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Greatest Hits! Of Tatsuro Yamashita
''Greatest Hits! of Tatsuro Yamashita'' is the first greatest hits album by Japanese singer-songwriter Tatsuro Yamashita, released in July 1982. Overview The album consists of Yamashita's songs mostly included on his previous six albums ranging from '' Circus Town'' to '' For You''. The only song not included in any album is Amaku Kiken na Kaori which is only released as a single and a re-recording of Funky Flushin'. According to Yamashita, "Greatest Hits" is just a mundane joke that I thought of as a western music lover.(1997) Tatsuro Yamashita's "Greatest Hits! of Tatsuro Yamashita" album notes. AIR/ BMG Funhouse (BVCR-1541). The original album release (RAL-8803) included Yamashita's biography, discography, and various photographs in the form of a booklet. Lawsuit In 1990, BMG Victor told Yamashita of its plans to release the album, and it asked Smile to provide technical help for the project. Smile agreed, and in September 1990 the album was released (BVCR-2505) with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatsuro Yamashita
, occasionally credited as Tatsu Yamashita or Tats Yamashita, is a Japanese singer-songwriter and record producer, who is known for pioneering the style of Japanese adult-oriented rock/soft rock music. His most well-known song is "Christmas Eve", the best-selling single song released in Japan in the 1980s, appearing on the Japanese singles chart for over 35 consecutive years. He is known for his collaborations with his wife, singer Mariya Takeuchi, on many songs including "Plastic Love" as well as with American songwriter Alan O'Day with whom he wrote hit songs "Your Eyes," "Magic Ways," "Love Can Go the Distance," and "Fragile." Active since the 1970s, Yamashita is considered an important contributor to Japanese music, ranked by HMV Japan as sixth in the Top 100 Japanese Artists. Career Yamashita was a member of the band Sugar Babe with musicians Taeko Onuki and Kunio Muramatsu, who released their only album ''Songs'' in 1975. After the group disbanded in 1976, Yamashit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ride On Time (album)
''Ride on Time'' is the fifth studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter Tatsuro Yamashita, released by AIR/ RVC on September 19, 1980. It is best known for its title track, which was used in the television commercial for Maxell cassette tapes starring Yamashita, and released as a single in May 1980. The song became his first charting single, peaking at No. 3 on Oricon's weekly singles chart with sales of 417,000 copies. In 2003, the song was featured on the television drama ''Good Luck!!'' starring Takuya Kimura, and entered the top 20 on the chart again. The album was released after the title track became a hit, and gained commercial success subsequently. It topped the Oricon weekly albums chart for a week in October 1980, selling more than 220,000 units. Following the album's release, the song " My Sugar Babe" (ode to the band he formerly fronted) was issued as a single. It was featured as a theme song for the television drama ''Keishi-K ''starring and directed by Shintaro Kat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timbales
Timbales () or pailas are shallow single-headed drums with metal casing. They are shallower than single-headed tom-toms and usually tuned much higher, especially for their size.Orovio, Helio 1981. ''Diccionario de la música cubana: biográfico y técnico''. Entries for ''Paila criolla''; ''Timbal criollo''. They were developed as an alternative to classical timpani in Cuba in the early 20th century and later spread across Latin America and the United States. Timbales are struck with wooden sticks on the heads and shells, although bare hands are sometimes used. The player (called a ''timbalero'') uses a variety of stick strokes, rim shots, and rolls to produce a wide range of percussive expression during solos and at transitional sections of music, and usually plays the shells (or auxiliary percussion such as a cowbell or cymbal) to keep time in other parts of the song. The shells and the typical pattern played on them are referred to as ''cáscara''. Common stroke patterns incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flugelhorn
The flugelhorn (), also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or flügelhorn, is a brass instrument that resembles the trumpet and cornet but has a wider, more conical bore. Like trumpets and cornets, most flugelhorns are pitched in B, though some are in C. It is a type of valved bugle, developed in Germany in the early 19th century from a traditional English valveless bugle. The first version of a valved bugle was sold by Heinrich Stölzel in Berlin in 1828. The valved bugle provided Adolphe Sax (creator of the saxophone) with the inspiration for his B soprano (contralto) saxhorns, on which the modern-day flugelhorn is modeled. Etymology The German word ''Flügel'' means ''wing'' or ''flank'' in English. In early 18th century Germany, a ducal hunt leader known as a ''Flügelmeister'' blew the ''Flügelhorn'', a large semicircular brass or silver valveless horn, to direct the wings of the hunt. Military use dates from the Seven Years' War, where this instrument was employed as a pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clavinet
The Clavinet is an electrically amplified clavichord invented by Ernst Zacharias and manufactured by the Hohner company of Trossingen, West Germany, from 1964 to 1982. The instrument produces sounds by a rubber pad striking a point on a tensioned string, and was designed to resemble the Renaissance-era clavichord. Although originally intended for home use, the Clavinet became popular on stage, and could be used to create electric guitar sounds on a keyboard. It is strongly associated with Stevie Wonder, who used the instrument extensively, particularly on his 1972 hit "Superstition", and was regularly featured in rock, funk and reggae music throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Modern digital keyboards can emulate the Clavinet sound, but there is also a grass-roots industry of repairers who continue to maintain the instrument. Description The Clavinet is an electromechanical instrument that is usually used in conjunction with a keyboard amplifier. Most models have 60 keys ranging ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ride On Time (single)
''Ride on Time'' is the sixth single by Japanese singer-songwriter Tatsuro Yamashita, released in May 1980. This was his first single to enter the Oricon Singles Chart, peaking in at number three. Some sources claim that this was the beginning of the genre called ''" City pop"''. Overview ''Ride on Time'' is the lead single from the album of the same name, but the song was re-recorded in the album issue just four months later. This version would be included in his Greatest hits album ''"Greatest Hits! of Tatsuro Yamashita"'' in 1982 and ''" Opus (All Time Best 1975-2012)"'' in 2012. The live version was also included in his live album ''" Joy"'' in 1989. This song was written for a Maxell cassette tape commercial. Yamashita himself had appeared in the commercial. The footage, shot in Saipan, shows him immersing himself in the sea near his knees with his back on the horizon, aiming a finger gun at the camera. One of the photographs would later be used as the cover for his si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shigeharu Mukai
is a Japanese jazz trombonist. Mukai attended Doshisha University but left before obtaining his degree to become a professional musician. Early in his career he worked with Yoshio Otomo, Ryo Kawasaki, and Hiroshi Fukumura, then led his own ensemble, including a performance at the Shinjuku Jazz Festival. He went on to work with Terumasa Hino, Akira Sakata, Kazumi Watanabe, and Yosuke Yamashita, as well as the ensemble Spik and Span and international musicians such as João Bosco, Billy Hart, and Elvin Jones. In the 1990s and 2000s he taught jazz at Senzoku Gakuen school of music. References *"Shigeharu Mukai". '' The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz''. 2nd edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld Barry Dean Kernfeld (born August 11, 1950) is an American musicologist and jazz saxophonist who has researched and published extensively about the history of jazz and the biographies of its musicians. Education In 1968, Kernfeld enrolled at U .... 1949 births Living people Japanese jazz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiroyuki Namba
(occasionally credited as Hiroyuki Nanba) is a Japanese musician. He has composed for and arranged songs from Japanese anime, OVA and video games. Notably, Hiroyuki Namba composed for ''Dallos'', the first anime Original video animation. However, in the United States, he is known for composing the soundtrack to the ''Armitage III'' film. Namba plays keyboards in Sense of Wonder, a Japanese progressive rock band. Works * 1983 - ''Dallos'' (OVA) * 1987 - '' Ladius'' (OVA) * 1987 - '' Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei'' (OVA) * 1988 - ''Starship Troopers'' (OVA) * 1989 - ''Baoh'' (OVA) * 1989 - '' Wrestler Gundan Seisenshi Robin Jr.'' (TV series) * 1991 - '' Sohryuden: Legend of the Dragon Kings'' (OVA) * 1995 - ''Armitage III'' (OVA) * 1996 - ''Burn Up W'' (OVA) * 1997 - '' Armitage III: Poly-Matrix'' (Movie) * 1998 - ''DT Eightron'' (TV series) * 2000 - '' Transformers: Car Robot'' (TV series) * 2014 - ''Space Dandy'' (TV series) Associated acts * Sense of Wonder (1987 -) * Tatsu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Promotional Recording
A promotional recording, or promo, or plug copy, is an audio or video recording distributed free, usually in order to promote a recording that is or soon will be commercially available. Promos are normally sent directly to broadcasters, such as music radio and music television, television stations, and to tastemakers, such as DJs, music journalism, music journalists, and music criticism, critics, in advance of the release of commercial editions, in the hope that airplay, reviews, and other forms of exposure will result and stimulate the public's interest in the commercial release. Promos are often distributed in plain packaging, without the text or artwork that appears on the commercial version. Typically a promo is marked with some variation of the following text: "Licensed for promotional use only. Sale is prohibited." It may also state that the promo is still the property of the distributor and is to be "returned upon demand." However, it is not illegal to sell promotional re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twelve-inch Single
The twelve-inch single (often written as 12-inch or 12″) is a type of vinyl ( polyvinyl chloride or PVC) gramophone record that has wider groove spacing and shorter playing time with a 'single' or a few related sound tracks on each surface, compared to LPs (long play) which have several songs on each side. This allows for louder levels to be cut on the disc by the mastering engineer, which in turn gives a wider dynamic range, and thus better sound quality. This record type is commonly used in disco and dance music genres, where DJs use them to play in clubs. They are played at either or 45 . The conventional 7‐inch single usually holds three or four minutes of music at full volume. The 12‐inch LP sacrifices volume for extended playing time. Technical features Twelve-inch singles typically have much shorter playing time than full-length LPs, and thus require fewer grooves per inch. This extra space permits a broader dynamic range or louder recording level as the gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan O'Day
Alan Earle O'Day (October 3, 1940 – May 17, 2013) was an American singer-songwriter, best known for writing and singing " Undercover Angel," a million-selling Gold-certified American No. 1 hit in 1977. He also wrote songs for many other notable performers, such as 1974's Helen Reddy No. 1 hit " Angie Baby" and the Righteous Brothers' No. 3 Gold hit "Rock and Roll Heaven". In the 1980s he moved from pop music to television, co-writing nearly 100 songs for the Saturday morning '' Muppet Babies'' series, and in the 1990s he wrote and performed music on the National Geographic series ''Really Wild Animals''. O'Day also collaborated with Tatsuro Yamashita on a series of popular songs in Japan including "Your Eyes", "Magic Ways", "Christmas Eve" and "Fragile" (which Tyler the Creator interpolated in " Gone, Gone/Thank You"). Life and career Early years O'Day was born in Hollywood, California, United States, the only child of Earle and Jeannette O'Day, who both worked at the ''Pasad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osamu Yoshioka
was a renowned Japanese lyricist. Vice-president of the Japan Lyricists' Association. Earlier he used the pen name "" (pronounced the same). Songs with lyrics by Yoshioka Kayōkyoku * Kazuhiko Shima * Sayuri Ishikawa , , , * Seri Ishikawa * Hiroshi Itsuki * Eisaku Ōkawa * Miyuki Kawanaka , , , * Eiko Segawa * Kaoru Chiga * Kenji Niinuma * Nobue Matsubara * Hibari Misora , * Harumi Miyako , , * Shin'ichi Mori * George Yamamoto * The King Tones (Tatsurō Yamashita) * Cute (Japanese idol group), Cute "Edo no Temari Uta II" * Hiroyuki Okita "Kimi Ni Sasageru Lullaby" (Captain Tsubasa) Nursery songs * "Omocha no cha-cha-cha" (:ja:おもちゃのチャチャチャ, おもちゃのチャチャチャ), co-lyricist with Akiyuki Nosaka Awards * 1989: 31st Japan Record Awards — Lyrics Award — for Akari Uchida's * 1980: 13th Japan Lyricist Awards, Japan Lyrics Award — for Miyako Harumi's * 1990: 23rd Japan Lyricist Awards, Japan Versification Award — for Say ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
