Lion & Pelican is the tenth studio album recorded and produced by 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. 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 "" "Chinese Food" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" ""
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 YearCountryChartPositionSales1982-83JapanOricon Weekly LP Albums Chart (top 100)13158,000+Oricon Weekly CT Albums Chart (top 100)22
Singles SingleB-SideChartPositionSales”Riverside Hotel""Ore no Jimusho wa Camp"Japanese Oricon Weekly (top 100)11214,000"Tomadou Pelican""Music High"6920,000"Aisaretebakari Iru to" [Single version]"Senaka Made Yonjū-go Fun"3541,000
Release history Country Date Label Format Catalog number NotesJapanDecember 5, 1982For Life Records LP 28K45 Audio cassette 28C29April 21, 1985CD 35KD8February 21, 1990FLCF-29033May 30, 2001FLCF-3853Original recording digitally remasteredMarch 25, 2009For Life Music Entertainment/BMG SHM-CD FLCF-5006 2001 Digital remaster
See also 1982 in Japanese music
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