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Posted by Cain Highwind on 22-06-2010 at 03:27:

Gatchaman themes sung by Katse himself?

Yep, found another crazy vid that was recently uploaded. It features Katse singing the opening and closing themes (with "modified" lyrics featuring Galactor)

From the giggling voices, I assume this was probably taken at a Japanese con some time ago. Maybe James knows something about this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNV6uUTycBg

Posted by tatsunokofan on 22-06-2010 at 04:30:

Hi all!

Yep, I know exactly where that's from. During the 5th episode of the Gatchaman radio drama, Katse sang the two songs during a segment where Nambu and Katse took part in a friendly debate.

Later, during the 16th and final episode of the series, the actors had a roundtable discussion about making the radio drama and the upcoming premiere of Gatchaman II. During their discussion, they spoke about how much they enjoyed the two Katse songs, and the segments from the earlier episode with those songs were played while the actors giggled. The audio in that clip is from that part of the final episode.

James

Posted by lborgia88 on 22-06-2010 at 05:01:

Wow, it's actually a little bit jarring to hear Berg Katse's voice singing a tune that I so associate with the "good guys," but he's got a pretty good voice!

A shame perhaps, they never did a musical episode. If I recall, Joe's voice actor is also a singer... Laugh2

Posted by tatsunokofan on 22-06-2010 at 05:29:

Hi all!

quote:

If I recall, Joe's voice actor is also a singer...

Isao Sasaki, who provided Joe's voice, is primarily a singer, and he's only dabbled as a voice actor on rare occasions.

He is best known as the singer of anime and tokusatsu theme songs, but he actually staretd his career in the 1960s as a rockabilly singer who made a name for himself doing Japanese language versions of Elvis songs. He made his debut as an anime theme song singer with the theme songs for Tatsunoko's "Casshan." You can see him singing this song here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYNpxamAcF0

His best known song is the opening theme for "Space Battleship Yamato," which you can see him performing here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXEiMOFth7g

Katsuji Mori, Ken's voice actor, did some singing in the late 1970s, but aside from one LP record and a few singles, he never did much with it. I don't think any of the other main Gatchaman voice cast ever did any amount of professional singing.

James