''Side Line'' is the fourth
studio album
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by the
Japanese pop
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group
Onyanko Club
was a large all-girl Japanese pop idol group in the 1980s. Some members of the group participated in spin-off groups, such as Nyangilas, Ushiroyubi Sasaregumi and Ushirogami Hikaretai. Many of the latter two groups' songs were used as theme ...
. It was released on February 21, 1987,
through
Canyon Records
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History
Canyon was founded in 1951 by Ray and Mary Boley, who had opened the first recording studio in Phoenix, Arizon ...
in
LP and
CD format. It peaked at number one on the
Oricon
, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics
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charts and sold a total of 69,000 copies.
Overview
This is the first Onyanko Club album to not contain any single A-sides. However, the B-side for "
NO MORE Ren'aigokko", "Anata dake Oyasuminasai", was included. It is also the first album to feature numbers 38, 40, 41, 42, and 47, the first and last to feature numbers 43 through 46, and the last to feature numbers 6, 8, 13, 15 & 16 until the next album, ''
Circle
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'', was released. (Two members were not in ''Circle''.)
Participating members
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Aki Kihara (#6)
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Sayuri Kokushō
is a Japanese actress, singer, and tarento. She was an original member of Onyanko Club. She works for the talent management firm Sony Music Entertainment Japan, Sony Music Artists. Her debut single, "Valentine Kiss", is the most popular Valenti ...
(#8)
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Kazuko Utsumi (#13)
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Harumi Tomikawa (#14)
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Rika Tatsumi (singer) (#15)
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Mamiko Takai (#16)
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Sanae Jōnouchi (#17)
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Ruriko Nagata (#18)
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Yukiko Iwai (#19)
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Mako Shiraishi (#22)
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Mutsumi Yokota (#28)
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Minayo Watanabe (#29)
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Tomoko Fukawa (#33)
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Marina Watanabe
is a Japanese actress, singer, and TV-personality. She was born in Ota, Tokyo, Japan, and is currently married to Jun Nagura of the comedy trio Neptune. She is a former Japanese idol singer who is now known as a television commentator and aut ...
(#36)
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Shizuka Kudō (#38)
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Akiko Ikuina
is a Japanese singer, actress, tarento, and politician. She joined the Japanese pop idol group Onyanko Club in 1986.
Early life and education
She was born in Setagaya, Tokyo, but moved to Koganei when she was a little girl. She has an elder sis ...
(#40)
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Noriko Kaise (#41)
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Makiko Saitō
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(#42)
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Toshie Moriya (#43)
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Naoko Takada (#44)
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Yumiko Yoshida (#45)
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Sanae Nakajima (#46)
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Yuriko Yamamori (#47)
Track listings
All songs written by
Yasushi Akimoto
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, except "Shin Shin Kaiin Bangō no Uta" written by
Satsuo Endō.
LP version
CD version
Personnel
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Fumio Miyata – recording coordinator
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Hiroshi Saisu – recording engineer
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Tatsuya Sawada – recording engineer, remixing engineer
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Keizoh Suzuki – recording engineer
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Hiroshi Watanabe – recording director
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Kazuya Yoshida – recording engineer, remixing engineer
References
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Onyanko Club albums
1987 albums
1980s Japanese-language albums