Minato no Yoko Yokohama Yokosuka - Downtown boogie woogie band

　2009-11-22

"Minato no Yoko Yokohama Yokosuka" or "Harbor gull Yoko and Yokohama Yokosuka ".
This is a song of 1975. This song reminds me of some song of Iggy Pop.
I don't know the back ground of this song,but it is definitely influenced by some American rock of the era.
This song is very odd ,however,it was very popular,and I can tell everybody in Japan knew this weird song and could sing including myself who was only 9 years old. This kind of thing happened a lot in those days. Nowadays few people know number-one hit of Japan.

In this song,it seems a man looks for a missing girl, Yoko, in Yokohama and Yokosuka.The lyric takes a style of replies of some people who know Yoko. Everybody say at the end of the story "Anta anoko no nan-nano-sa?"I don't know how to translate this in cool English ,but this is very rude way to say "What is your connection to her?" It was a very popular phrase,and it sounds funny to me and maybe to most Japanese people.


Yokohama and Yokosuka are both port towns near Tokyo. There was a big U,S camp in Yokohama,and Yokosuka is still a U.S Navy's base.Therefore,the images of the towns are sometimes exotic and wild. Many songs about Yokohama and Yokosuka basically based on these images relating to U.S base..