Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

　The movie "Tokyo March" was released on May 31, 1929, and the theme song was released from Victor Records. The best thing I sang Ginza

 

　The willow of Ginza that I miss a long time ago

　Who knows how to grow the year?

　Dance with jazz and recurl

　The dancer's tears and rain

 

　If you refer to Seidensticker's Tokyo March ("Tokyo March") English translation for reference ("TOKYO RISING").

 

 The Ginza willows bring thoughts of the past.

 Who will know the aging, fickle woman?

 Dancing to jazz, liqueur into the small hours.

 And in the dawn a flood of tears for the dancer.

 

　(Copy from wikipedia, public domain confirmed)

 

　　Kafu also touched on "Tokyo March Song" in "Nissha" on June 25, 1929.

"I walk around Ginza with a song at night. There is a shop selling phonographs at the corner of Sanchome. Listen to popular songs played by phonographs in a group of walks. Tojiro Kutsukake and the reason of the popular song. At this time, the song was very popular, including the caffee at the downtown area (all over) and the colored town on the mountainside. Others Habu no Minato Kimikoi Tokyo March, etc. Ifu folk songs have been popular since this spring and have come to this day. The poor lyrics of the lyrics are not as good as words, and only those that are wide Tokyo Koi deity and Ifu. "

 

　The song can be seen and heard on "You Tube" along with the scenery of Tokyo at that time.