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TV - Tokudane!
TV program from Japanese TV (Fuji) about trivia questions.
This time about the origin of using the music of 'El Bimbo' as
arranged by Paul Mauriat by the Japanese on magic tricks. No new
appearance of Mauriat here, but the story is very entertaining.
Also, the TV commercial for Merushian wine is a bit different
from the other one displayed
here.
~ Thanks to the help of
my friend Hsieh Chih-Chien for supplying this information.
Broadcast information:
Broadcast venue: TV program from Fuji TV, Japan.
Running time: The segment is
about 20 minutes
Show description:
- The person who did the report, starts a magic trick but had a
cold reception. She says that something was missing: the music.
- She asks Japanese people (some a bit drunken) to do a magic
act with some music.
- 19 out of 21 of them did the music of
El Bimbo: Charararara....
- Then start some information about
the song, recorded in 1975 by Mauriat, visiting an amateur
magician at his work and he carries a cassette tape of Paul
Mauriat with him.
- She visits a couple of children who do
magic tricks and they use some other kind of music and they
never heard of El Bimbo...
- After this setback, she
interviews Magi and he does some tricks with El Bimbo on the
background. He says that he didn't know who used the music first.
-
Probably this magician: Shoukoku Sumie. Next, we see her at her
old age still doing some magic acts at a theatre. And there is
some footage of her in black and white, and then in color where
she uses the theme. She explains that she was looking for a song
for her magic trick where she does some tricks with flowers and
she heard El Bimbo on the radio and she knew that's what it!
- The reporter shows a graph from 75 to 77 about the popularity
of the song. And it shows a peak on 77. What happened on that
year?
- This happened! Paul Mauriat did a commercial for
Merushian wine with the music of El Bimbo.
- Some footage
from concerts with Paul Mauriat and his orchestra performing El Bimbo.
