Goodbye Girl (Miyuki Nakajima album)
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{{Infobox album
| name = Goodbye Girl
| type = Album
| artist = Miyuki Nakajima
| cover = GBGcover.jpg
| alt =
| released = November 16, 1988
| recorded = Sound Valley, Z'd, Sound Inn, Vincent and Epicurus Studios
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Folk rock
| length = 44:54
| label = Pony Canyon/AARD-VARK
| producer = Ichizo Seo, Miyuki Nakajima
| prev_title = Nakajima Miyuki
| prev_year = 1988
| next_title = Kaikinetsu
| next_year = 1989
}}
{{nihongo|Goodbye Girl|グッバイ ガール|Gubbai Gāru}} is the 16th studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter Miyuki Nakajima, released in November 1988.
The album includes "Namida", her own rendition of a song Nakajima originally wrote for Kiyoshi Maekawa. The song released as a single before the album came out was the first material which was co-produced by Ichizo Seo, who has been her long-term collaborator since then.
The album debuted at number one on the Oricon Chart.
Track listing
- All songs written by Miyuki Nakajima.
- "{{nihongo|Nousagi no You ni|野ウサギのように}}" – 4:22
- "{{nihongo|Fura Fura|ふらふら}}" – 4:40
- "Megami" – 4:53
- "{{nihongo|Ki ni Shinaide|気にしないで}}" – 4:59
- "{{nihongo|December|十二月|Jūnigatsu}}" – 3:59
- "{{nihongo|Tatoe Sekai ga Sora kara Ochitemo|たとえ世界が空から落ちても}}" – 4:10
- "{{nihongo|Ai Yorimo|愛よりも}}" – 6:10
- "{{nihongo|Namida|涙}} -Made in Tears" – 5:08
- "{{nihongo|Fubuki|吹雪}}" – 6:33
Personnel
- Miyuki Nakajima – Lead and backing vocals
- Ichizo Seo – keyboards, backing vocals, computer programming
- Tsuyoshi Kon – electric guitar
- Hideo Saitō – electric guitar
- Chuei Yoshikawa – acoustic guitar
- Chiharu Mikuzuki – bass guitar
- Kenji Takamizu – bass guitar
- Yasuo Tomikura – bass guitar
- Nobuo Kurata – keyboards
- Yasuharu Nakanishi – keyboards
- Ken Shima – keyboards
- Elton Nagata – keyboards
- Tatsuhiko Mori – computer programming
- Keishi Urata – computer programming
- Nobuhiko Nakayama- computer programming
- Toshihiko Furumura – tenor sax
- Kazuyo Sugimoto – backing vocals
- Jun Aoyama – drums
- Hideo Yamaki – drums
- Toru Hasebe – drums
- Fairlight CMI, TR-707 – programming drums
- Tomota Group – strings
- Masatsugu Shinozaki – electric violin
Chart positions
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!Chart (1988) !Peak !Sales !RIAJ Certification |
| Japan Oricon Weekly Albums Chart (Top 100){{cite web|url=http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~yamag/album/al_nakajima.html |title=Yamachan Land (Japanese Chart Archives) – Albums Chart Daijiten – Miyuki Nakajima |publisher=Original Confidence |language=Japanese |accessdate=August 24, 2008 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20070619175006/http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~yamag/album/al_nakajima.html |archivedate=June 19, 2007 }}
|align="center|1 |137,000+ |Gold |