is the sixth studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter

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, released in November 1979. ''Okaerinasai'' peaked at number two on the Japanese Oricon LP chart, and became one of her most commercially successful albums, selling over 530,000 copies.

Background

The album contains self-cover versions of the songs Nakajima composed for other artists, including five top-40 hit singles—"Abayo" sung by

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(reached #3 and #11 on the chart from in 1977–78, respectively), "If I Could Take to the Sky" performed by Tokiko Kato (peaked at #14 in 1978), and "Ame..." by Rumiko Koyanagi (reached #25 in 1978). It also features the song "

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's 1977 album of the same name. It was later widely recognized around the Asian countries, because of the cover version interpreted by

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on her album '' Coming Home'' in 1992.

Track listing

All songs composed by Miyuki Nakajima, except the lyrics of "Yomaigoto" written by Yu Aku

Side one

Side two

Personnel

*Miyuki Nakajima - Lead vocal, acoustic guitar *Toshiaki Usui - Acoustic guitar *Hiromi Yasuda - Acoustic guitar *Nobuo Tsunetomi - Acoustic guitar *Yasushi Suehara - Acoustic guitar *Chūei Yoshikawa - Acoustic guitar *Shigeru Suzuki - Electric guitar *Kimio Mizutani - Electric guitar *Munemitsu Noguchi - Steel guitar *Tsugotoshi Gotō - Electric bass *Rei Ohara - Electric bass *Shigehiro Takahashi - Electric bass *Shigeaki Takebe - Electric bass *Kazumi Okayama - Drums *Eiji Shimamura - Drums *Yūichi Togashiki - Drums *Tatsuo Hayashi - Drums *Nobu Saitō - Percussion *Yasukazu Satō - Percussion *Jun Sato - Keyboards *Hiroshi Shibui - Keyboards *Makiko Tashiro - Keyboards *Hidetoshi Yamada - Keyboards *Jake H. Conception -

Saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of Single-reed instrument, single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed (mouthpi ...

*Shin Kazuhara -

Trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...

*Eiji Arai -

Trombone The trombone (german: Posaune, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate ...

*Sumio Okada - Trombone *Yasuo Hirauchi - Trombone *Masao Suzuki - Clarinet *First Music - Strings *Isao Kaneyama -

Marimba The marimba () is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars that are struck by mallets. Below each bar is a resonator pipe that amplifies particular harmonics of its sound. Compared to the xylophone, the timbre ...

*Fumihiko Kazama - Midget Accordion *Keiji Azami - Dulcimer *Osamu Tozuka - Chorus *Hiroshi Narumi - Chorus

Production

*Designer: Hirofumi Arai *Disk Promoter: Yoshiki Ishikawa *Recording Director: Yoshio Okujima *Recording & Mixing Engineer: Yoshihiko Kaminari, Koji Sakakibara, Shoya Mizutani *Manager: Hiroshi Kojima *Assistant Promotion Manager: Kunio Kaneko *Disk Co-ordinator: Yuzo Watanabe *Costume Designer: Mihoko Kiyokawa *Art Director: Jin Tamura *Remixing & Mastering Engineer: Kinji Yoshino *General Producer: Genichi Kawakami *Special Thanks to Sailor Shinohara

Chart positions

References

{{Authority control Miyuki Nakajima albums 1979 albums Pony Canyon albums Self-covers albums