Mountain Trip To Japan, 1959

Album: Vintage Slide Collections, Vol 1 (2001)
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Songfacts®:

  • This song is based on the slides of a family's vacation to Japan in 1959. The Trachtenburgs found the slides at a garage sale and put the pictures to music. The song talks about visiting Mount Fuji but also visiting graveyards, a public execution and a puppy farm full of cocker spaniels. >>>
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    Nkemji - Cambridge, MA

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  • Kelsey from Rustburg, VaThis is the most retarded thing I've ever seen... And there was nothing about a puppy farm in the video...
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