Thursday, January 03, 2008

Yahoo LAUNCHCAST Song Of The Day-Clyde McPhatter

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Artist:Clyde McPhatter Song:Without Love (There Is Nothing) Album:Deep Sea Ball:The Best Of Clyde McPhatter As lead singer of The Drifters a...
Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Nakajima gets revenge at Junior All Star War

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JWP presented this year's Junior All Star War on New Year's Eve at Korakuen Hall. Unfortunately with all the other big New Year'...

Yahoo LAUNCHCAST Song Of The Day-JoAnn Rosario

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Artist:JoAnn Rosario Song:Serve You Only Album:More, More, More JoAnn Rosario is an expressive contemporary gospel singer. She had a health ...
Tuesday, January 01, 2008

Yahoo LAUNCHCAST Song Of The Day-The Clovers

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Artist:The Clovers Song:Devil Or Angel Album:The Doo Wop Box The Clovers were one of the earliest doo wop groups though not necessarily the ...
Monday, December 31, 2007

Okuda defends JWP Junior Title in Sendai Girls

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Sendai Girls held their latest show Dec. 29 at Zepp Sendai in front of 700 fans. It was Sendai vs Ibuki with Tyrannosaurus Okuda defending h...

Yahoo LAUNCHCAST Song Of The Day-Bessie Smith

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Artist:Bessie Smith Song:St. Louis Blues Album:The Essential Bessie Smith Bessie Smith was known as the Empress Of The Blues and was one of ...
Sunday, December 30, 2007

Ohata wins big in Ibuki

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Ibuki held their final show of 2007 Dec. 24 at Shin-kiba 1st Ring. It had a couple of Ibuki youngsters in the main event and also had a coup...

Yahoo LAUNCHCAST Song Of The Day-Derrick Morgan

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Artist:Derrick Morgan Song:The Hop Album:Independent Jamaica:Songs Of Freedom From The Treasure Isle Derrick Morgan is mostly unknown to mai...
Saturday, December 29, 2007

Yahoo LAUNCHCAST Song Of The Day-Argent

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Artist:Argent Song:Hold Your Head Up Album:All Together Now Hold Your Head Up was the one really big hit by progressive rock group Argent in...
Friday, December 28, 2007

Full card for NEO 10th Anniversary show

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NEO held a press conference to announce the complete card for their Jan. 6 Korakuen Hall show called Be Happy Again. This is their tenth ann...

Yahoo LAUNCHCAST Song Of The Day-Beverly "Guitar" Watkins

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Artist:Beverly "Guitar" Watkins Song:Red Mama Blues Album:Back In Business Beverly "Guitar" Watkins looks like your gran...
Thursday, December 27, 2007

Merry Christmas from JWP

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JWP had one of their dojo shows on Dec. 23. Not surprisingly, the show had a Christmas theme with some typically silly matches. I'll say...

Yahoo LAUNCHCAST Song Of The Day-Crosby, Stills & Nash

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Artist:Crosby, Stills & Nash Song:Teach Your Children Album:Running With Scissors:Motion Picture Soundtrack I guess one of the things th...
Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Yuka Tsuji successfully defends Smackgirl Lightweight Title

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Smackgirl held their big Korakuen Hall show Dec. 26 headlined by a Yuka Tsuji defense of her Smackgirl Lightweight Title. There were other b...

Yahoo LAUNCHCAST Song Of The Day-Professor Longhair

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Artist:Professor Longhair Song:Cherry Pie Album:House Party New Orleans Style:The Lost Sessions 1971-1972 Legendary New Orleans pianist Prof...
Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Carlos Amano wins OZ Academy title shot

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OZ Academy ended the year with a bang on their Dec. 16 Shinjuku FACE show with the completion of the number one contender tournament and the...

Yahoo LAUNCHCAST Song Of The Day-Mandrill

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Artist:Mandrill Song:Love Song Album:Fencewalk:The Anthology Mandrill was a very popular 70s funk group. They're mostly forgotten by mai...
Monday, December 24, 2007

Nakamura to step down as First On Stage president

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Shinjiro Otani held a press conference on Monday to announce that Yoshiyuki Nakamura will step down as president of First On Stage and Otani...

RIP Oscar Peterson

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The CBC reports that all time jazz great Oscar Peterson died today at age 82. He was born Aug. 15, 1925 in Montreal. He studied piano as a c...

Yahoo LAUNCHCAST Song Of The Day-Big Bill Morganfield

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Artist:Big Bill Morganfield Song:Strong Man Holler Album:Ramblin' Mind It must be tough to grow up as the son of one of the greatest blu...