NHK has announced that it will broadcast the nostalgic "NHK Kohaku Uta Gassen~ 14th Edition" (remastered version) on BS from 9:30 am on March 8th. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the broadcast, the Kouhaku, which had many disturbances in the video, will be reproduced in 4K quality.
The nostalgic "NHK Kohaku Uta Gassen" re-broadcast the entire 22nd edition (1971) in December last year and the 20th edition (1969) in February this year, which caused a great stir. This time, the 14th edition, which was broadcast in 1963, will be the oldest of the Kouhaku episodes that NHK still has footage of in the form of a program.
With the Tokyo Olympics approaching the following year, Kiyoshi Atsumi appeared at the beginning of the program dressed as a torch relay runner. Kazuo Funaki, Yoshio Tabata, Chieko Baisho, and the legendary Saburo Kitajima, who has appeared on "Kohaku" 51 times, made their first appearance.
Other performers included Kyu Sakamoto's "Look Up at the Stars at Night," The Peanuts' "Vacation of Love," Eto Ueki's "Why Am I So Popular?" and "Hondarama March," and Hibari Misora's "Aishuu Shufune." Many of the performers' songs are still famous and sung to this day.
◇List of participants and songs performed at the 14th NHK Kohaku Uta Gassen(titles omitted)
Red Team: Mieko Hirota "Sad Heart" / Miki Nakasone "I Long for Amami" / Keiko Matsuyama "Farewell Admission Ticket" / Izumi Yukimura "Memories of San Francisco" / Komadori Sisters "Floating Weed Shamisen" / Sumiko Sakamoto "Te Quiero Dihiste" / Katsue Takaishi "Town Where Apple Blossoms Bloom" / Toshie Kusunoki "Ginza Kappore" / Chiemi Eri "Let's Dance All Night Long" / Trio Koisans "Iyaa Kanawanwa" / Sayuri Yoshinaga "The Dancer of Izu" / Yukiji Asaoka "Yuri Erabe" Flowers of the Flowers" / Shimakura Chiyoko "Musashino Elegy" / Hatakeyama Midori "The Road to Success" / Nishida Sachiko "When the Heather Flowers Fall" / Koshiji Fubuki "Save the Last Dance for Me" / The Three Graces "I Feel Pretty" / Baisho Chieko "The Sun of the Downtown Area" / Misawa Akemi "Island Blues" / Azusa Michiyo "Hello Baby" / Peggy Hayama "Happy to be Born a Woman" / The Peanuts "Vacation of Love" / Satsuki Midori "Come Ten Days a Week" / Nakao Mie, Ito Yukari, Sono Mari "Cutie Pie Medley" / Misora Hibari "Sadness Departs"
White Team: Yasuo Tanabe "Ask the Clouds" / Hiroshi Moriya "The Toad Oil Seller" / Saburo Kitajima "Guitar Justice" / I George "Danny Boy" / Hiroshi Wada and the Mahina Stars "If You're a Man, Give It a Try" / Jerry Fujio "Someone and Someone" / Koichi Miura "Light of the Heart" / Hisaya Morishige "Flamenco Kappore" / Sumito Tatekawa "If I'm Lucky" / Bonnie Jacks "One Week" / Kenji Kitahara "Young Tomorrow" / Yoshio Tabata "Growing Up on an Island" / Michiya Mihashi "Shooting Star / Murata Hideo's "A Life of Judo" / Hashi Yukio's "Ojo Kichisa" / Frank Nagai's "I Want to See You" / The Dark Ducks' "Kalinka" / Ashino Hiroshi's "Let's Dance with Daddy" / Funaki Kazuo's "High School Senior" / Kyu Sakamoto"Look Up at the Stars at Night" / Hata Teruo's "The Greatest Tactical March in History" / The Duke Aces' "Mr. Bassman" / Kasuga Hachiro's "Woman of Nagasaki" / Ueki Hitoshi's "Why Is He So Popular?" "Honda-ra March" / Minami Haruo's "Love Song of Sado"
