Unknown song from 1940s or earlier

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This Japanese song might be hard to recognize, because it is sung by a Swedish entertainer who doesn't know Japanese! He learned it from a record, and this half-minute clip is from Swedish radio in 1947.
Can anyone tell me what song this is?

 

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ﾋ愿､窶堙??堋ｩ窶堋ｵ窶堋ｽﾂ ﾂ ﾂ ﾂ湘｣ﾅ陳ｴ 窶｢qﾂ ﾂ ﾂ静ｳ窶伉青静ｵﾂ静ｧ窶佚｣ - YouTube

 

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Thank you so much! The song is also at ﾋ愿､窶堙??堋ｩ窶堋ｵ窶堋ｽﾂ ﾂ湘｣ﾅ陳ｴ窶廾ﾂ ﾂ静ｵﾂ静ｧ窶佚｣ﾂ 窶佚･窶愬塚?ｸﾆ椎槌坦ﾂーﾆ檀ﾂ（ﾂ渉ｺ窶啀窶啖窶扼窶楼ﾅ?ﾃｺﾂ） - YouTube , but with much worse sound quality. That version is interesting anyway, because the uploader wrote a longer comment including these credits:

ﾂ催ｬ窶ｹﾃ按・窶懌?｡ﾅ津ｻﾂ 窶ｹﾃｮ窶｢v

The composer. I found some information on him here.

窶｢ﾃ停?ｹﾃ按・窶卍ｷ窶凖δ 窶ｹ`ﾅｽi

The arranger. He has a Japanese Wikipedia page

ﾂ催ｬﾅｽﾅ陳・窶忱ﾂ ﾂ青ｭﾅｽﾂ｡ﾂ ﾂ（窶卍≫?｢ﾆ陳 ﾂ重窶ｰﾂｪﾃ伉・窶伉昶?｢ﾃ｢ﾂ）

The lyricist which I haven't found any information about. Do you know?

 

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No information on the internet about 土政治, at least from the simple search. Probably a very minor past writer.
I myself don't know the song itself, just searched for the phrase of the song and got the hit.
I think your Swedish version is fun and great. The original is a war song, so has a bit of a sad feeling in it.

 

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The name of the lyrics writer is ﾂ湘｣ﾂ青ｭﾅｽﾂ｡, not 窶忱ﾂ青ｭﾅｽﾂ｡.



This site has a database of 909 Japanese pop songs from 1928 to 1958. The search result says that ﾂ湘｣ﾂ青ｭﾅｽﾂ｡ wrote only this lyrics. The existence the supplementary lyrics writer 窶卍≫?｢ﾆ陳重ﾂ坂? might suggest that he was an amature writer.

 

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Great! This version of the song title (伜でかした instead of 倅でかした) also has a lot more hits on the net, so with your help I've found lots of information I don't understand.

So what is the title? Google Translate says "I lent my son in". Trying to make sense of that I'm guessing wildly that my son (who died in the war) didn't belong to me, but only was on loan. Am I even close?

 

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The title is "You did it! My son"
It is a song of a Father whose son got himself sent to the war (and later the woman voice is supposed to be the son's wife, I guess).
So the story is that his son was called in as a war force for some war at that time (I could check the history and years if I had to and had some time, but since I am rather ignorant around these thing, I just assume it was pre-WWII. I hope someone more educated can add more concrete information here, or you can refer to Wikipedia for the history at that time).
The father, who is a farmer, is proud and honored that his son can be a soldier (but at these time people were obliged to feel honored to be selected as a war force member, so he cannot sound sad or worried, even if he wanted to. This is just a background comment on my part) .
The father says that the son need not worry about the field or the family that he is leaving. That his father and the son's wife can take care of those things, so fight for the nation without worry for home. The total concept of the song is something like that. In your Youtube link there are this lyrics shown in the video, so if you really need word to word translation, It is possible if you know Japanese (if I got time now,but sorry).

Just a quick reply.

 

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Thanks again! Even though it might be timeless, the current war I guess most listeners would associate to would be the Second Sino-Japanese War, since it was released in 1938. (Year Showa 13 according to the database Toritoribe mentioned as well as this page with several Polydor releases.)

Incidentally I've learned that both the singer and the composer died in action in WW2 not long afterwards (in 1944 and 1945, respectively).

 

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Thanks again for your help! The Swedish entertainer in the original question is Povel Ramel. I've now written about this (in Swedish) and the information was received with great interest in the Povel Ramel appreciation group when I linked to it in their Facebook group.
Povel Ramel is very well-known in Sweden, but only here. For one thing he has very seldom done anything that isn't in Swedish. One exception in English incidentally has a Japanese theme. It's a song called The Sukiyaki Syndrome. It might be seen as disrespectful to the Japanese, but as far as I've heard it has been popular with Japanese in the audience, and I hope no one is offended. I think this recording is from 1979.
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