Product Description
Excellent 2CD compilation of 70s pop music centered around the group Happy End, and their subsequent offshoots, groups, solo projects etc. Happy End featured Haruomi Hosono and were one of the first groups to adapt Japanese language to folk rock music. Influenced by Buffalo Springfield they experimented with new sounds and styles, greatly expanding the range of Japanese rock music. Also featured is Tin Pan Alley also featuring Hosono, plus solo works by each member of Happy End, Eiichi Otaki, Shigeru Suzuki, Harry Hosono and the Yellow Magic Band, YMO, plus close assocaites Makoto Kubota and Yuyake Gakudan, Morio Agata, Minako Yoshida, Takako Onuki, Akiko Yano, Keiichi Suzuki & Moon Riders Hi-Fi Set. In summary, all the greatest Japanese pop singers and groups from 1970s over 33 tracks.
CD1
1. Happy End– Sky Blue No Kureyon
2. Eiichi Ohtaki– As For That
3. Happy End– Goodbye America, Goodbye Japan
4. Minako Yoshida– Winter of Doom
5. Yoshitaka Minami– Tune of A Sleepless Night
6. Honey Pie– Boku No Se
7. Taeko Ohnuki– Love Vision
8. T. Kosaka– Shirakeasmouze
9. Tin Pan Alley– The Girl With Soba
10. Hi-fi Set– Graduation Photograph
11. Hi-fi Set– Sky Restaurant
12. Haruomi Hosono– Hurricane Dorthy
13. Shigeru Suzuki– Sweetheart of 100 Watts
14. Hi-fi Set– Cool Rain
15. Seri Ishikawa– Monologue
16. Keiichi Suzuki– Boy Fireball
CD2
1. Haruomi Hosono– Butterfly San
2. Makoto Kubota– High Rhinoceros Uncle
3. Morio Agata– Cool Cooling
4. Akiko Yano– Riding In The Balloon
5. Shigeru Suzuki– 8 Line Poem
6. Masayoshi Takanaka– Ready To Fly
7. Ann Lewis (2)– Bugi-ugi Train of Love
8. Minako Yoshida– Shooting Star of Love
9. Minako Yoshida– Time
10. Seri Ishikawa– Midnight Love Call
11. Yoshitaka Minami– Date Line
12. Masataka Matsutoya– Already Two Degrees
13. Bread & Butter (4)– It Is The Time
14. Haruomi Hosono– Paraiso
15. Yellow Magic Orchestra– Technopolis
16. Frank Nagai*– Woman
17. Shinichi Mori– River Of Water
