Sukiyaki and Other Japanese Hits is an album by Japanese singer Kyu Sakamoto released in 1963 in the United States by Capitol Records. All of the songs on the album are performed in Japanese and feature the title track, a #1 hit in the U.S. for three weeks in 1963, and peaking at #6 in the UK when issued by EMI on its His Master's Voice label. The 'b'-side, "Anoko No Namaewa Nantenkana", and a cover of "Good Timin'", a hit in 1960 for R&B singer Jimmy Jones, in both the US and the UK.

The album is subtitled .

The album was part of the "Capitol of the World" series.Janet Borgerson. Designed for Hi-Fi Living: The Vinyl LP in Midcentury America. The MIT Press. 2017. ISBN 9780262036238. p 301. The album was originally released in mono,Capitol catalogue number T 10349 along with a duophonic (electronic stereo) versionCapitol catalogue number DT 10349 by Capitol Records, this being the singer's only full-length album in the West.

It was a solid success,Wayne Jancik. The Billboard Book of One-hit Wonders. Billboard Books. 1990. ISBN 0823075303. p 138. reaching number 14 on the Billboard Top LPs Monoaural 150 chart"Billboard Top LPs". Billboard. 20 July 1963. p 24. and number 47 on the Billboard Top LPs Stereo 50 chart."Billboard Top LPs". Billboard. 3 August 1963. p 30. It debuted at number 7 on the Variety Album Bestsellers chartVariety. 26 June 1963. p 53. and reached number 6 on that chart.Variety. 17 July 1963. p 67. It reached number 15 on the Cash Box Monoaural Top 100 albums chart,Cash Box. 20 July 1963. p 21. and number 25 on the Cash Box Stereo Top 50 albums chart.Cash Box. 27 July 1963. p 21.

Reception The Billboard review of the album rated it as a Billboard pop spotlight pick."Album Reviews". Billboard. 15 June 1963. p 29. The album was also reviewed in High Fidelity,OBB. High Fidelity. September 1963. p 114. Variety"Sweet Chariot, Sakamoto's Sukiyaki, Mancini's Uniquely Top New LPs" in "Record Reviews". Variety. 19 June 1963. p 52. and Cash Box."Popular Picks of the Week" in "Album Reviews". Cash Box. 8 June 1963. p 22. Sukiyaki . . . and other hits was reviewed in Pop Weekly.Peter Aldersley. "And The Top 4 LPs" in "Discussion". Pop Weekly. Week ending 2 November 1963. (Second Series, No 10). (Craven House, Edgware Road, London).

Track listing Side one Ue o muite arukō (Sukiyaki) Tsun Tsun Bushi (The Tsun Tsun Song) Hitoribocchi No Futari (The Lonesome Two) Kyu-chan Ondo (The Kyu-Chan Folk March Song) Mo Hitori No Boku (It's Just Not the Real Me) Good Timin'

Side two Boku No Hoshi (My Star) Kiminanka Kiminanka (I Couldn't Care for You, Not You, Not You!) Kyu-chan No Zuntatatta (The Zuntatatta Song) Hige No Uta (My First Whisker) Goodbye, Joe Anoko No Namaewa Nantenkana (I Wonder What Her Name Is)

Personnel 1-1, 1-3, 2-2, 2-4, 2-6 (Rokusuke Ei/Hachidai Nakamura); 1-2 (Kyu Sakamoto/Trad, arr Hiroaki "Tessho" Hagiwara); 1-4, 2-3 (Yukio Aoshima/Danny Iida); 1-5 (Yukio Aoshima/Hachidai Nakamura); 1-6 (Fred Tobias/Clint Ballard, Jr./Kenji Sazanami); 2-1 (Yoji Yamada/Danny Iida); 2-5 (Hans-Artur Wittstatt/Günter Loose/Norman Newell/Kenji Sazanami) recorded in Tokyo by Koji Kusano produced in the U.S.A. by Dave Dexter, Jr.

See also 1963 in Japanese music

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