Somebody Stole My Gal
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Somebody Stole My Gal
Song Information
Somebody Stole My Gal's pop'n music banner, as of pop'n music 16.
Artist: ♪♪♪♪♪
Composition: Leo Wood
BPM: 208-217
Length: 2:02
pop'n music Genre: NANIWA (ナニワ)
pop'n music Character: P-1＆P-2 [TV&ANIME]
pop'n CG designer: ちょび。
First Music Game Appearance: pop'n music 9
Other Music Game Appearances: None.
Lyrics
None.
Song Connections / Remixes
- A chiptune version of Somebody Stole my Gal arranged by Jimmy Weckl appears in KONAMI's 1990 Japan-only puzzle game Moai-kun (モアイくん) for the Nintendo Famicom. It plays in every even-leveled song in the game.
Trivia
- Somebody Stole My Gal is a popular song originally composed by Leo Wood in 1918. A later cover by Ted Weems and his orchestra in 1922 helped propel it to a million-selling song that year. It has since been covered by many bands, and heard in several films.
- Somebody Stole My Gal is also used by Yoshimoto Kogyo as a theme for their theater comedies. This is directly referenced by Somebody Stole My Gal's internal name, "yoshimoto".
- Somebody Stole My Gal's charts were made by wac.
- Somebody Stole My Gal received a new ENJOY MODE jacket in pop'n music 17 THE MOVIE, which replaced the old text (なにわ, "naniwa") with Somebody Stole My Gal's title.
- Somebody Stole My Gal was the final license from pop'n music 9 to be removed from the pop'n music arcade games, staying all the way up until pop'n music 20 fantasia.
- Naniwa, the genre of Somebody Stole My Gal, is a Japanese place name derived from the "fish garden" [1] or "fast waves" [2]. The word itself was the former name of the Osaka region of Japan. P-1&P-2 are dressed in stereotypical outfits of a Japanese manzai comedy duo, complete with the mannerisms of the stand-up acts and paper fan.
- Somebody Stole My Gal is the only licensed cover in pop'n music to appear on the MUSIC PLAYER for pop'n music in beatmania IIDX ULTIMATE MOBILE.
- Somebody Stole My Gal was added to pop'n music Lively on November 1st, 2022.
- Somebody Stole My Gal's EASY chart is exactly the same as its old 5-Buttons chart.
Music Comment
That familiar comedy song appears!
Song Production Information
Untranslated.
Character Information
Untranslated.
Difficulty & Notecounts
pop'n music difficulty rated from 1 to 43 through pop'n music 20 fantasia. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from Pop'n Music Fever.)
| Game | Normal Mode | Battle Mode | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5-Buttons | NORMAL | HYPER | EX | NORMAL | HYPER | |
| Notecounts | 247 | 315 | 729 | - | 224 | 313 |
| pop'n music 9→20 fantasia | 9 | 14 | 27 | - | 11 | 15 |
| pop'n music 9 CS | 9 | 14 | 27 | - | 11 | 15 |
| pop'n music Lively | 14 | 20 | 33 | - | - | - |