Recent Trends Among Kids
We asked 63 students from the Yamamoto-cho Yamashita Elementary School!

This was everyones favorite 3 songs!!
Favorite Songs Edition
The familiar music on television and radio that capture our hearts.
There are songs that you really like or are really special to you.
What do you think were the results of
our survey on everyones favorite 3 songs?
We placed scores on the top 3 choices
(1st=3 points, 2nd=2 points, 3rd=1 point) and added up the results.
The influence of TV was very strong and votes for theme songs of TV dramas and commercials were numerous. The top 3 were,

Number 1
Innocence of Asia (by Puffy / Epic Sony Records)
Lyrics by the big name musician Yosui Inoue and melody by Tamio Okuda.
The song is sung by Puffy, the cute female duo made up of Ami and Yumi.
Its their first album but has already sold more than 900,000 copies.
Puffys care-free image and the songs hip melody are the album's secret to success.


Number 2
Blue Lightning (by SMAP / Victor Entertainment)
Theme song for the popular group SMAPs ultra-popular TV program called SMAP X SMAP.
Just the fact that they are singing is reason for the second place showing.


Number 3
Cherry (by Spitz / Polydor)
The famous group Spitz whose songs are always heard as drama theme songs or in commercials.
The gentle melodies sung by M. Kusano, T. Miwa, A. Tamura, and T. Sakiyama have captured the hearts of many Japanese regardless of age.


Many songs were mentioned including the recent hits of N. Amuro to the beloved opening song for Sazae-san (a long running Japanese cartoon). Although people may not have heard of a particular song, if the song has a special meaning for you then it qualifies for the Favorite Songs survey. Let us know favorite song and why its special to you!

Send your opinions and impressions by e-mail to:
sndoo2@tth.expo96.ad.jp

The following people cooperated in our survey;

The students of Yamamoto-cho Yamashita Elementary School.
Thanks to everyone including
teachers Sayama, Terasaki, and Sasaki!

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