Duran Duran Makes the Dolls Cry Suntory Whiskey Q

Due to wartime shortage of World War II, Kotobukiya [the company that would become Suntory] was briefly forced to halt its development of new products. In 1961, Kotobukiya launched the famous “Drink This Whiskey and Go to Hawaii” campaign. At the time, a trip abroad was considered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Duran Duran is a British pop/rock band notable for a long series of popular, synthesiser-driven hit singles and vivid music videos. They were the most commercially successful of the New Romantic bands, and a leading band in the MTV-driven Second British Invasion of the United States. They are still often identified as an “Eighties band” despite continuous recording and chart success over their twenty-eight year history.

“Is There Something I Should Know?” is the eighth single from the British pop band Duran Duran. It was released in March 1983 and became the band’s first UK Number One record. In New Zealand, it was the longest-running Number One single of 1983, staying atop the charts for nine weeks. It also reached #4 in the United States.

Charles Bronson Loves Mandom

Jerry Wallace, [an] American country singer who succeeded at billboard hot 100 in 1950s sang theme song for a Japanese TV ad starred by Charles Bronson in 1970. It became [the] biggest hit single for him through[out] his music career. The song title “Mandom” is [the] name of the company…advertised.

His better-known songs include Primrose Lane (1959), Shutters And Boards (1964), In The Misty Moonlight (1964) and “Otoko no Sekai” ( “The World of the Man”, English title: “The Lovers of the World”, “Otoko no Sekai”) (1970, his biggest selling single that [was] released in Japan only).

My Cup Noodle

Nissin Food Products Co., Ltd. (日清食品株式会社, Nisshin Shokuhin Kabushiki-gaisha) is the name of a company in Japan that makes instant ramen noodles. The company was established in 1948. Instant noodles and cup noodles were both invented by Nissin’s founder, Momofuku Ando in 1958.

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