Makkana Taiyō

"Makkana Taiyō" (Japanese: 真赤な太陽) is a song performed by Hibari Misora and the Blue Comets, and released as a single in 1967. It reached number 1 on the Japanese singles chart according to Billboard, and sold 1.4 million copies. The song has been called "Red Hot Sun" in English. It was written by Nobuo Hara. It has been covered many times, by artists such as The Ventures, King Curtis, and the Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra. The song uses a pentatonic scale.

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  1. 1 2 ちょうど50年前･1967/5/25 GSブームから生まれた美空ひばりの大ヒット‘真っ赤な太陽’リリース【大人のMusic Calendar】. News Online. Nippon Broadcasting System. 25 May 2017.
  2. ↑ Billboard. 12 August 1967. p 62.
  3. ↑ "allmusic.com". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2 January 2008.
  4. ↑ Pops In Japan No.2 (1968) Liberty catalogue number LP-8351
  5. ↑ 君だけに愛を (King Curtis Plays Japanese Hits). 1968. Atlantic catalogue number SMAT-2002.
  6. ↑ Grand Prix. 1995. Epic catalogue number ESCB 1591.
  7. ↑ Michael K Bourdaghs. Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-pop. Columbia University Press. New York. 2012. p 124.