Growing up, family parties would wind down around our favorite special occasion appliance. My father clumsily ran cables from the karaoke machine into our television, transforming the living room into ...

The Hot 100 launched in 1958, just 13 years after the end of World War II. The war was still well within living memory, and I have to imagine that it left deep psychic wounds all across the globe. And ...

Halie Loren re: Sukiyaki (You Took Your Love Away from Me) Sad lyrics set to happy music are my favorite kind of salty-sugary treat. The original version of this song ...

A total of 71 celebrities, including Akiko Wada, Masahiko Kondo and Yuko Takeuchi, gathered to perform versions of Kyu Sakamoto’s Ue wo muite arukou (Sukiyaki song) and Miagete goran yoruno hoshi wo.