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Among them, Yamashita recorded "Misty Mauve" for Artisan, although it was not released until 2002 on his Rarities album. [3] The closing track of Artisan is a cover version of The Young Rascals' 1967 U.S. number-one hit. [4] It has been also the ending theme for Sunday Songbook, a weekly radio program that Yamashita has hosted since 1992.
Rarities is the compilation album by a Japanese singer-songwriter Tatsuro Yamashita, released in October 2002. The album is mainly composed of the songs which had initially appeared on B-sides of his previous singles and not included on any albums.
As a solo artist, Yamashita has released 13 original studio albums, five cover albums, two live albums, multiple compilations, and over 50 singles. He is the most commercially successful Japanese male solo recording artist in the history of the Japanese album chart, selling approximately 9 million albums in total.
The music on the album has been described as city pop, a slick commercial sound of music from late 1970s and early 1980s Japan. [2] Although the genre is often described as being about Japan embracing an affluent consumerist lifestyle, Mark "Frosty" McNeill stated that the style is "more of a vibe classification than a collective movement."
However Tatsuro Yamashita was told that one of his songs in the Go Ahead! album "Bomber" was a hit song in a disco in Osaka. Therefore, in 1979, a promotional single was released under the title of "Bomber".
In addition, a live version of the theme song "Bokura no Natsu no Yume" from the animated movie "Summer Wars" was included in the single. [ 3 ] The artwork of the first limited edition features the main visual of the movie, and the regular edition features "Tatsuro-kun" (drawn by Miki Tori ) riding a motorcycle.
In 1980, the single Ride on Time became a hit, as did the album of the same name.As a result, he would frequently hold live concerts throughout 1981. It was difficult to plan for the next album, but his band continued to improve as they performed live.
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