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1982 studio album by Yōsui Inoue

Lion & Pelican
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Released December 5, 1982
Recorded KRS Studio, Sound Inn Studio, Take One Studio, Banana Studio
Genre Adult contemporary
Label For Life
Producer Yōsui Inoue
  1. “Riverside Hotel”
    Released: July 5, 1982
  2. “Tomadou Pelican”
    Released: October 21, 1982
  3. “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[edit]

All lyrics written and composed by Yosui Inoue

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

Personnel[edit]

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[edit]

  • 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[edit]

Album[edit]

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

Singles[edit]

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[edit]

Country Date Label Format Catalog number Notes
Japan December 5, 1982 For Life Records LP 28K45
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

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