Lion & Pelican
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Lion & Pelican is the tenth studio album recorded and produced by a Japanese singer-songwriter Yōsui Inoue
, released in December 1982.
The album has been well known for a song "Riverside Hotel", which was originally released as a single before the album came out. It became a smash hit in later years, because the song was featured as a theme song for the drama
Love Story in New York aired on Fuji TV in 1988.
Lion & Pelican also includes Inoue's own rendition of "Senaka Made 45-fun" and "Chinese Food", the songs that he previously wrote for Kenji Sawada
's album Mis Cast released in 1982.
The album itself gained moderate commercial success, selling in excess of 150,000 copies although it couldn't reach the top-ten on the charts.
Yosui Inoue
is a Japanese singer, lyricist, composer, guitarist and record producer, who is an important figure in Japanese music. He is renowned for his unique tone, eccentric lyrics, and dark sunglasses which he always wears....
, released in December 1982.
The album has been well known for a song "Riverside Hotel", which was originally released as a single before the album came out. It became a smash hit in later years, because the song was featured as a theme song for the drama
Japanese television drama
, also called , are a staple of Japanese television and are broadcast daily. All major TV networks in Japan produce a variety of drama series including murder romance, comedy, detective stories, horror, and many others...
Love Story in New York aired on Fuji TV in 1988.
Lion & Pelican also includes Inoue's own rendition of "Senaka Made 45-fun" and "Chinese Food", the songs that he previously wrote for Kenji Sawada
Kenji Sawada
, nicknamed "Julie" , also-known as vocalist for the Japanese rock band The Tigers, is a Japanese singer, composer, lyricist and actor. He was born in Tsunoi, Iwami , Tottori Prefecture, Japan, and raised in Sakyo-ku, Kyoto at age 3...
's album Mis Cast released in 1982.
The album itself gained moderate commercial success, selling in excess of 150,000 copies although it couldn't reach the top-ten on the charts.
Track listing
All lyrics written and composed by Yosui Inoue- ""
- "Chinese Food"
- ""
- ""
- ""
- ""
- ""
- ""
- ""
- ""
Personnel
The following personnel was credited in the liner notes for box-set No Selection, released in 1991.- Yōsui Inoue - Lead vocals, chorus, guitar
- Tōru Aoyama - Guitar
- Kazuo Shiina - Guitar
- Fujimal Yoshino - Guitar
- Hiromi Yasuda - Guitar
- Kenji Ōmura - Guitar
- RA - Guitar
- Ryōmei Shirai - Guitar
- Makoto Matsushita - Guitar
- Akira Wada - Guitar
- Tsugutoshi Gotō - Bass
- Akira Okazawa - Bass
- Michio Nagaoka - Bass
- Shigeru Okazawa - Bass
- Kiyofumi Onoda - Bass
- Yasuharu Nakanishi - Keyboards
- Ryoichi Kuniyoshi - Keyboards
- Tōru Okada - Keyboards
- Yūji Kawashima - Synthesizer
- Izumi Kobayashi - Synthesizer
- Osamu Nakajima - Percussion
- Motoya Hamaguchi - Percussion
- Hideo Yamaki - Drums
- Jun Aoyama - Drums
- Eiji Shimamura - Drums
- Kiyoshi Tanaka - Drums
Production
- Producer, performer, composer, lyricist: Yōsui Inoue
- Arranger: Yūji Kawashima(M2/4/5/10), Katz Hoshi (M1/7), Tsugutoshi Gotō (M3/9), Ginji Itou (M6), Yasuharu Nakanishi (M8)
- Director: Shohei Kaneko
- Recording and Remix Engineer:Toshiyuki Iizumi, Tomiji Iyobe, Yūji Kawashima
- Coordinator: Masahiko Ikeda
- Art Director: Isao Sakai
- Photographer: Katsuo Hanzawa
- Stylist: Hideo Mori
- Hair/Make: Kikumaru
- Design: Takeharu Tanaka,Yumiko Ohta (Soap inc.)
- Artist Management: Camp Co.,Ltd.
Album
| Year | Album | Country | Chart | Position | Weeks | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982-83 | Lion and Pelican | Japan | Oricon Weekly LP Albums Chart (top 100) | 13 | 24 | 158,000+ |
| Oricon Weekly CT Albums Chart (top 100) | 22 | 24 | ||||
Singles
| Single | B-Side | Chart | Position | Weeks | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ”Riverside Hotel" | "Ore no Jimusho wa Camp" | Japanese Oricon Weekly (top 100) | 11 | 44 | 214,000 |
| "Tomadou Pelican" | "Music High" | 69 | 7 | 20,000 | |
| "Aisaretebakari Iru to" [Single version] | "Senaka Made Yonjū-go Fun" | 35 | 9 | 41,000 |
Release history
| Country | Date | Label | Format | Catalog number | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Japan | December 5, 1982 | For Life Records | 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... |
28K45 | |
| Audio cassette | 28C29 | ||||
| April 21, 1985 | CD Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,... |
35KD8 | |||
| February 21, 1990 | FLCF-29033 | ||||
| May 30, 2001 | FLCF-3853 | Original recording digitally remastered | |||
| March 25, 2009 | For Life Music Entertainment/BMG | SHM-CD | FLCF-5006 | 2001 Digital remaster |