"It's All Because of You..." Sukiyaki

[002 Cents]

This is driving me crazy!

Last night I was watching "From Up On Poppy Hill" wish my husband (for those of you who don't know, this is an Anime cartoon set in WWII Japan) and this song starts playing in the background.

It is in Japanese and my husband says... "Where have I heard this song?"

I said "I recognize it only I have never heard it in Japanese".

Then I start singing the English version of it. Or what I can remember of it:

"It's all because of you...

Once again you'd be mine o mine...

In reality, you and I could never be,
You took your love away from me."

I am so certain of it I actually start Googling it thinking for sure I am going to find the English version of this song online some where. The issue is, all the remakes of this song are done by Rap artists and the version I remember was done in the same era as the one in the movie last night. Now my husband said he had never heard it done in English before but I was able to find the Lyrics for the version I was talking about.

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/t/three+plus/sukiyaki+its+all+because+of+you_20603501.html

But I can't figure out why I remember the English version of a Japanese song done in 1961 which apparently was so uncommon it can't be found anywhere.

This is the closest I could get, it is the original Japanese version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C35DrtPlUbc&app=desktop

It is really driving me nuts.

What? That you recall it so well?

♀

[002 Cents]

Yeah. I have mentioned it to people in my family and they don't know what I am talking about. I would think they would have to know because I don't listen to or even own much music mostly just things people have gifted to me which is maybe 3 or 4 CD's. So, I assumed I must have heard either my parents or my grandparents listening to it. But that is looking less and less like the case.

I did end up scouring the internet yesterday trying to find any version that is even remotely close to what I remember and the best I could turn up was some 80's version that was done by some R&B group. I guess I may just have to accept that maybe my mind is going and the version I think I remember just doesn't exist.