is the debut studio album by Japanese singer
Chisato Moritaka, released on July 25, 1987 by
Warner Pioneer. It was produced by Yūzō Shimada, who also produced albums by
Akina Nakamori
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,
Naomi Tamura, and
Aco. At the time of the album's recording, Moritaka had not started to write songs; instead, the album's songs were written by several composers such as
Hiromasa Ijichi
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Hideo Saitō, and Shingo Kanno (of the band
Orquesta de la Luz
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).
The album peaked at No. 21 on
Oricon
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's albums chart and sold over 43,000 copies.
Track listing
Personnel
* Chisato Moritaka – vocals, piano (B2),
Fender Rhodes
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(A1), keyboard (B4)
* Hideo Saitō – guitar (A2, B1, B4), backing vocals (A2, B1, B4)
* Akira Wada – guitar (A3)
* Makoto Matsushita – guitar (B2)
* Kazuhiko Iwami – guitar (A1, B3)
* Ken Shima – keyboards (A3, B2)
* Hiromichi Tsugaki – keyboards (A4, A5)
* Nobita Tsukada – keyboards (A2, B1, B4)
*
Yasuhiko Fukuda – keyboards (B4)
* Kenji Takamizu – bass (A3)
* Yasuo Tomikura – bass (B2)
*
Hiroshi Sawada – bass (A1, B3)
* Chiharu Mikuzugi – bass (B4)
*
Shuichi "Ponta" Murakami – drums (A3)
* Eiji Shimamura – drums (B2)
* Reuben Tsujino – drums (B4)
* Mansaku Kimura – drums (A1, B3)
* Ryo Saito – percussion (A2, B1)
* Carlos Kanno – percussion (A1, A3, B3)
* Nobu Saitō – percussion (B2)
* Kazuo Kamada – saxophone (A1, B3)
* Shigeo Fuchino – saxophone (A3, A4)
* Kōyō Murakami – trombone (B3)
* Harumi Mita – trombone (A4)
* The Three Pinkies – backing vocals (A1, A3, A4, A5)
* Yukari Fujiu – backing vocals (B4)
* Hiromasa Ijichi – backing vocals (B3)
* Maeda Strings – string orchestra (A3)
* Tomoda Strings – string orchestra (B2)
* Tomoaki Arima – synthesizer programming (A1, A4, A5, B3)
* Takanori Umeno – synthesizer programming (A3, B2)
Charts
References
External links
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1987 debut albums
Chisato Moritaka albums
Japanese-language albums
Warner Music Japan albums