Date:
[?]

Title:
Seiko Watch Co.

Network:
[?]

Country:
Japan

PDFM:

a brief television commercial

IED:

For Seiko watches. {This commercial, and a companion print ad, may be the only images of Kate wearing a watch. - CDW}

Date:
18

Title:
"7th Tokyo Song Festival"

Network:
[?]

Country:
Japan

PDFM:

live "Moving" prize presentation

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Date:
21

Title:
"John Craven's Newsround"

Network:
BBC1

Country:
UK

PDFM:

report on Tokyo Song Festival

IED:

From the BBC1 TV programme John Craven’s Newsround, this is a five-minute-long news report on the Seventh Tokyo Song Festival, which includes footage of Kate’s tour of a Buddhist temple and rehearsals for her performance, as well as the results of the competition .

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Date:
23

Title:
"Sound in S"

Network:
[?]

Country:
Japan

PDFM:

re. Tokyo Song Festival
live "Moving"
"Rolling the Ball [sic]"
"The Man w/the Child" and
"She's Leaving Home" and
"Long and Winding Road"
"Let It Be"

IED:

N.B.: These performances may in fact stem from more than one Japanese television programme. All three of the Beatles songs are abridged, but Kate still manages to give them her personal stamp. At least some were sung live with both live an pre-recorded backing, taped at Tokyo's TBS G Studio for the television programme Sound in S, June 23, 1978. Kate's contributions to these shows would seem to have taken her at least a few hours to rehearse with the elaborate orchestral ensemble; her voice is augmented by pre-recorded overdubs for the second Beatles number. The Man With the Child In His Eyes and Moving are studio-bound lip-synchs, rather stylishly staged but simple. By far the most remarkable of all the Japanese performances, however, is Rolling the Ball, an arrangement for Sixties-style swing band of Kate’s song Them Heavy People. Lead vocals are shared by two Japanese Enka singers (unidentified), who tart up the song with artful Vegas loung-act mannerisms and a total ignorance of the meaning of the lyrics. During the instrumental bridge of the song a group of male dancers suddenly appear, along with Kate herself, and the makeshift dance-troupe kick up a disco storm.

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Date:
[?]

Title:
[?]

Network:
[?]

Country:
[?]

IED:

TV coverage of Kate's participation in The Seventh Tokyo Song Festival, June 18, 1978. The full performance also aired on Japanese TV. This UK clip featured shots of Kate with Japanese hosts and fans, posing in front of Japanese monuments and performing part of Moving at the competition. The British narrator describes the event and its result--Kate shared second prize with the American R-'n'-B female trio The Emotions--in straightforward fashion. The Japanese broadcast featured Kate's complete performance of the song. The song was sung live, with a large Japanese orchestral backing.