is the ninth studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter

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, released in June 1980. Pictures featured on the back and front sleeve art were taken at the

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. No songs were released as a single except "Tamerai", which first appeared as a B-side of the non-album track "Daydream", released in May 1980. Like other studio albums which came out after she remained with EMI in 1977 when Alfa finally started operating as a record label, ''Toki no Nai Hotel'' was released on CD for the first time in 1985. The album was reissued in 1999,

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Track listing

All songs written and composed by Yumi Matsutoya, arranged by Masataka Matsutoya. #""– 5:26 #"" – 4:15 #"Miss Lonely" – 4:28 #"Ame ni Kieta JoggerThe term "Joger" is a misspelling of "Jogger". " – 5:00 #"" – 3:46 #"" – 4:30 #"" – 6:22 #"" – 7:18 #"" – 4:02 Footnotes

Recorded versions

*"Mizu no Kage" was originally written for the female folk duo called Simons in 1978. *"Tamerai" was originally written for Midori Hagio. The song was later covered by Yoshiko Miyazaki, Keiko Saito, and Pink Lady member

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. *''Queen's Fellows'', a 2002 tribute album for Matsutoya includes two cover versions of the songs which were featured on ''Toki no Nai Hotel''; "Cecile no Shumatsu" performed by Aiko and the title track by Takao Tajima.

Personnel

*Masataka Matsutoya - keyboards *Tatsuo Hayashi - drums *Jun Aoyama - drums *Yuichi Tokashiki - drums *Nobu Saito - percussion *Kenji Takamizu - bass guitar *Tsugutoshi Goto - bass guitar *Masaki Matsubara - electric guitar *Shigeru Suzuki - electric guitar *Tsuyoshi Kon - electric guitar *Chuei Yoshikawa - acoustic guitar, mandolin *Hiromi Yasuda - acoustic guitar *Masamichi Sugi - backing vocals *Kiyoshi Saito - saxophone *Jake H Conception - saxophone *Shunzo Sunabara - saxophone *Yukio Eto - flute *Eiju Yamada - horn *Yasuhiro Okita- horn *Tomato Strings Unsemble - strings *Junichi Hiiro - violin *Leona - backing vocals *Clara - backing vocals *Lilika - backing vocals *Hideki Matsutake - synthesizer programming

Chart position

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Toki No Nai Hotel 1980 albums Yumi Matsutoya albums EMI Music Japan albums