Oiro Naoshi Explained
| Change (Oiro Naoshi) |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Miyuki Nakajima |
| Cover: | oironaoshimn.jpg |
| Released: | April 17, 1985 |
| Recorded: | Hitokuchizaka and Epicurus Studios (except backing track for "Kamome wa Kamome" recorded at Ishibashi Memorial Hall) |
| Genre: | Folk rock, kayōkyoku |
| Length: | 38:09 |
| Label: | Canyon Records/AARD-VARK, Yamaha Music Communications |
| Producer: | Miyuki Nakajima, Yoshihiro Kai, Tsugutoshi Goto, Nobutaka Tsugei, Kasumasa Yoshizaki |
| Prev Title: | How Do You Do (Hajimemashite)- |
| Prev Year: | 1984 |
| Year: | 1985 |
| Next Title: | miss M. |
| Next Year: | 1985 |
is the 12th studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter Miyuki Nakajima. It was released in April 1985. The album comprises nine tracks originally written for other singers, including "Kamome wa Kamome," which is known as one of the signature songs for Naoko Ken, and "Sparrow (Suzume)", which became the sole top-ten charting solo single for ex-Pink Lady member Keiko Masuda.
Track listing
All songs written by Miyuki Nakajima, except the music of "Bibou no Miyako" composed by Kyouhei Tsutsumi
Side two
Personnel
Kai Band
- Yoshihiro Kai – guitars, backing vocals
- Nobukazu Omori – guitars
- Hideo Matsufuji – drums
- Ichiro Tanaka – guitars
Sentimental City Romance
- Nobutaka Tsugei – E. Guitar, Keyboards, Percussion & Chorus
- Fumio Kondo – drums
- Yutaka Hosoi – keyboards, chorus
- Tokuo Nakano – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, chorus
- Kiyoshi Hisada – electric bass, chorus
Crystal King
- Katsumasa "Monsieur" Yoshizaki – percussion, chorus
- Masayuki Tanaka – chorus
- Kimiharu Nakamura – piano
- Hiromi Imakiire – keyboards
- Michio Yamashita – electric guitars
- Hidetoshi Nomoto – electric bass
- Kazuyoshi Takagi – drums
Additional musicians
- Yasuo Tomikura – electric bass
- Tsugutoshi Goto – electric bass, electric guitar
- Haruo Togashi – piano, keyboards
- Elton Nagata – keyboards
- Kuni Kawauchi – pipe organ
- Hideki Matsutake – synthesizer programming
- Shigeo Fuchino – saxophone
- Kiyoshi Saito – saxophone
- Pecker – percussion
- Hideo Yamaki – drums
- Maeda Strings – strings
Production
- Composer, lyricist, Producer and Performer: Miyuki Nakajima (credited in association with Airando)
- Composer for "Bibou no Miyako": Kyohei Tsutsumi
- Arrangers: Chito Kawauchi (on M1,6), Nobutaka Tsugei (on M2,3,5), Michio Yamashita and Crystal King (on M4,7), Tsugutoshi Goto (on M8),Kuni Kawauchi (on M9)
- Recording Director: Yoshio Okujima
- Director: Yuzo Watanabe
- Art Director: Jin Tamura
- Designer: Hirofumi Arai
- Costume Designer: Kazumi Yamase
- Manager: Osamu Tsuchiya
- Executive Producer: Genichi Kawakami
- Special Thanks: Ken Okugawa
Mixed at the TAKE ONE and Epicurus Studios, Tokyo, Japan
Chart positions
| Year | Country | Chart | Position | Weeks | Sales |
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| 1985 | Japan | Oricon Weekly LP Albums Chart (top 100)[1] | 1 | 14 | 338,000 |
| Oricon Weekly CT Albums Chart (top 100) | 1 | 19 |
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Release history
| Country | Date | Label | Format | Catalog number |
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| Japan | April 17, 1985 | Audio cassette | Pony | 28P-6416 |
| Canyon Records | LP | C25A-0404 |
| April 21, 1985 | CD | D32A-0073 |
| March 1, 1985 | LP | C32A-0406 |
| March 21, 1989 | Pony Canyon | CD | D35A-0464 |
| May 21, 1990 | PCCA-00081 |
| April 18, 2001 | Yamaha Music Communications | YCCW-00015 |
| October 1, 2008 | YCCW-10064 |
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Notes and References
- Web site: Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) – Albums Chart Daijiten – Miyuki Nakajima . ja . January 24, 2008 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071224184721/http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~yamag/album/al_nakajima.html . December 24, 2007 .
