the intense staging became popular and the mobilization power increased when the spine appeared. toshio fukui, the leader of the gs ox band, who saw the performance of "tel me" at the jazz cafe "number ichiban", said: "only our band and have the binson resonance chamber in japan! " noguchi joined the band in december 1967, but at the time he didn't know what binson was. he made his debut as the vocalist of "ox" in may 1968. his stage name is hideto noguchi, in honor of meiji era bacteriologist hideyo noguchi. he made top 10 and top 20 hits like "girl friend", "dancing seventeen", "swan no nami" and "i'm burning". the "girl friend", "swan no nami" and other two songs were composed by . at the beginning of her debut, ai akamatsu's popularity preceded him, but when he released his second single, "dancing seventeen," it overwhelmingly separated him from the popularity poll, and the center of popularity shifted to hideto noguchi. in the mid to late gs boom, many dialogues between , and hideto noguchi were seen in magazines.