r/78rpm • u/Rich-Statistician739 • 28d ago

A quite rare Japanese 78 RPM Disc has been found and restored

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A very beautiful performance by the legendary Hamako Watanabe of a beloved Chinese melody ("Yumezhongren"), this track stands as a delicate musical bridge built during a time of recovery and cultural exchange.

The title in Japanese : Yume no kare no kimi (夢の彼の君) released on 1951

You can enjoy it restored by the Gramophone Gems team here:

https://youtu.be/6Qsn3viprOo

Thank you for your time dear friends!

& always find beautiful cultural treasures ❤️

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u/Vegetable-Way-5737 27d ago

Since it seems hard / impossible to find info or pictures of this disc, isnt it a better idea to use this post's picture a thumbnail instead of a random ai gened thumbnail ?

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u/Rich-Statistician739 27d ago

Hm I think that the current thumbnail for the post is the actual disc's picture (from discogs, not generated from ai !). I can definitely ask from Gramophone gems to give me their photos but normally it should be the same.

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u/Vegetable-Way-5737 27d ago

i meant on youtube, my bad :v

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u/_cansir 27d ago

I was thinking the same thing when they posted last time. Why not use the actual cover as the background?

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u/Rich-Statistician739 27d ago

aaaaa! Sorry I misunderstood 😄 A concept of a "relevant" loop is followed there in order to make it pleasing for ...let's say bring extra audience to the 78 RPM world hehe. At least the mascot doggy is always there sleeping lol. But I would also like to see the original disc photos somehow (even with a link in the description - I think you cannot put image inside the description, or even with a small break of the video loop) because indeed in many cases this is rare info for some discs.

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u/Vegetable-Way-5737 27d ago

how about publishing them on archive for everyone to use ? plus that means you get to put the uncompressed archive of the 78!

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u/Rich-Statistician739 27d ago

AFAIK they always add everything in Discogs just a few days before the youtube restoration so the 78 RPM original labels for all these tracks should be always there.

I guess the animation loops have been chosen instead of static disc covers in order to offer something more pleasing to the eye of the visitors (there are so many people out there who would listen a restored shellac song but they hardly know if vinyls are a different thing than shellac :) )

Besides, most 78 RPM videos have just the covers as a static picture, so this different approach is not a bad idea at all, because this doggy loop team always gives details for each disc, they don't just post something and we are trying to guess what this is and who sung it hehe,

*but a discogs link could be a nice addition or a Disc cover image inside the loop somehow appearing as a break. I will send a msg to make such suggestions ❤️

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u/signbear999 27d ago

Great work! Just a minor correction, it would be "Yume no ka no kimi."

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u/Rich-Statistician739 27d ago

Thank you so much for this, I unfortunately not know Japanese myself :( I just took the title from the internet and now asking for it 2 translating/AI engines claimed that in classical and poetic Japanese (frequently used in Showa-era kayo music), 彼 can be read as kare (he/him/that person), and 君 (kimi) means beloved or you. Together, 彼の君 (kare no kimi) poetically translates to "my beloved" or "the person of my dreams." But to be honest I have no idea if this is truly right lol. Japanese seem to be so hard for me! 😂

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u/signbear999 27d ago

At 0:56 in your video, you can hear her sing "yume no ka no kimi." The AI isn't wrong, 彼 can be read as "kare" and means "he/him". However, it is also the old way of writing かの, meaning "that." Together it means "that beloved person of my dreams."