Talk:Tong Poo/@comment-104.191.104.153-20200913235002/@comment-34593186-20200914014147

Actually, the original version of the song had no vocals whatsoever. The version with lyrics was specifically made for the American market in 1979, since they thought the song would perform better if it had vocals of some kind. YMO themselves had very little to do with that version, though they did handpick Minako Yoshida (an old friend of Hosono's) to do the vocal part.