Handsome Boy (album)
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{{Infobox album
| name = Handsome Boy
| type = Album
| artist = Yōsui Inoue
| cover = handsome_boy_inoue.jpg
| alt =
| released = October 21, 1990
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Folk rock
| length = 47:31
| label = For Life
| producer = Yōsui Inoue
| prev_title = Negative
| prev_year = 1987
| next_title = The Night Without a Guide
| next_year = 1992
}}
Handsome Boy is the 14th studio album by a Japanese singer-songwriter Yōsui Inoue, released in 1990.
The album contains the songs that were already known through the commercial tie-in with television programs or advertisements. Like "Gallery" which was recorded by Yoko Oginome and released as a single in June 1990, some of the materials were previously interpreted by other performers.{{cite web|url=http://www.oginome.com/web/02_disco/index_02.html 荻野目洋子 Official Website|title= single / discography|work=oginome.com|language=Japanese|accessdate=June 15, 2009}}
Prior to the album, three songs were released as a single; "Yume Ne Mi", "Saigo no News", and "Shounen Jidai" which was co-written by Natsumi Hirai and has been one of his most well-known songs throughout Inoue's longtime career. It was initially featured on the theme song for an award-winning film adaptation of Fujiko Fujio (A)'s manga Childhood Days (based on Hyouzou Kashiwabara's novel Nagai Michi).{{cite web|url=http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=151158 映画 少年時代 – |title= allcinema (Movie & DVD Database) – the motion picture Childhood Days |language=Japanese|accessdate=May 11, 2009}} The song was gradually recognized through the TV ad of Sony Handycam which was aired during the following year. "Shounen Jidai" became his biggest hit single, peaking at No. 4 on the Japanese chart and selling more than 850,000 copies in total. In 1997, 3-inch CD single of the song was certified quadruple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of Japan, for shipments of over 1 million copies.
Led by the success of a single "Shounen Jidai", the album Handsome Boy itself also gained favorable reaction, peaking at No. 2 on the Japanese Oricon chart and entering top-100 for over 10 months with sales of about 640,000 copies.
Track listing
All songs written and composed by Yōsui Inoue, unless otherwise noted
- "Pi Po Pa" – 3:55
- "{{nihongo|Emily|エミリー|Emirī}}" – 3:35
- "{{nihongo|Rival|ライバル|Raibaru}}" (Inoue, Yūji Kawashima) – 3:51
- "{{nihongo|Saigo no News|最後のニュース}}" – 3:55
- "{{nihongo|Gallery|ギャラリー|Gyararī}}" – 5:07
- "{{nihongo|Shounen Jidai|少年時代}}" (Inoue, Natsumi Hirai) – 3:21
- "{{nihongo|Fiction|フィクション|Fikushon}}" – 3:21
- "Tokyo" (Inoue, Hirai) – 3:56
- "{{nihongo|Yume Ne Mi|夢寝見}}" – 5:03
- "{{nihongo|Shizen ni Kazararete|自然に飾られて}}" (Inoue, Hirai) – 6:07
- "{{nihongo|Choujikan no Hikou|長時間の飛行}}" (Inoue, Kawashima) – 4:22
Personnel
- Yōsui Inoue – Vocals, acoustic guitar
- Hiromi Yasuda – Acoustic guitar
- Kenji Ōmura – Electric guitar
- Tomotaka Imamichi – Electric guitar
- Jun Sumida – Electric guitar
- Masaki Matsubara – Electric guitar
- Masayoshi Furukawa – Gut-string guitar
- Hirokazu Ogura – Gut-string guitar
- Masami Satou – Gut-string guitar
- Tsugutoshi Goto – Bass guitar
- Motofumi Hagiwara – Bass guitar
- Chiharu Mikuzuki – Bass guitar
- Vagabond Suzuki – Bass guitar
- Haruomi Hosono – Bass guitar, synthesizer, percussion
- Tadashi Nanba – Synthesizer
- Akira Inoue – Synthesizer
- Miharu Koshi – Synthesizer
- Akira Senju – Synthesizer
- Shinji Kawahara – Piano
- Takao Kisugi – Piano
- Yasuharu Nakanishi – Piano
- Yūji Kawashima – Synthesizer, computer programming
- Takeshi Fujii – Computer programming
- Hiroaki Sugawara – Computer programming
- Nobuo Tsuji – Computer programming
- Ma*to – Computer programming
- Yasuo Kimoto – Computer programming
- Motoya Hamaguchi – Percussion
- Eiji Narushima – Percussion
- Masato Hashida – Percussion
- Makoto Kimura – Percussion
- Hinotamao – Percussion
- Hideo Yamaki – Drums
- Eiji Shimamura – Drums
- Yutaka Odawara – Drums
- Junichi Kazezaki – Brasswinds
- Shin Kazuhara – Brasswinds
- Kenichirou Hayashi – Brasswinds
- Masahiro Kobayashi – Brasswinds
- Kenji Nakazawa – Brasswinds
- Kenji Nishiyama – Brasswinds
- Taro Kiyooka – Brasswinds
- Sumiyo Okada – Brasswinds
- Watanabe Katsu – Brasswinds
- Teiko Haruna – Woodwinds
- Mitsuru Souma – Woodwinds
- Ryūji Hoshikawa – Woodwinds
- Tadashi Togame – Woodwinds
- Masakazu Ishibashi – Woodwinds
- Toshitsugu Inoue – Woodwinds
- Jake H. Conception – Woodwinds
- Hirofumi Kinjou – Woodwinds
- Masaki Takano – Woodwinds
- Hiroyuki Ichihara – Woodwinds
- Hidefumi Toki – Woodwinds
- Aska Kaneko Strings – Strings
- Akiko Yano – Chorus
- Minako Yoshida – Chorus
- Seri Ishikawa – Chorus
Chart positions
=Album=
| class="wikitable"
!Chart !Position !Sales |
| Japanese Oricon Weekly Albums Chart (top 100)
|639,000+ |
=Singles=
| class="wikitable" border="1" |
| Single
!B-Side !Chart !Position !Sales |
|---|
| "Yume Ne Mi"
|"Beni Suberi" |rowspan=3|Japanese Oricon Weekly (top 100){{cite web|url=http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~yamag/single/yousui.html|title=Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) – Singles Chart Daijiten – Yosui Inoue|language=Japanese|accessdate=April 24, 2009|archive-url=https://archive.today/20071016164300/http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~yamag/single/yousui.html|archive-date=October 16, 2007|url-status=dead}} |align="center"|37 |align="center"|23,000 |
| "Saigo no News"
|"Back Side" |align="center"|57 |align="center"|16,000 |
| "Shounen Jidai"
|"Ara-Washi no Uta" |align="center"|4 |align="center"|853,000 |
Release history
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! Country ! Date ! Label ! Format ! Catalog number ! Notes |
| rowspan="4"|Japan
|rowspan="2"|October 20, 1990 |rowspan="3"|For Life Records |CD |FLCF-30081 | |
| Audio cassette
|FLTF-26021 | |
| May 30, 2001
|CD |FLCF-3858 |rowspan="2"|Original recording digital remastered |
| March 25, 2009
|For Life Music Entertainment/BMG | SHM-CD | FLCF-5011 |