Short Stories (Miyuki Nakajima album) explained

Short Stories (Tanpenshū)
Type:	Album
Artist:	Miyuki Nakajima
Cover:	TanpenCover.jpg
Released:	15 November 2000
Recorded:	CelIo Studios(Los Angeles) Epicurus Studios(Tokyo) PARADISE studio KOMAZAWA(Tokyo) Bunkamura Studio(Tokyo)
Genre:	Folk rock
Length:	54:43
Label:	Yamaha Music Communications
Producer:	Ichizo Seo, Miyuki Nakajima
Prev Year:	1999
Next Title:	Lullaby for the Soul (Kokoromoriuta)
Next Year:	2001

is the 28th studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter Miyuki Nakajima, released in November 2000. The album features commercially successful double A-Side single "Earthly Stars (Unsung Heroes)"/"Headlight, Taillight", which became the number-one hit in later years and sold more than a million copies in Japan alone.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Miyuki Nakajima, arranged by Ichizo Seo (except "Powdery Snow" co-arranged by David Campbell).

1. "" – 5:11
2. "" – 5:17
3. "" – 4:35
4. "" – 6:15
5. "Merry-Go-Round" – 5:54
6. "" – 4:24
7. "" – 3:43
8. "" – 2:32
9. "" – 6:32
10. "Tell Me, Sister" – 5:23
11. "" – 4:57

Personnel

Band

• Miyuki Nakajima – vocals
• Ichizo Seo – keyboards, strings arrangement & conduct
• Hideo Yamaki – tomtom, cymbals
• Russ Kunkel – drums
• Vinnie Colaiuta – drums
• Gregg Bissonette – drums
• Neil Stubenhaus – bass guitar
• Hideki Matsubara – bass guitar
• Leland Sklar – bass guitar
• Michael Thompson – electric and acoustic guitar
• Masayoshi Furukawa – electric guitar, 12-strings acoustic guitar
• Elton Nagata – keyboards, acoustic and electric piano
• Shingo Kobayashi – keyboards, acoustic piano
• Jon Gilutin – acoustic and electric piano, hammond B-3, keyboards
• Yasuharu Nakanishi – keyboards
• Keishi Urata- computer programming
• Seiichi Takubo – computer programming
• Yousuke Sugimoto – computer programming
• Brandon Fields – tenor sax

Backing vocalists

• Fumikazu Miyashita – backing and harmony vocals
• Yasuhiro Kido – backing vocals
• Katsumi Maeda – backing vocals
• Toshiro Kirigaya – backing vocals
• Etsuro Wakakonai – backing vocals
• Julia Waters – backing vocals
• Maxine Waters – backing vocals
• Carmen Twillie – backing vocals
• Monalisa Young – backing vocals
• Clydene Jackson Edwards – backing vocals
• Oren Waters – backing vocals
• Luther Waters – backing vocals
• Johnny Britt – backing vocals
• Joseph Powell – backing vocals
• Terry Young – backing vocals
• Rick Logan – backing vocals
• Randy Crenshaw – backing vocals
• John Batdorf – backing vocals

Additional personnel

• David Campbell – strings arrangement, conducting
• Suzie Katayama – conducting
• Masatsugu Shinozaki – violin, concertmaster
• Joel Derouin – violin, concertmaster
• Bruce Dukov – violin
• Mario De Leon – violin
• Armen Garabedian – violin
• Berj Garabedian – violin
• Endre Grant – violin
• Peter Kent – violin
• Rachel Purkin – violin
• Michele Richards – violin
• John Wittenberg – violin
• Charlie Bisharat – violin
• Brian Leonard – violin
• Robert Peterson – violin
• Haim Shtrim – violin
• Kiyo Kido – violin
• Jun Yamamoto – violin
• Yumiko Hirose – violin
• Osamu Inou – violin
• Kei Shinozaki – violin
• Yu Sugino – violin
• Naoyuki Takahashi – violin
• Kathrine Cash – violin
• Tsunehiro Shigyo – violin
• Keiko Nakamura – violin
• Machia Saito – violin
• Crusher Kimura – violin
• Takashi Kato – violin
• Masayoshi Fujiyama – violin
• Hitoshi Imano – violin
• Yukikane Murata – violin
• Jun Takeuchi – violin
• Akihiko Suzuki – violin
• Takayuki Oshigane – violin
• Akiko Kato – violin
• Hiroki Muto – violin
• Masako Mabuchi – viola
• Yuji Yamada – viola
• Gentaro Sakaguchi – viola
• Denyse Buffum – viola
• Matthew Funes – viola
• Janet Lakatos – viola
• Karie Prescott – viola
• Joshin Toyama – viola
• Gentaro Sakaguchi – viola
• Kaori Naruse – viola
• Masaharu Karita – cello
• Tomoya Kikuchi – cello
• Hiroki Kashiwagi – cello
• Yoshihiko Maeda – cello
• Masahiro Tanaka – cello
• Susumu Miyake – cello
• Steve Richards – cello
• Daniel Smith – cello
• Rudolph Stein – cello
• Paula Hoochatter – cello
• Don Markese – tin whistle, recorder

Chart positions

Single

Year	Country	Song(s)	Chart	Position	Weeks	Sales
2000–03	Japan	"Earthly Stars (Unsung Heroes)" "Headlight, Taillight"	Oricon Weekly Singles Chart (top 100)	1	183^[2]	1.1 million+
			Oricon Weekly Singles Chart (top 200)		202^[3]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Yamachan Land (Japanese Chart Archives) – Albums Chart Daijiten – Miyuki Nakajima . . Japanese . 24 August 2008 . dead . https://archive.today/20070619175006/http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~yamag/album/al_nakajima.html . 19 June 2007 .
2. Web site: "Nada Sousou" climbed the chart again. oricon.co.jp. Japanese. Oricon. 6 November 2008.
3. Web site: Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) – Singles Chart Daijiten – Miyuki Nakajima. Japanese. 6 November 2008. dead. https://archive.today/20070619175006/http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~yamag/single/nakajima.html. 19 June 2007.