6/20/2023 0 Comments Tiny bubbles lyrics cute songTo think about singing karaoke in English, they say, is like trying to picture a geisha in a biker bar-it just doesn’t fit. In the San Gabriel Valley and elsewhere around Southern California, second- or third-generation Japanese-Americans-some of whom don’t speak or understand Japanese-are learning about a cultural craze from their ancestral homeland. ![]() That was the pre-recorded Supremes-like back-up girls who chirped: “Makes me feel hap-py.makes me feel fi-ine.” Higashi, a Japanese-American who was born and raised in Hawaii, sings his karaoke in Japanese-thank you very much-even though he speaks only English. But, oh, no, not the rest of the English that wouldn’t be right. Harry Higashi, 70, warbled those words, all right. The phrase in question is “ti-ny bu-bbles.”
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