Tatsuro Yamashita "Sparkle" (Japanese Funk - 1982)

Killer Funk Groove 80's from Japan

Tatsuro Yamashita ‎– For You
Label: Air Records ‎– RAL-8801
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: Japan
Sortie: 1982

Track A1 - Sparkle
Arranged By, Composed By – 山下達郎
Backing Vocals – Minako Yoshida
Baritone Saxophone – Shunzo Sunahara
Bass – Kohki Itoh
Drums – Jun Aoyama
Electric Guitar, Electric Piano, Percussion, Backing Vocals – Tatsuro Yamashita
Lyrics By – 吉田美奈子
Piano, Synthesizer – Hiroyuki Namba
Tenor Saxophone – Takeru Muraoka
Trombone – Shigeharu Mukai, Tadanori Konakawa
Trumpet – Masahiro Kobayashi, Susumu Kazuhara

Art Direction – Hiroshi Takahara
Coordinator [Production Co-ordinator] – Nobumasa Uchida
Design – Hiroshi Takahara
Engineer [Assistant Engineer] – Akira Fukada, Masato Ohmori, Shigemi Watanabe
Engineer [Re-mix Engineer] – Tamotsu Yoshida
Engineer [Recording Engineer] – Tamotsu Yoshida, Toshiro Itoh
Illustration [Cover] – Eizin Suzuki
Management [Artist] – Kentaro Hattori, Masayuki Matsumoto
Management [Copyright] – Kenichi Nomura
Mastered By – Tohru Kotetsu
Photography By [Inner Photograph] – Nobuo Kubota
Producer – Tatsuro Yamashita
Producer [Associate Producer] – Ryuzo "Junior" Kosugi

Tatsuro Yamashita
Profil: Singer-songwriter and producer, born 4 February 1953. Husband of Mariya Takeuchi. Heavily influenced by American jazz, soul & big band music, his first album, Add Some Music To Your Day, containing cover versions of songs by the Beach Boys and other golden age American songs, is now extremely rare & sought-after. His major debut came in 1976 with Circus Town, which was recorded in New York and Los Angeles, the former with the participation of famed conductor & arranger Charlie Calello.

His popular breakthrough came in 1980 with the release of Ride On Time, whose title track peaked at #3 on the Oricon singles chart and was used in a TV ad for Maxell audio cassettes featuring Yamashita. He is probably best-known for composing & performing his 1983 song "Christmas Eve", which appeared on his album Melodies that year and was notably covered by Pentatonix for the Japanese release of their That's Christmas To Me album.

He is also famous as record collector and the DJ of Japan's most famous oldies radio show called "Tatsuro Yamashita's Sunday Songbook" (TOKYO FM). This program started on October 3, 1992 as a Saturday Songbook, but changed to the Sunday Songbook on April 3, 1994. And it is a long run program that continues to date.

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