Fairport in Japan 1974

[Philip W]

After correspondence with NHK, the Japanese national broadcaster, I learned that Fairport appeared in a recorded concert broadcast on Japanese TV on February 3, 1974. Apparently they shared the bill with local performers. Sadly, no copy of the programme is held in their archives. These are the details (translated from the original):

World Music
Broadcast date and time
Analog General Sunday, February 3, 1974 8:45pm - 9:30pm
Program contents
"The Hexhamshire Lass" (Fairport)
"Rosie" (Fairport)
"The Game of Love" (Fairport)
"Beautiful Brown Eyes" (Sara)
"Irish Lullabies" (Tachikawa)
"The Brilliancy Medley and Cherokee Shuffle" (Fairport)
"Cell Song" (Fairport)
"Pleasure and Pain" (Fairport)
and more
Name Type
Fairport Convention
Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra
Watanabe Akio, conductor
Agata Morio
Tachikawa Kiyoto
Sara Naomi

My questions to Talkawhilers:

- Do any Japanese Fairport fans remember seeing this programme? Admittedly, it's over 50 years ago!
- None of the FC songs listed would have featured Sandy, who joined them on that tour, so unless she was buried in the “and more” section she didn’t appear. Yes? No?
- What was ‘The Game of Love’? There was a 1964 hit by Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders of that title. Did Fairport ever cover it?

Thanks!

[Pat Helms]

Fairground Attraction released a song by that name in 1990.  

Perhaps the wrong marble dropped into the jar.

[PaulT]

The Game of Love sounds like something The Bunch might have covered... 'cos they did do "Learning the Game" on their only album.