''Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi'' is a compilation album by pop duo

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, released in 2004. It was compiled to tie in with the group's

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of the same name. There is also a Japanese version of this CD, of which contains the subtitle, "Happy Fun Rock Music from the Series" and includes two additional "TV Mix" tracks. The album peaked at #49 on the

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Track listing

# " Hi Hi" (Onuki, Yoshimura, Sturmer) – 2:54 # "Friends Forever" (Sturmer) – 4:03 # "Planet Tokyo" (Sturmer) – 3:50 # "Joining a Fan Club" (

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, Sturmer) – 3:58 # "Forever" (Sturmer) – 2:29 # "V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N" (Yasuharu) – 3:30 # "Love So Pure" (Sturmer) – 3:57 # " True Asia" (Inoue, Okuda) – 4:40 # " Boogie-Woogie No. 5" (Okuda) – 4:10 # "

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" (Okuda) – 3:19 # "Sunrise" (Onuki, Yoshimura, Sturmer) – 3:56 # "Into the Beach" (also known as "To the Beach" (Okuda) – 3:12 # "December" (Onuki, Yoshimura, Sturmer) – 4:20 # "Teen Titans Theme" (Sturmer) – 3:10 # "Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi (TV Mix)" (Sturmer) – 2:59 † # "Teen Titans Theme (TV Mix)" (Sturmer) – 3:06 † † Appears only on the Japanese Version of this CD.

Personnel

* Ami Onuki -

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or withou ...

* Yumi Yoshimura -

* Puffy AmiYumi - vocals, harmony * Ikhoka Mukara - guitar * Kohsaku Abe - drums * Shinji Asakura -

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Ex ...

* Dorian Crozier - drums * John Fields - bass,

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...

, keyboards * Takashi Furuta - drums, harmony * Michael S. Kawai - percussion * Hiroharu Kinoshita - bass * Maki Kitada - bass * Masahiro Kitahara -

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 ...

* Haruo Kubota - guitar * Daisaku Kume - keyboards * Takamune Negishi - bass, harmony * Tamio Okuda - guitar,

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 ...

vocoder A vocoder (, a portmanteau of ''voice'' and ''encoder'') is a category of speech coding that analyzes and synthesizes the human voice signal for audio data compression, multiplexing, voice encryption or voice transformation. The vocoder was ...

, harmony * Susumu Osada - guitar, harmonica * Zac Rae - glockenspiel,

theremin The theremin (; originally known as the ætherphone/etherphone, thereminophone or termenvox/thereminvox) is an electronic musical instrument controlled without physical contact by the performer (who is known as a thereminist). It is named afte ...

, optigan * Yuta Saito - keyboards * Zuyi Ratza - background vocals * Tetsutaro Sakurai - background vocals * Iyaza Kukora - background vocals * Thomas Tjärnqvist - bass, guitar, keyboards * Lyle Workman - guitar * Konishi Yasuharu - keyboards

Production

* Producers: Tamio Okuda, Tetsutaro Sakurai, Andy Sturmer * Executive producers: Yasunori Heguri, Taizo Ito * Mixing: David Bianco, John Fields, Osamu Hirose, Tetsuhiro Miyajima, David Thoener, Dave Way, Joe Zook * Mastering: Stephen Marcussen * A&R: June Shinozaki * Director: Isao Tanuma * Compilation: Kaz Utsunomiya * Art direction: Aimee MacAuley * Design: Aimee MacAuley * Photography: Bruce Osborn

References

External links

* Puffy AmiYumi albums Epic Records albums 2004 albums Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi Cartoon Network albums {{2000s-album-stub