pachinko vinyl!

I've been chatting with Mr. Gneiss over at PachiTalk and they've been collecting pachinko vinyls and were able to digitize them and get them up on Internet Archive! Thank you for your work on these. There is a long tradition of using songs to open pachinko parlors (and other businesses.)  If you have other pachinko records, please get in touch.

1975 - 大瀬しのぶ (Shinobu Oose) - スットコ成金音頭 (Suttoko Narikin Ondo)

 the B-side on this 7" is a track called パチンコ天国 (Pachinko Heaven) which even has its own dance!

パチンコ天国 (Pachinko Heaven) dance instructions insert

パチンコ天国 (Pachinko Heaven) dance instructions insert

 

1976 - 憂歌団 – パチンコ(ランラン・ブルース) [Pachinko (Run Run Blues)]

 

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1984 - 榎本 明美 (Akemi Enomoto) - パチンコ・マーチ (Pachinko March)

Miss Pachinko 1984!

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These next 3 records we have no date for.  If you can confirm the year of release for any of these please leave a comment.

National Pachinko Day was established 1979-11-14. These 3 National Pachinko Day records are currently the only releases by Sound Marketing Center on Discogs.com.  Thanks again to MrGneiss for adding these to Discogs.

The cover design on this one is my favourite:

全国パチンコ感謝デー ディスクジョッキー (National Pachinko Appreciation Day Disc Jockey) with 増山江威子 (Eiko Masuyama) & 石原良 (Ryo Ishihara)

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全国パチンコ感謝デー (National Pachinko Appreciation Day) with 橋幸夫 (Yukio Hashi) & 横田ひとみ (Hitomi Yokota) & 福島まりこ (Mariko Fukushima) [SMC-1021]

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全遊協パチンコヒットジョッキー (All-Japan Pachinko Hit Jockey) & 新春パチンコジョッキー (New Year's Pachinko Jockey) with 島倉千代子 (Chiyoko Shimakura) [SMC-1023]

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And one final treat from the depths of the Internet Archive, a "Japanese-influenced" bit of Danish piano called Pachinko:

 

1953 - Ivor Moreton & Dave Kaye - Pachinko

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