Misslim
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| Released | October 5, 1974 | |||
| Recorded | June 15 – August 16, 1974 | |||
| Studio | ALFA Studio A | |||
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| Length | 36:09 | |||
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| Producer | Kunihiko Murai, Seizō Shimokōbe | |||
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Misslim (ミスリム, Misurimu), is the second studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter Yumi Arai, released in October 1974.
Overview
[edit]The album title Misslim is derived from the word "Miss" and "Slim" after the slim appearance of Yumi Arai at that time. Its jacket cover was taken from Kajiko Kawazoe's house and the grand piano also belongs to her too.[1] The dress Arai was wearing was from Yves Saint Laurent. Before the album was released, the lead single "Yasashisa ni Tsutsumareta Nara" was released first, the song would get re-recorded as part of this album (as would its b-side, "Mahō no Kagami"). The single version was included in her album Yuming Brand.
This was the first time that Tatsuro Yamashita collaborated with Yumi Arai as a chorus (arranger) for five years until her album Olive in 1979. In 1989, the album version of the song "Yasashisa ni Tsutsumareta Nara" was used as the ending theme for the Japanese release of Kiki's Delivery Service (it would later get reinstated for the 2010 rerelease of the English dub; it wasn't dubbed over for the 1990 JAL/Streamline dub). A cover of "Jūnigatsu no Ame", by Chay, was used as the opening theme for the NTV drama series Pretty Proofreader. A cover of "Yasashisa ni Tsutsumareta Nara", by Maaya Sakamoto, was used as the opening for the original Tamayura OVA series in 2010.
Release history
[edit]Misslim was released in October 1974 by Toshiba-EMI/Express (now part of EMI Music Japan). The album was also distributed by Alfa Records for a period of time, as Alfa also held ancillary rights to this and the other LPs Arai released during the time Alfa was still a publishing company; those rights later reverted to EMI Japan in 1994-thereabouts, when EMI regained distribution of Alfa's catalogue except for the artists who were published by Alfa and were distributed by other labels (and later retained most of it, including Arai's first 4 LPs [whose rights she had managed to buy before Alfa was sold to Sony], while the rest, the catalogue from when Alfa was a recording label and the bulk of the catalogue from when it was a publishing company, went with Sony Music Entertainment, including session player Haruomi Hosono's future work both as a solo musician and as part of Yellow Magic Orchestra). On April 26, 2000, the recording was digitally remastered for re-release on CD by Bernie Grundman. Internet sales of the album began March 10, 2005.
Track listing
[edit]Lyrics and composition: Yumi Arai
Arrangements: Masataka Matsutoya
| No. | Title | English translation | Length |
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| 1. | "Umareta Machi de" (生まれた街で) | On the Street of My Home Town | 3:46 |
| 2. | "Hitomi o Tojite" (瞳を閉じて) | Message In a Bottle | 3:09 |
| 3. | "Yasashisa ni Tsutsumareta Nara" (やさしさに包まれたなら) | Embraced in Softness | 3:10 |
| 4. | "Umi o Miteita Gogo" (海を見ていた午後) | One Afternoon by the Sea | 4:04 |
| 5. | "Jūnigatsu no Ame" (12月の雨) | December Rain | 3:09 |
| Total length: | 17:18 | ||
| No. | Title | English translation | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Anata Dake no Mono" (あなただけのもの) | I'm All Yours | 4:03 |
| 2. | "Mahō no Kagami" (魔法の鏡) | Magical Mirror | 3:07 |
| 3. | "Tabun Anata wa Mukae ni Konai" (たぶんあなたはむかえに来ない) | You Left Me | 4:31 |
| 4. | "Watashi no Françoise" (私のフランソワーズ) | Oh My Françoise | 4:04 |
| 5. | "Tabidatsu Aki" (旅立つ秋) | Autumn Gone | 3:06 |
| Total length: | 18:51 | ||
Personnel
[edit]- Keyboards – Masataka Matsutoya
- Drum – Tatsuo Hayashi
- Bass guitar, cowbell – Haruomi Hosono
- Electric guitar – Shigeru Suzuki
- Percussion – Tatsuo Hayashi (A-1, A-2, A-4, B-1, B-3), Nobu Saito (A-1, B-1), Haruomi Hosono (A-1, A-5)
- Flat mandolin – Masataka Matsutoya
- Flute – Makio Shimizu (A-1)
- Acoustic guitar – Chuei Yoshikawa (A-2. A-3, A-5), Ryusuke Seto (B-5)
- 12-string guitar – Shigeru Suzuki (A-5), Ryusuke Seto (A-3, B-5)
- Pedal steel guitar – Hiroki Komazawa (A-3)
- Chorus – Yumi Arai (A-3), Sugar Babe (A-1, A-2, A-5, B-3), Minako Yoshida (A-1, B-1, B-3), Tatsuro Yamashita (B-1), Akiko Yano (B-1), Taeko Ohnuki (B-1)[2]
Chart positions
[edit]Weekly charts
[edit]| Year | Country | Chart | Position | Weeks | Sales |
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| 1974 | Japan | Oricon Weekly LP Albums Chart | 8 | 102 | 268,000[3] |
| 1976 | Oricon Weekly CT Albums Chart | 21 | 12 | 7,000[3] |
Year-end charts
[edit]| Year | Country | Chart | Position | Sales |
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| 1975 | Japan | Oricon Yearly Albums Chart (top 50) | 44 | 62,000[4] |
| 1976 | 14 | 156,000[5] |
References
[edit]- ^ "1974年10月5日、ユーミンのセカンド・アルバム『ミスリム』がリリース". 北中正和. MusicCalendar. October 25, 2017. Retrieved May 6, 2022.
- ^ "MISSLIM". SOUNDFINDER. Retrieved May 24, 2022.
- ^ a b "Yumi Matsutoya" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on February 14, 2012. Retrieved May 11, 2022.
- ^ "年間アルバムヒットチャート 1975年（昭和50年）" (in Japanese). Private Life エンタメデータ＆ランキング. Archived from the original on December 20, 2013. Retrieved May 11, 2022.
- ^ "年間アルバムヒットチャート 1976年（昭和51年）" (in Japanese). Private Life エンタメデータ＆ランキング. Archived from the original on December 19, 2013. Retrieved May 11, 2022.
