Hokutosei
The Hokutosei (北斗星) was a limited express sleeping car train service in Japan which operated between Ueno Station in Tokyo and Sapporo Station in the northern island of Hokkaido, taking approximately 16½ hours. It was operated jointly by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and Hokkaido Railway Company (JR Hokkaido) from March 1988. The service became a seasonal service from the 14 March 2015 timetable revision, and was completely discontinued in August 2015.
Route
Going from Ueno to Sapporo, trains called at Ōmiya, Utsunomiya Station, Kōriyama, Fukushima, and Sendai. One train made additional stops at Ichinoseki and Morioka. The first stop in Hokkaido was at Hakodate, with arrival in Sapporo around five hours later.
The Hokutosei ran on the following lines:
JR East area
JR Hokkaido
Podcasts:
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by Hawketts
Mardi Gras Mambo
by: HawkettsMardi Gras Mambo 2:13 Trk 7
(K. Elliott, L. Welch, F. Adams)
The Hawketts
Recorded: WWEZ Radio Studio, New Orleans, LA.
1954. Producer/DJ, Ken Ellliott 'Jack The Cat'.
Chess Records single #7780. Musicians: A. Neville - keybrds
& vcl, J. Boudreaux - drums, A. August - gtr, G. Davis - alto
M. Bechamin - tenor., I. Bell & A. Fleuri - trmp, C. Joseph - trmbn.
Album: Mardi Gras in New Orleans (1987) MG1001.
Transcriber: [email protected]
(Uuh!)
Down in New Orleans
Where the blues was born
It takes a cool cat
To blow a horn
On LaSalle and Rampart Street
The combo's there with a mambo beat
The Mardi Gras, mambo, mambo, mambo
Party Gras, pambo, mambo, mambo
Mardi Gras, mambo-ooh
Down in New Orleans
In Gert Town
Where the cats all meet
There's a Mardi Gras mambo
With a beat
Join the Chief with the Zulu gang
And truck on down
Where the mambo's swing
The Mardi Gras, mambo, mambo, mambo
Party Gras, mambo, mambo, mambo
Pardi Gras, mambo-ooh
Down in New Orleans
Down in New Orleans
Where the blues was born
It takes a cool cat
To blow a horn
On LaSalle and Rampart Street
The combo's there with a mambo beat
The Mardi Gras, mambo, mambo, mambo
Party Gras, mambo, mambo, mambo
Party Gras, mambo-ooh
Down in New Orleans
(chorus)
Mardi Gras, mambo, mambo, mambo
Party Gras, mambo, mambo, mambo
Pardi Gras, mambo, mambo, mambo
FADES-
Pardi Gras, mambo, mambo, mambo.