: 3 REQUESTS, 9 JAPS, $10.00 TIP
Among this 9 Japanese guests, 3 requested different songs – Dancing All Night by the guy at left, back row, Tokino Nagareni Mia Makase by one of the ladies and Yume No Tochu by the guy 2ndfrom right, back row, who is also the one that gave $10.00 tip. He said to me,“I remember you.”
B R E A D
I was in Japan in April 04-Sept. 28, 1982 playing with “The First Quarter Band”, a 5-member band composed of lady singer Jane Ramas, Frankie Ganalon as lead guitar, Toto as drummer, Matt as bass guitar and me on the keyboard (I’m using an electon organ with bass pedal). Because Matt was the ‘weakest’ among us because he’s not experienced enough, I usually play the bass pedal to support the band’s weakness.
Our schedules of performances at Hayashida Hotel in Kagoshima City were 12:00 noon-12:30; 30 minutes break; 1:00pm-1:30 pm; 6:00-6:30 pm; 30 minutes break; 7:00-7:30pm; 30 minutes break and 8:00-8:30 pm.
The band’s day off is Monday and I’m playing at Celestial Bar of the hotel for extra income. I have the same time of performances as the band’s performances but only during evening.
At 1:30 pm, most of the time, we’re doing window shopping on our way to our apartment. One afternoon, we passed by at a music store where original cassette tapes were being sold. Jane, our singer, asked me to help her to look for “Bread”, a very popular American band whose hits songs include “Aubrey”, “Baby I’m A-Want You”, “Belonging”, “Diary”, “Everything I Own”, “Games of Magic”, “If”, “Make It With You” and “The Guitar man”.
When Bread disbanded, its lead singer David Gates still continue doing solo and carried himself very well with some hits like “Clouds”, “Goodbye Girl” and “Take Me Now”.
I started to look for Bread in the hundreds of cassette tapes on display. Jane became impatient and asked me again, “Have you found any Bread?”
WHAT HAPPENED NEXT IS FUNNY AND SURPRISING!!!
I shouted to her when I found something different but better. I said, “JANE, I FOUND “BREAD”WITH BUTTER INCLUDED!!! I didn’t know that there is a group of musician and their name is BREAD AND BUTTER!
We all laughed and had good time learning about Bread And Butter!
CONTINUATION OF “MY REPERTIORE OF INTERNATIONAL SONGS”
Half of “D” (33 songs)
DADDY’S HOME (Cliff Richard) R 26
DAHIL MAHAL KITA (Boyfriends) (Filipino Song) OPM 27
DAHIL SA ISANG BULAKLAK (Filipino Song) OPM 31
DAHIL SA IYO (Filipino Song) OPM 28
D A I T E (Japanese Song) J 8
DANCING ALL NIGHT (Japanese Song) J 10
1976 DANCING QUEEN (Abba) DB255
DANDANSOY (Filipino Song) OPM 78
DANIEL (Elton John) G 37
1913 DANNY BOY (Irish Song) DBI 37
DANNY’S SONG (Loggins & Messina) R 19
1945 DAY BY DAY DB140
1955 DAY-O (Banana Boat) (Harry Belafonte)
1962 DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES DB141
DAY TRIPPER (Beatles) R 209
DEEP IN MY HEART (Jose Mari Chan) (Filipino Song) OPM180
1979 DÉJÀ VU (Dioone Warwick) R 129
DELILAH (Tom Jones) G 37
DELTA DAWN (Tanya Tucker) G 39
DEREBCHESIIL (Palauan Song) DBI 62
DESCENDENTS OF DRAGON (Taiwanese Song)
1984 DESERT MOON (Dennis De Young) DB 48
1973 DESPERADO (Eagles) G 41
196 DEVOTED TO YOU (Everly Brothers) B 189
D. H. LOBANG (Palauan Song) DBI 69
1957 D I A N A (Paul Anka) B 70
D I A R Y (Bread) R 130
DICK AND JANE (Bobby Vinton)
196 DIDN’T WE (Frank Sinatra) (Paul Williams) G 43
DIL DIL LOMAIS (Palauan Song) G P 17
1985 DI NA NATUTO (Gary Valenciano) (Filipino Song) OPM 45
DITO BA (Kuh Ledesma) (Filipino Song) OPM 74
DIYOS LAMANG ANG NAKAKAALAM (Filipino Song) OPM 43
DO I HAVE TO SAY THE WORDS (Bryan Adams) G 45
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