Handsome Boy (album)

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Handsome Boy is the 14th studio album by a Japanese singer-songwriter Yōsui Inoue, released in 1990.

The album contains the songs that were already known through the commercial tie-in with television programs or advertisements. Like "Gallery" which was recorded by Yoko Oginome and released as a single in June 1990, some of the materials were previously interpreted by other performers.[1]

Prior to the album, three songs were released as a single; "Yume Ne Mi", "Saigo no News", and "Shounen Jidai" which was co-written by Natsumi Hirai and has been one of his most well-known songs throughout Inoue's longtime career. It was initially featured on the theme song for an award-winning film adaptation of Fujiko Fujio (A)'s manga Childhood Days (based on Hyouzou Kashiwabara's novel Nagai Michi).[2] The song was gradually recognized through the TV ad of Sony Handycam which was aired during the following year. "Shounen Jidai" became his biggest hit single, peaking at #4 on the Japanese chart and selling more than 850,000 copies in total. In 1997, 3-inch CD single of the song was certified quadruple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of Japan, for shipments of over 1 million copies. [3]

Led by the success of a single "Shounen Jidai", the album Handsome Boy itself also gained favorable reaction, peaking at #2 on the Japanese Oricon chart and entering top-100 for over 10 months with sales of about 640,000 copies.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Yōsui Inoue, unless otherwise noted

  1. "Pi Po Pa" - 3:55
  2. "Emily (エミリー, Emirī)" - 3:35
  3. "Rival (ライバル, Raibaru)" (Inoue, Yūji Kawashima) - 3:51
  4. "Saigo no News (最後のニュース)" - 3:55
  5. "Gallery (ギャラリー, Gyararī)" - 5:07
  6. "Shounen Jidai (少年時代)" (Inoue, Natsumi Hirai) - 3:21
  7. "Fiction (フィクション, Fikushon)" - 3:21
  8. "Tokyo" (Inoue, Hirai) - 3:56
  9. "Yume Ne Mi (夢寝見)" - 5:03
  10. "Shizen ni Kazararete (自然に飾られて)" (Inoue, Hirai) - 6:07
  11. "Choujikan no Hikou (長時間の飛行)" (Inoue, Kawashima) - 4:22

Personnel

  • Yōsui Inoue - Vocals, acoustic guitar
  • Hiromi Yasuda - Acoustic guitar
  • Kenji Ōmura - Electric guitar
  • Tomotaka Imamichi - Electric guitar
  • Jun Sumida - Electric guitar
  • Masaki Matsubara - Electric guitar
  • Masayoshi Furukawa - Gut-string guitar
  • Hirokazu Ogura - Gut-string guitar
  • Masami Satou - Gut-string guitar
  • Tsugutoshi Goto - Bass guitar
  • Motofumi Hagiwara - Bass guitar
  • Chiharu Mikuzuki - Bass guitar
  • Vagabond Suzuki - Bass guitar
  • Haruomi Hosono - Bass guitar, synthesizer, percussion
  • Tadashi Nanba - Synthesizer
  • Akira Inoue - Synthesizer
  • Miharu Koshi - Synthesizer
  • Akira Senju - Synthesizer
  • Shinji Kawahara - Piano
  • Takao Kisugi - Piano
  • Yasuharu Nakanishi - Piano
  • Yūji Kawashima - Synthesizer, computer programming
  • Takeshi Fujii - Computer programming
  • Hiroaki Sugawara - Computer programming
  • Nobuo Tsuji - Computer programming
  • Ma*to - Computer programming
  • Yasuo Kimoto - Computer programming
  • Motoya Hamaguchi - Percussion
  • Eiji Narushima - Percussion
  • Masato Hashida - Percussion
  • Makoto Kimura - Percussion
  • Hinotamao - Percussion
  • Hideo Yamaki - Drums
  • Eiji Shimamura - Drums
  • Yutaka Odawara - Drums
  • Junichi Kazezaki - Brasswinds
  • Shin Kazuhara - Brasswinds
  • Kenichirou Hayashi - Brasswinds
  • Masahiro Kobayashi - Brasswinds
  • Kenji Nakazawa - Brasswinds
  • Kenji Nishiyama - Brasswinds
  • Taro Kiyooka - Brasswinds
  • Sumiyo Okada - Brasswinds
  • Watanabe Katsu - Brasswinds
  • Teiko Haruna - Woodwinds
  • Mitsuru Souma - Woodwinds
  • Ryūji Hoshikawa - Woodwinds
  • Tadashi Togame - Woodwinds
  • Masakazu Ishibashi - Woodwinds
  • Toshitsugu Inoue - Woodwinds
  • Jake H. Conception - Woodwinds
  • Hirofumi Kinjou - Woodwinds
  • Masaki Takano - Woodwinds
  • Hiroyuki Ichihara - Woodwinds
  • Hidefumi Toki - Woodwinds
  • Aska Kaneko Strings - Strings
  • Akiko Yano - Chorus
  • Minako Yoshida - Chorus
  • Seri Ishikawa - Chorus

Chart positions

Album

Album Chart Position Weeks Sales
Handsome Boy Japanese Oricon Weekly Albums Chart (top 100) 2[4] 44 639,000+

Singles

Single B-Side Chart Position Weeks Sales
"Yume Ne Mi" "Beni Suberi" Japanese Oricon Weekly (top 100)[5] 37 6 23,000
"Saigo no News" "Back Side" 57 6 16,000
"Shounen Jidai" "Ara-Washi no Uta" 4 38 853,000

Release history

Country Date Label Format Catalog number Notes
Japan October 20, 1990 For Life Records CD FLCF-30081
Audio cassette FLTF-26021
May 30, 2001 CD FLCF-3858 Original recording digital remastered
March 25, 2009 For Life Music Entertainment/BMG SHM-CD FLCF-5011

References

  1. ^ 荻野目洋子 Official Website "single / discography". oginome.com (in Japanese). Retrieved 2009-06-15. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)
  2. ^ 映画 少年時代 - "allcinema (Movie & DVD Database) - the motion picture Childhood Days" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2009-05-11. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)
  3. ^ RIAJ Certified Million Seller Singles "List of the singles certified "Million" by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (1989-2009)" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2009-06-15. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)
  4. ^ "Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) - Albums Chart Daijiten - Yosui Inoue" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2009-04-24.
  5. ^ "Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) - Singles Chart Daijiten - Yosui Inoue" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2009-04-24.
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