Shōtaijō no Nai Show

Shōtaijō no Nai Show
Studio album by
Yōsui Inoue
ReleasedMarch 25, 1976
GenreFolk rock
Length48:35
LabelFor Life
ProducerYōsui Inoue
Yōsui Inoue chronology
Yōsui Seitan
(1975) 		Shōtaijō no Nai Show
(1976) 		White
(1978)

Shōtaijō no Nai Show (招待状のないショー) is the fifth studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter Yosui Inoue, issued in March 1976. It was the first long-play record he released under the For Life Records, a record label that he joined as one of the co-founders and started in 1975.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Yōsui Inoue, except where indicated

Side one

  1. "Good, Good-Bye" – 3:37
  2. "Shōtaijō no Nai Show (招待状のないショー)" – 3:43
  3. "Makurakotoba (枕詞)" – 1:56
  4. "Aozora, Hitorikiri (青空、ひとりきり)" – 4:38
  5. "Summer" – 3:38
  6. "Magarikado (曲り角)" – 4:38
  7. "Kotoshi wa (今年は)" – 438

Side two

  1. "Minazuki no Yoru (水無月の夜)" – 4:39
  2. "Sakamichi (坂道)" (Inoue, Kei Ogura) – 3:22
  3. "Kuchibue (口笛)" – 3:02
  4. "I-Shi no Kekkon (I氏の結婚)" – 2:54
  5. "Mō...... (もう......)" – 3:45
  6. "Musubikotoba (結詞)" – 6:21

Personnel

  • Yōsui Inoue – Acoustic guitar, electric guitar, electric bass, backing vocals
  • Hiromi Yasuda – Acoustic guitar
  • Hirofumi Tokutake – Electric guitar
  • Masayoshi Takanaka – Electric guitar, acoustic guitar
  • Mitsuo Nagai – Electric guitar, flat mandolin
  • Kazuo Shiina – Electric guitar
  • Hirokuni Korekata (occasionally credited to Kunihiro Korekata) – Electric guitar
  • Kenji Ōmura – Electric guitar
  • Shigeru Suzuki – 12-string guitar
  • Hirobumi Suzuki – Electric bass
  • Toru Hirano – Electric bass
  • Tsugutoshi Goto – Electric bass
  • Rei Ohara – Electric bass
  • Hiroki Komazawa – Steel guitar
  • Kunimitsu Inaba – Wood bass
  • Masahiro Takekawa – Violin
  • Takayoshi Watanabe – Keyboards
  • Shigehito Ōhara – Piano
  • Masaru Imada – Electric piano
  • Jun Fukamachi – Electric piano
  • Akiko Yano – Keyboards, backing vocals
  • Makoto Yano – Keyboards, electric piano, rhythm box, percussion
  • Ichiro Maeda – Keyboards, percussion, rhythm box
  • Katz Hoshi – Percussion, backing vocals
  • Shuichi Murakami – Drums
  • Tatsuo Hayashi – Drums
  • Tetsurō Kashibuchi – Drums
  • Motoya Hamaguchi – Percussion
  • Sancho Nanoha – Percussion
  • Nobuo Saito – Percussion
  • Fujio Saito – Percussion
  • Yukiko Nishizawa – Ocarina
  • Sumio Okada – Horn
  • Kouji Hatori – Horn
  • Kinji Yoshino – 6th

Chart positions

Album

Year Country Chart Position Sales
1976 Japan Oricon Weekly LP Albums Chart (top 100)[1] 1 323,000+
Oricon Weekly CT Albums Chart (top 100)[1] 1

Singles

Year Single B-Side Chart Position Sales
1975 "Aozora, Hitorikiri" "Flight" Japanese Oricon Weekly (top 100)[2] 8 255,000
1976 "Good, Good-Bye" [Edit] "Kodomo e no Uta" 13 149,000

Release history

Country Date Label Format Catalog number Notes
Japan March 25, 1976 For Life Records LP FLL4002
Audio cassette 28K13
August 21, 1985 CD 35KD16
February 21, 1990 FLCF-29028
September 18, 1992 Audio cassette FLTF-28034
CD FLCF-29168
May 30, 2001 FLCF-3848 Original recording digitally remastered
March 25, 2009 For Life Music Entertainment/BMG SHM-CD FLCF-5001 2001 Digital remaster

References

  1. ^ a b "Yosui Inoue Oricon Albums Chart listings". Yamachan Land (Japan's charts archives) (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2007-06-19. Retrieved 2008-03-19.
  2. ^ "Yōsui Inoue Oricon Singles Chart listings". Yamachan Land (Japan's charts archives) (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2007-10-16. Retrieved 2008-03-19.