"Makkana Taiyō" (Japanese: 真赤な太陽) is a song performed by Hibari Misora and the Blue Comets, and released as a single in 1967.ちょうど50年前･1967/5/25 GSブームから生まれた美空ひばりの大ヒット‘真っ赤な太陽’リリース【大人のMusic Calendar】. News Online. Nippon Broadcasting System. 25 May 2017. It reached number 1 on the Japanese singles chart according to Billboard,Billboard. 12 August 1967. p 62. and sold 1.4 million copies. The song has been called "Red Hot Sun" in English. It was written by Nobuo Hara. It has been covered many times, by artists such as The Ventures,Pops In Japan No.2 (1968) Liberty catalogue number LP-8351 King Curtis,君だけに愛を (King Curtis Plays Japanese Hits). 1968. Atlantic catalogue number SMAT-2002. and the Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra.Grand Prix. 1995. Epic catalogue number ESCB 1591. The song uses a pentatonic scale.Michael K Bourdaghs. Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-pop. Columbia University Press. New York. 2012. p 124.
See also 1967 in Japanese music
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