
Ikiteitemo Iidesuka
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is a seventh studio album by a Japanese singer-songwriter Miyuki Nakajima
, released in April 1980.
Miyuki Nakajima
is a Japanese vocalist, guitarist, lyricist, composer and radio personality. As a principal Japanese female veteran singer-songwriter she is often compared to Yumi Matsutoya, she has released 37 studio albums, 40 singles, 2 live albums and multiple compilations to date, and whose sales have been...
, released in April 1980.
Track listing
All songs written and composed by Miyuki Nakajima, except an untitled interlude composed by Tsugutoshi Goto.Side one
All songs arranged by Tsugutoshi Goto, except "Sobaya" co-arranged by Miyuki Nakajima- "" – 7:27
- "" – 4:54
- "" – 4:08
- "" – 5:09
Side two
All songs arranged by Tsugutoshi Goto, except "Ikoku" co-arranged by Miyuki Nakajima- "" – 5:12
- Untitled – 1:10
- "" – 7:44
- "" – 9:12
Personnel
- Miyuki Nakajima - vocals, acoustic guitarAcoustic guitarAn acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound...
- Takahiko Ishikawa - acoustic guitar, flat mandolin
- Shigeru Suzuki - electric guitar
- Tsugutoshi Goto - electric bass
- Makiko Tashiro - keyboards
- Akira Nishimoto - keyboards
- Fumihiko Kazama - accordionAccordionThe accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....
- Nobuo Yagi - harmonica
- Shin Kazuhara - piccolo trumpet
- Yukio Eto - flute, alto flute, bass flute
- Minoru Muraoka - shakuhachiShakuhachiThe is a Japanese end-blown flute. It is traditionally made of bamboo, but versions now exist in ABS and hardwoods. It was used by the monks of the Fuke school of Zen Buddhism in the practice of...
- Rien Takimoto - drums
- Hiro Tsunoda - drums
- Yas-Kaz Sato - latin percussions
- Yoshihisa Tamano - violin
- Joe Ensemble - strings
Chart positions
Year | Country | Chart | Position | Weeks | Sales |
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1980 | Japan | Oricon Weekly LP Albums Chart (top 100) | 1 | 27 | 330,000 |
Oricon Weekly CT Albums Chart (top 100) | 1 | 20 | |||
Release history
Country | Date | Format | Label | Catalog number |
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Japan | April 5, 1980 | LP LP album The LP, or long-playing microgroove record, is a format for phonograph records, an analog sound storage medium. Introduced by Columbia Records in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry... |
Canyon Records | C25A-0089 |
Audio cassette | Pony | 25P-7117 | ||
March 1, 1981 | LP LP album The LP, or long-playing microgroove record, is a format for phonograph records, an analog sound storage medium. Introduced by Columbia Records in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry... |
Canyon Records | C28A-0149 | |
May 21, 1981 | Audio cassette | Pony | 28P-6072 | |
September 1, 1983 | CD | Canyon Records | D35A-0018 | |
November 5, 1986 | D32A-0230 | |||
March 21, 1989 | Pony Canyon | D35A-0459 | ||
May 21, 1990 | PCCA-00076 | |||
April 18, 2001 | Yamaha Music Communications | YCCW-00010 | ||
October 1, 2008 | YCCW-10059 | |||