{"id":370357,"date":"2018-04-27T01:15:04","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T01:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/370357\/celebrity\/"},"modified":"2018-04-27T01:15:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T01:15:04","slug":"tatsuro-yamashita-sparkle-japanese-funk-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/370357\/celebrity\/","title":{"rendered":"Tatsuro Yamashita &quot;Sparkle&quot; (Japanese Funk &#8211; 1982)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7ijMDQgvW0o?modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nKiller Funk Groove 80&#8217;s from Japan<\/p>\n<p>Tatsuro Yamashita \u200e\u2013 For You<br \/>\nLabel: Air Records \u200e\u2013 RAL-8801<br \/>\nFormat: Vinyl, LP, Album<br \/>\nCountry: Japan<br \/>\nSortie: 1982<\/p>\n<p>Track A1 &#8211; Sparkle<br \/>\nArranged By, Composed By \u2013 \u5c71\u4e0b\u9054\u90ce<br \/>\nBacking Vocals \u2013 Minako Yoshida<br \/>\nBaritone Saxophone \u2013 Shunzo Sunahara<br \/>\nBass \u2013 Kohki Itoh<br \/>\nDrums \u2013 Jun Aoyama<br \/>\nElectric Guitar, Electric Piano, Percussion, Backing Vocals \u2013 Tatsuro Yamashita<br \/>\nLyrics By \u2013 \u5409\u7530\u7f8e\u5948\u5b50<br \/>\nPiano, Synthesizer \u2013 Hiroyuki Namba<br \/>\nTenor Saxophone \u2013 Takeru Muraoka<br \/>\nTrombone \u2013 Shigeharu Mukai, Tadanori Konakawa<br \/>\nTrumpet \u2013 Masahiro Kobayashi, Susumu Kazuhara<\/p>\n<p>Art Direction \u2013 Hiroshi Takahara<br \/>\nCoordinator [Production Co-ordinator] \u2013 Nobumasa Uchida<br \/>\nDesign \u2013 Hiroshi Takahara<br \/>\nEngineer [Assistant Engineer] \u2013 Akira Fukada, Masato Ohmori, Shigemi Watanabe<br \/>\nEngineer [Re-mix Engineer] \u2013 Tamotsu Yoshida<br \/>\nEngineer [Recording Engineer] \u2013 Tamotsu Yoshida, Toshiro Itoh<br \/>\nIllustration [Cover] \u2013 Eizin Suzuki<br \/>\nManagement [Artist] \u2013 Kentaro Hattori, Masayuki Matsumoto<br \/>\nManagement [Copyright] \u2013 Kenichi Nomura<br \/>\nMastered By \u2013 Tohru Kotetsu<br \/>\nPhotography By [Inner Photograph] \u2013 Nobuo Kubota<br \/>\nProducer \u2013 Tatsuro Yamashita<br \/>\nProducer [Associate Producer] \u2013 Ryuzo &#8220;Junior&#8221; Kosugi<\/p>\n<p>Tatsuro Yamashita<br \/>\nProfil: Singer-songwriter and producer, born 4 February 1953. Husband of Mariya Takeuchi. Heavily influenced by American jazz, soul &#038; big band music, his first album, Add Some Music To Your Day, containing cover versions of songs by the Beach Boys and other golden age American songs, is now extremely rare &#038; sought-after. His major debut came in 1976 with Circus Town, which was recorded in New York and Los Angeles, the former with the participation of famed conductor &#038; arranger Charlie Calello.<\/p>\n<p>His popular breakthrough came in 1980 with the release of Ride On Time, whose title track peaked at #3 on the Oricon singles chart and was used in a TV ad for Maxell audio cassettes featuring Yamashita. He is probably best-known for composing &#038; performing his 1983 song &#8220;Christmas Eve&#8221;, which appeared on his album Melodies that year and was notably covered by Pentatonix for the Japanese release of their That&#8217;s Christmas To Me album.<\/p>\n<p>He is also famous as record collector and the DJ of Japan&#8217;s most famous oldies radio show called &#8220;Tatsuro Yamashita&#8217;s Sunday Songbook&#8221; (TOKYO FM). This program started on October 3, 1992 as a Saturday Songbook, but changed to the Sunday Songbook on April 3, 1994. And it is a long run program that continues to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Killer Funk Groove 80&#8217;s from Japan Tatsuro Yamashita \u200e\u2013 For You Label: Air Records \u200e\u2013 RAL-8801 Format: V<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":370358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[21045],"tags":[343448,343449,343451,343453,21047,21046,38778,343445,343444,343450,343452,343446,170,343443,343447,343454,27939,22,22904,23830],"class_list":{"0":"post-370357","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity","8":"tag-asian-funk-groove-80","9":"tag-asiat-funk","10":"tag-best-city-pop-80s","11":"tag-best-japan-groove-80s","12":"tag-celebrities","13":"tag-celebrity","14":"tag-funk","15":"tag-funk-japon-80","16":"tag-funk-japonaise-80","17":"tag-funkissman","18":"tag-greatest-japanese-funk","19":"tag-japan-funk-groove-80","20":"tag-japanese","21":"tag-japanese-funk-80s","22":"tag-nippon-funk-80","23":"tag-quotsparklequot","24":"tag-tatsuro","25":"tag-vlog","26":"tag-yamashita","27":"tag-23830"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}