memories over 60 years. My twin uncles (only 8 years older than I) used to listen to the radio and I'd try to sing along. Ive hummed it for all these years and am happy to have found it on You Tube.
I was 10 years old, my sister 13 in 1963 when this song was a hit. We bought the 45 and played it, never knowing the lyrics. Like so many others, we just loved the song. It seemed happy, sweet, romantic.
I bought his first album in Tokyo in 1963 - it has this song on it. It is red vinyl and the album jacket is blue with a pic of Kyu on it. Still have it after all these years - I can still sing the song in Japanese, after all these decades. A beautiful song of lost love.
This is actually the theme song of a Japanese movie in which the singer is also the main actor. It is a colour film, once shown on TV in Hong Kong with dialogues dubbed in Cantonese😊.
@@PillecukorCica “Ue o muite aruko” 上を向いて歩こう, directed by Masuda Toshio (舛田利雄) and produced by Nikkatsu (日活株式会社), 1962. DVD available, but seems to be in Japanese only. Colour. Hong Kong’s version was named “關東少年營”.
WILL ALWAYS LOVE HIM ! WAS YOUNG GIRL WHEN I FIRST HEARD HIM SING ! WILL ALWAYS LOVE FOREVER ! MISS YOU SO MUCH BUT YOUR ALWAYS IN MY HEART AND MIND! ❤💕💋💥💯
I first heard this song at house party in my neighborhood, an African American neighborhood in Houston, Texas USA, 1997. Can't deny good music no matter where your from!
My mom made me listen to this version. After I had her hear 4pm's version when I was a kid. She told me 'that's not the original song'. And had played this on a cassette tape she had. Ever since then I have loved this version of the song more. So when I hear it I think of her.
When I was a child, 4 or 5, i sang this song whenever it came on the radio. My family would wonder how i understood and could sing along. My aunt actually asked my mom how i knew and sang to it.
Mesmo sem saber o que dizia a canção, minha mãe sempre gostou dela e passou esse gosto para mim, que nasci no ano de seu lançamento. É simplesmente maravilhosa! 🙏🏻🙅🏼♀️😘🤩🥰🙌👏🇪🇪💙🇨🇬🧉🇧🇷
Let us walk towards the top 上を向いて歩こう so as not to spill tears 涙がこぼれないように spring day to remember 思い出す 春の日 lonely night 一人ぽっちの夜 Let us walk towards the top 上を向いて歩こう Counting the blurred stars にじんだ星をかぞえて summer days to remember 思い出す 夏の日 lonely night 一人ぽっちの夜 happiness is above the clouds 幸せは 雲の上に happiness is in the sky 幸せは 空の上に Let us walk towards the top 上を向いて歩こう so as not to spill tears 涙がこぼれないように walking while crying 泣きながら 歩く lonely night 一人ぽっちの夜 autumn days to remember 思い出す 秋の日 lonely night 一人ぽっちの夜 sorrow is behind the stars 悲しみは星のかげに sorrow is behind the moon 悲しみは月のかげに Let us walk towards the top 上を向いて歩こう so as not to spill tears 涙がこぼれないように walking while crying 泣きながら 歩く lonely night 一人ぽっちの夜 lonely night 一人ぽっちの夜
I too cried alone.. when you lost your first love…. This song tells the heart break of the young man. I just love this song.R.I.P. 😢😢😢😢😢🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸👏👏👏👏☮️☮️☮️🍺🍺💕🥰
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