Credited on the record as 朝倉理恵.
ダーちゃんどこへ行く [Da-chan, Where Are You Going?]
1974 · CBS/Sony SOLB-167 · Tokyo, Japan
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- Artist
- 朝倉理恵 [Rie Asakura]
- Credited on the record as
- 朝倉理恵
- Title
- ダーちゃんどこへ行く [Da-chan, Where Are You Going?]
- Release
- ダーちゃんどこへ行く / 鐘を鳴らすのはだれ
- Year
- 1974
- Label
- CBS/Sony # SOLB-167
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Tokyo, Japan
- Songwriter
- いずみたく (Taku Izumi)
- Genre
- Japanese Music · Kayōkyoku · Pop
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Notes
Released 1 August 1974. Based on Katsumoto Saotome's children's book ベトナムのダーちゃん (Da-chan of Vietnam). Addressed to a Vietnamese war-orphan girl: barefoot and alone, dreaming of her homeland's blue sky; her mother 'became a star'; urged to endure poverty and walk on until she can return home, where the girls will one day make flowers bloom on the ravaged land. Lyrics 岩谷時子 (Tokiko Iwatani), arr. 青木望 (Nozomu Aoki). B-side 鐘を鳴らすのはだれ (same writers).
About the artist
Japanese singer and actress, born 5 April 1953 in Tokyo; sang children's songs, anime and CM songs as a child under the name Taeko Sakurai, passed a CBS/Sony audition in 1972 and debuted as Rie Asakura in 1973 with 'Ano Basho Kara'. [Source: Wikipedia (Japanese)]
Themes
Anti-War · Vietnamese Children · Orphan · Refugees · Poverty
In collections
Amerasians, Orphans & Vietnamese Children · Japanese Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years] · Vietnamese Refugees & Boat People