TOKYO —

A unreleased song by enka singer Misora Hibari, who passed away at the age of 52 in 1989, will be released in October, her agent said. The song, titled “Au wa wakren,” was recently found in the warehouse of a record company. According the company, the song was recorded in 1968 but never released.

The song will be introduced in TV Asahi’s special program on Misora on Saturday night as well as sold at Misora Hibari Museum in Kyoto from Oct 1.

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  soothsayer at 08:29 PM JST - 27th September

  Of course, the only way you could tell this song apart from every other enka song ever recorded is to look at the label on the disc.

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  presto345 at 11:46 PM JST - 27th September

  Of course, the only way you could tell this song apart from every other enka song ever recorded is to look at the label on the disc.

  What label, what disk? There was probably only one master disk which was never reproduced.

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  lipscombe at 02:07 AM JST - 28th September

  the words "sake" "snow and/or rain" and "lonely" will all feature prominently in this song

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  Sammi33 at 08:23 AM JST - 28th September

  Guess what, blues/country music all have similar themes from song to song. Amazing how people attack the genre, when the fact is that Misora Hibari had a great talent and it's almost a miracle that we can hear new stuff, almost like from beyond the grave.

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  lipscombe at 01:00 PM JST - 28th September

  Amazing how people attack the genre,

  nothing amazing about it, all cookie cutter genres deserve it and few are as rigidly formulaic as enka

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  Sammi33 at 03:40 PM JST - 28th September

  And by the way, if you've ever listened to Misora Hibari's songs she covered many styles, not just dreary enka songs, she did jazz, upbeat traditional bushi and ondo, and a lot of just pure classic material so this song could be anything.

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