Short Stories (Miyuki Nakajima album)
| Short Stories (Tanpenshū) | ||||
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| Studio album by Miyuki Nakajima | ||||
| Released | November 15, 2000 | |||
| Recorded |
CelIo Studios(Los Angeles) Epicurus Studios(Tokyo) PARADISE studio KOMAZAWA(Tokyo) Bunkamura Studio(Tokyo) | |||
| Genre | Folk rock | |||
| Length | 54:43 | |||
| Label | Yamaha Music Communications | |||
| Producer | Ichizo Seo, Miyuki Nakajima | |||
| Miyuki Nakajima chronology | ||||
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Short Stories (短篇集 Tanpenshū) is the 28th studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter Miyuki Nakajima, released in November 2000. The album features commercially successful double A-Side single "Earthly Stars (Unsung Heroes)"/"Headlight, Taillight", which became the number-one hit in later years and sold more than a million copies in Japan alone.
Track listing
All songs written and composed by Miyuki Nakajima, arranged by Ichizo Seo (except "Powdery Snow" co-arranged by David Campbell).
- "Earthly Stars (Unsung Heroes) (地上の星 Chijou no Hoshi)" – 5:11
- "Homecoming (帰省 Kisei)" – 5:17
- "I'm Walking Along the Street of Dreams (夢の通り道を僕は歩いている Yume no Tōrimichi wo Boku wa Aruiteiru)" – 4:35
- "Regret (後悔 Koukai)" – 6:15
- "Merry-Go-Round" – 5:54
- "The Angel's Stairway (天使の階段 Tenshi no Kaidan)" – 4:24
- "Passing Summer (過ぎゆく夏 Sugiyuku Natsu)" – 3:43
- "Marriage (結婚 Kekkon)" – 2:32
- "Powdery Snow (粉雪は忘れ薬 Konayuki wa Wasuregusuri)" – 6:32
- "Tell Me, Sister" – 5:23
- "Headlight, Taillight (ヘッドライト・テールライト Heddoraito Teruraito)" – 4:57
Personnel
Band
- Miyuki Nakajima - vocals
- Ichizo Seo - keyboards, strings arrangement & conduct
- Hideo Yamaki - tomtom, cymbals
- Russ Kunkel - drums
- Vinnie Colaiuta - drums
- Gregg Bissonette - drums
- Neil Stubenhaus - bass guitar
- Hideki Matsubara - bass guitar
- Leland Sklar - bass guitar
- Michael Thompson - electric and acoustic guitar
- Masayoshi Furukawa - electric guitar, 12-strings acoustic guitar
- Elton Nagata - keyboards, acoustic and electric piano
- Shingo Kobayashi - keyboards, acoustic piano
- Jon Gilutin - acoustic and electric piano, hammond B-3, keyboards
- Yasuharu Nakanishi - keyboards
- Keishi Urata- computer programming
- Seiichi Takubo - computer programming
- Yousuke Sugimoto - computer programming
- Brandon Fields - tenor sax
Backing vocalists
- Fumikazu Miyashita - backing and harmony vocals
- Yasuhiro Kido - backing vocals
- Katsumi Maeda - backing vocals
- Toshiro Kirigaya - backing vocals
- Etsuro Wakakonai - backing vocals
- Julia Waters - backing vocals
- Maxine Waters - backing vocals
- Carmen Twillie - backing vocals
- Monalisa Young - backing vocals
- Clydene Jackson Edwards - backing vocals
- Oren Waters - backing vocals
- Luther Waters - backing vocals
- Johnny Britt - backing vocals
- Joseph Powell - backing vocals
- Terry Young - backing vocals
- Rick Logan - backing vocals
- Randy Crenshaw - backing vocals
- John Batdorf - backing vocals
Additional personnel
- David Campbell - strings arrangement, conducting
- Suzie Katayama - conducting
- Masatsugu Shinozaki - violin, concertmaster
- Joel Derouin - violin, concertmaster
- Bruce Dukov - violin
- Mario De Leon - violin
- Armen Garabedian - violin
- Berj Garabedian - violin
- Endre Grant - violin
- Peter Kent - violin
- Rachel Purkin - violin
- Michele Richards - violin
- John Wittenberg - violin
- Charlie Bisharat - violin
- Brian Leonard - violin
- Robert Peterson - violin
- Haim Shtrim - violin
- Kiyo Kido - violin
- Jun Yamamoto - violin
- Yumiko Hirose - violin
- Osamu Inou - violin
- Kei Shinozaki - violin
- Yu Sugino - violin
- Naoyuki Takahashi - violin
- Kathrine Cash - violin
- Tsunehiro Shigyo - violin
- Keiko Nakamura - violin
- Machia Saito - violin
- Crusher Kimura - violin
- Takashi Kato - violin
- Masayoshi Fujiyama - violin
- Hitoshi Imano - violin
- Yukikane Murata - violin
- Jun Takeuchi - violin
- Akihiko Suzuki - violin
- Takayuki Oshigane - violin
- Akiko Kato - violin
- Hiroki Muto - violin
- Masako Mabuchi - viola
- Yuji Yamada - viola
- Gentaro Sakaguchi - viola
- Denyse Buffum - viola
- Matthew Funes - viola
- Janet Lakatos - viola
- Karie Prescott - viola
- Joshin Toyama - viola
- Gentaro Sakaguchi - viola
- Kaori Naruse - viola
- Masaharu Karita - cello
- Tomoya Kikuchi - cello
- Hiroki Kashiwagi - cello
- Yoshihiko Maeda - cello
- Masahiro Tanaka - cello
- Susumu Miyake - cello
- Steve Richards - cello
- Daniel Smith - cello
- Rudolph Stein - cello
- Paula Hoochatter - cello
- Don Markese - tin whitsle, recorder
Chart positions
Album
| Year | Chart | Position | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000-03 | Japanese Oricon Weekly Albums Chart | 7[1] | 188,000+ |
Single
| Year | Country | Song(s) | Chart | Position | Weeks | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000-03 | Japan | "Earthly Stars (Unsung Heroes)" "Headlight, Taillight" |
Oricon Weekly Singles Chart (top 100) | 1 | 183[2] | 1.1 million+[3] |
| Oricon Weekly Singles Chart (top 200) | 202[3] | |||||
References
- ↑ "Yamachan Land (Japanese Chart Archives) - Albums Chart Daijiten - Miyuki Nakajima" (in Japanese). Original Confidence. Retrieved 2008-08-24.
- ↑ ""Nada Sousou" climbed the chart again". oricon.co.jp (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved 2008-11-06.
- 1 2 "Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) - Singles Chart Daijiten - Miyuki Nakajima" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2008-11-06.
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