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Fever (Little Willie John song) " Fever " is a song written by Eddie Cooley and Otis Blackwell, who used the pseudonym " John Davenport ". It was originally recorded by American R&B singer Little Willie John for his debut album, Fever (1956), and released as a single in April of the same year. The song topped the Billboard R&B Best Sellers in ...
Japanese rice refers to a number of short-grain cultivars of Japonica rice including ordinary rice ( uruchimai) and glutinous rice ( mochigome ). Ordinary Japanese rice, or uruchimai ( 粳米 ), is the staple of the Japanese diet and consists of short translucent grains. When cooked, it has a sticky texture such that it can easily be picked up ...
Mochi (もち, 餅) [motɕi] ⓘ is a Japanese rice cake made of mochigome (もち米), a short-grain japonica glutinous rice, and sometimes other ingredients such as water, sugar, and cornstarch. The steamed rice is pounded into paste and molded into the desired shape. In Japan, it is traditionally made in a ceremony called mochitsuki ...
Japanese Boy. " Japanese Boy " is a hit single by Scottish singer Aneka, released in July 1981. The song became her highest-charting release, reaching number one in several countries, including the United Kingdom. The song's success would eventually lead audiences to associate Aneka closely with both the lyrics' subject matter as well as the ...
Genjer-Genjer is an Osing language folk song from East Java, Indonesia, written and composed by musician Muhammad Arief. The song was written as a description of the condition of the people of Banyuwangi during the Japanese occupation period. The song focuses on the struggle of the peasants, who were forced to eat the genjer plant ( Limnocharis ...
Honma Munehisa. Munehisa Honma (本間 宗久, Honma Munehisa) (also known as Sokyu Honma or Sokyu Homma and sometimes called the God of markets ; 1724–1803) was a rice merchant from Sakata, Japan who traded in the Dōjima Rice Exchange in Osaka during the Tokugawa Shogunate. He is sometimes considered to be the father of the candlestick ...
Furusato ( Japanese: 故郷, 'old home' or 'hometown') is a well-known 1914 Japanese children's song, with music by Teiichi Okano and lyrics by Tatsuyuki Takano [ ja] . Although Takano's hometown was Nakano, Nagano, his lyrics do not seem to refer to a particular place. [1] Instead, they describe a person who is working in a distant land ...
Fever (Bullet for My Valentine album) Fever. (Bullet for My Valentine album) Fever is the third studio album by Welsh heavy metal band Bullet for My Valentine. Containing eleven tracks, [1] the album was released on 26 and 27 April 2010 in the UK and in the US, respectively. The album sold 71,000 copies in the US and 21,965 in the UK in its ...