The Tigers (Japanese band)

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The Tigers
OriginJapan
Genres
Polydor
MembersKenji Sawada (Vocal)
Ittoku Kishibe (Vocal,Bass)
Shiro Kishibe (Vocal, Guitar, Tambourine)
Kahashi Katsumi (Guitar, Vocal)
Taro Morimoto (Guitar)
Minoru Hitomi (Drums)
Nobuo Satake (Drums)

The Tigers were a Japanese

Group Sounds era.[1] The group featured Kenji Sawada as their lead singer, and were signed by Watanabe Productions
.

The group was first named "The Funnies", and was formed in 1966. Their first TV performance was on November 15, 1966 on The Hit Parade. The band was renamed to "The Tigers" by recommendation of the show's director Koichi Sugiyama, who would later go on to compose many of their songs.[2] They appeared in several Japanese movies in the late 1960s.[3]

The Tigers recorded "

The Bee Gees, which was released as a single in July 1969 in the UK and Japan. Also in March 1969, the group was featured on the cover of the US magazine Rolling Stone, the cover story was about rock music in Japan
.

On 24 January 1971, The Tigers held their last concert, The Tigers Beautiful Concert, at the

Pyg
, in 1971.

In 1981, they reunited.[citation needed]

Singles

Year Title
(A-side/B-side)
1967 "My Mary" / "Let Me See You Baby"
"Seaside Bound" / "Prince in the Heaven"
"Mona Liza's Smile" / "Red Jacket"
1968 "Love Only For You" / "The Story of the Falling Leaves"
"Flower Necklace"/"Romance in the Milky Way" (Double A Side)
"C-C-C" / "Knight in the Night"
"A White Dove" / "The Glorious World"
"Blue Bird" / "Jinjin Banban"
1969 "A Decree Of Love" / "The Wind Doesn't Know"
"Grief" / "Barefoot"
"Smile For Me" / "Rain Falls on the Lonely"
"Now I Forgive You" /"Love, Love, Love"
1970 "Solitude in the City" / "Ring the Bell of Anger"
"The Free Travel" / "The Falling of Youthful Days"
"Promise For Future" / "Nothing But Departure"

Movies

References

  1. ^ "ザ・タイガース(ザ・タイガース)の情報まとめ | OKMusic - 全ての音楽情報がここに". okmusic.jp. Retrieved 2023-07-22.
  2. ^ "The Tigers". Archived from the original on 2005-12-15.
  3. ^ "IMDB". IMDb.

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