Lion & Pelican

Lion & Pelican
Lion & Pelican
Studio album by Yōsui Inoue
Released	December 5, 1982
Recorded	KRS Studio, Sound Inn Studio, Take One Studio, Banana Studio
Genre	Adult contemporary
Label	For Life
Producer	Yōsui Inoue
Yōsui Inoue chronology
Singles from Lion & Pelican
	"Riverside Hotel"; Released: July 5, 1982; "Tomadou Pelican"; Released: October 21, 1982; "Aisaretebakari Iru to"; Released: February 5, 1983;

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.^[1] 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

"Tomadou Pelican (とまどうペリカン)"
"Chinese Food"
"Yakusoku wa Reiji (約束は0時)"
"Aisaretebakari Iru to (愛されてばかりいると)"
"Canary (カナリア, Kanaria)"
"Love Shock Night (ラブショックナイト, Rabu Shokku Naito)"
"Riverside Hotel (リバーサイドホテル, Ribāsaido Hoteru)"
"Onegai wa Hitotsu (お願いはひとつ)"
"Wakannai (ワカンナイ)"
"Senaka Made 45-fun (背中まで45分)"

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.

Chart positions

Album

Year	Country	Chart	Position	Sales
1982-83	Japan	Oricon Weekly LP Albums Chart (top 100)^[2]	13	158,000+
1982-83	Japan	Oricon Weekly CT Albums Chart (top 100)	22	158,000+

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	28K45
	December 5, 1982		Audio cassette	28C29
	April 21, 1985		CD	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

References

^ "track listing of the album Mis Cast (2005 Original Recording Digitally Remastered Edition) by Kenji Sawada". goo.ne.jp (in Japanese). Archived from 沢田研二 MIS CAST - goo 音楽 the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2009-05-13. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)
^ "Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) - Albums Chart Daijiten - Yosui Inoue" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2007-06-19. Retrieved 2009-04-24.

[SawadaMC-1] "track listing of the album Mis Cast (2005 Original Recording Digitally Remastered Edition) by Kenji Sawada". goo.ne.jp (in Japanese). Archived from 沢田研二 MIS CAST - goo 音楽 the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2009-05-13. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)

[InoueLP-2] "Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) - Albums Chart Daijiten - Yosui Inoue" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2007-06-19. Retrieved 2009-04-24.

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