Okaerinasai (album)

Okaerinasai
Okaerinasai
Studio album by Miyuki Nakajima
Released	November 21, 1979
Recorded	Epicurus and Take One Studios, Tokyo, Japan
Genre	Folk, kayōkyoku
Length	44:00
Label	AARD-VARK/Canyon, Yamaha Music Communications
Producer	Miyuki Nakajima
Miyuki Nakajima chronology

Okaerinasai (おかえりなさい) is the sixth studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter Miyuki Nakajima, released in November 1979.

Okaerinasai peaked at number two on the Japanese Oricon LP chart, and became one of her most commercially successful albums, selling over 530,000 copies.

Background

The album contains self-cover versions of the songs Nakajima composed for other artists, including five top-40 hit singles—"Abayo" sung by Naoko Ken (topped the chart in 1976), "Shiawase Shibai" and "Oikakete Yokohama" recorded by Junko Sakurada (reached #3 and #11 on the chart from in 1977–78, respectively), "If I Could Take to the Sky" performed by Tokiko Kato (peaked at #14 in 1978), and "Ame..." by Rumiko Koyanagi (reached #25 in 1978).^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] It also features the song "Rouge" which was initially issued as the title track on Naomi Chiaki's 1977 album of the same name. It was later widely recognized around the Asian countries, because of the cover version interpreted by Faye Wong on her album Coming Home in 1992.

Track listing

All songs composed by Miyuki Nakajima, except the lyrics of "Yomaigoto" written by Yu Aku

Side one

No.	Title	Original performer	Length
1.	"Abayo" (あばよ) (arranged by Tsugutoshi Goto)	Naoko Ken	6:13
2.	"Kami" (髪) (arranged by Shun Fukui)	Graciela Susana	3:43
3.	"Sayonara o Tsutaete" (サヨナラを伝えて) (arranged by Shigeru Suzuki)	Naoko Ken	3:27
4.	"Shiawase Shibai" (しあわせ芝居) (arranged by Shigeru Suzuki)	Junko Sakurada	3:55
5.	"Ame…" (雨…; "Rain…") (arranged by Tsugutoshi Goto)	Rumiko Koyanagi	5:41

Side two

No.	Title	Original performer	Length
1.	"Kono Sora o Tobetara" (この空を飛べたら; "If I Could Take to the Sky") (arranged by Shigeru Suzuki)	Tokiko Kato	5:14
2.	"Yomaigoto" (世迷い言) (arranged by Osamu Tozuka)	Mimi Hiyoshi	3:33
3.	"Rouge" (ルージュ Rūju) (arranged by Osamu Tozuka)	Naomi Chiaki	4:33
4.	"Oikakete Yokohama" (追いかけてヨコハマ) (arranged by Tsugutoshi Goto)	Junko Sakurada	4:03
5.	"Tsuyogari wa Yose yo" (強がりはよせヨ) (arranged by Shun Fukui)	Naoko Ken	3:38

Personnel

Miyuki Nakajima - Lead vocal, acoustic guitar
Toshiaki Usui - Acoustic guitar
Hiromi Yasuda - Acoustic guitar
Nobuo Tsunetomi - Acoustic guitar
Yasushi Suehara - Acoustic guitar
Chūei Yoshikawa - Acoustic guitar
Shigeru Suzuki - Electric guitar
Kimio Mizutani - Electric guitar
Munemitsu Noguchi - Steel guitar
Tsugotoshi Gotō - Electric bass
Rei Ohara - Electric bass
Shigehiro Takahashi - Electric bass
Shigeaki Takebe - Electric bass
Kazumi Okayama - Drums
Eiji Shimamura - Drums
Yūichi Togashiki - Drums
Tatsuo Hayashi - Drums
Nobu Saitō - Percussion
Yasukazu Satō - Percussion
Jun Sato - Keyboards
Hiroshi Shibui - Keyboards
Makiko Tashiro - Keyboards
Hidetoshi Yamada - Keyboards
Jake H. Conception - Saxophone
Shin Kazuhara - Trumpet
Eiji Arai - Trombone
Sumio Okada - Trombone
Yasuo Hirauchi - Trombone
Masao Suzuki - Clarinet
First Music - Strings
Isao Kaneyama - Marimba
Fumihiko Kazama - Midget Accordion
Keiji Azami - Dulcimer
Osamu Tozuka - Chorus
Hiroshi Narumi - Chorus

Production

Designer: Hirofumi Arai
Disk Promoter: Yoshiki Ishikawa
Recording Director: Yoshio Okujima
Recording & Mixing Engineer: Yoshihiko Kaminari, Koji Sakakibara, Shoya Mizutani
Manager: Hiroshi Kojima
Assistant Promotion Manager: Kunio Kaneko
Disk Co-ordinator: Yuzo Watanabe
Costume Designer: Mihoko Kiyokawa
Art Director: Jin Tamura
Remixing & Mastering Engineer: Kinji Yoshino
General Producer: Genichi Kawakami
Special Thanks to Sailor Shinohara

Chart positions

Year	Country	Chart	Position	Sales
1979-80	Japan	Oricon Weekly LP Albums Chart (top 100)^[5]	2	533,000
1979-80	Japan	Oricon Weekly CT Albums Chart (top 100)	3	533,000

References

^ "Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) - Singles Chart Daijiten - Naoko Ken" (in Japanese). 2007-12-30. Archived from the original on 2007-10-16. Retrieved 2009-09-18.
^ "Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) - Singles Chart Daijiten - Junko Sakurada" (in Japanese). 2007-12-30. Retrieved 2009-09-18.
^ "Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) - Singles Chart Daijiten - Tokiko Kato" (in Japanese). 2007-12-30. Retrieved 2009-09-18.
^ "Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) - Singles Chart Daijiten - Rumiko Koyanagi" (in Japanese). 2007-12-30. Retrieved 2009-09-18.
^ "Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) - Albums Chart Daijiten - Miyuki Nakajima" (in Japanese). 2007-12-30. Archived from the original on June 19, 2007. Retrieved 2009-09-18.

[KEN-1] "Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) - Singles Chart Daijiten - Naoko Ken" (in Japanese). 2007-12-30. Archived from the original on 2007-10-16. Retrieved 2009-09-18.

[SAKURADA-2] "Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) - Singles Chart Daijiten - Junko Sakurada" (in Japanese). 2007-12-30. Retrieved 2009-09-18.

[KATO-3] "Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) - Singles Chart Daijiten - Tokiko Kato" (in Japanese). 2007-12-30. Retrieved 2009-09-18.

[KOYANAGI-4] "Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) - Singles Chart Daijiten - Rumiko Koyanagi" (in Japanese). 2007-12-30. Retrieved 2009-09-18.

[NakajimaLP-5] "Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) - Albums Chart Daijiten - Miyuki Nakajima" (in Japanese). 2007-12-30. Archived from the original on June 19, 2007. Retrieved 2009-09-18.

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