is the 28th studio album

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 by Japanese

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 singer-songwriter

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 Miyuki Nakajima

Miyuki Nakajima

is a Japanese vocalist, guitarist, lyricist, composer and radio personality. As a principal Japanese female veteran singer-songwriter she is often compared to Yumi Matsutoya, she has released 37 studio albums, 40 singles, 2 live albums and multiple compilations to date, and whose sales have been...

, released in November 2000. The album features commercially successful double A-Side single "Earthly Stars (Unsung Heroes)"/"Headlight, Taillight", which became the number-one hit in later years and sold more than a million copies in Japan alone.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Miyuki Nakajima, arranged by Ichizo Seo (except "Powdery Snow" co-arranged by David Campbell

David Campbell (American arranger/composer)

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1. "" – 5:11
2. "" – 5:17
3. "" – 4:35
4. "" – 6:15
5. "Merry-Go-Round" – 5:54
6. "" – 4:24
7. "" – 3:43
8. "" – 2:32
9. "" – 6:32
10. "Tell Me, Sister" – 5:23
11. "" – 4:57

Band

• Miyuki Nakajima - vocals
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• Ichizo Seo - keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
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  , strings arrangement & conduct
• Hideo Yamaki - tomtom
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  , cymbal
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• Russ Kunkel
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   - drums
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• Vinnie Colaiuta
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   - drums
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• Gregg Bissonette
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   - drums
• Neil Stubenhaus
  Neil Stubenhaus
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   - bass guitar
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• Hideki Matsubara - bass guitar
• Leland Sklar
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   - bass guitar
• Michael Thompson
  Michael Thompson (guitarist)
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   - electric and acoustic guitar
• Masayoshi Furukawa - electric guitar, 12-strings acoustic guitar
• Elton Nagata - keyboards, acoustic and electric piano
• Shingo Kobayashi - keyboards, acoustic piano
• Jon Gilutin - acoustic and electric piano, hammond B-3, keyboards
• Yasuharu Nakanishi - keyboards
• Keishi Urata- computer programming
• Seiichi Takubo - computer programming
• Yousuke Sugimoto - computer programming
• Brandon Fields
  Brandon Fields
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   - tenor sax

Backing vocalists

• Fumikazu Miyashita - backing and harmony vocals
• Yasuhiro Kido - backing vocals
• Katsumi Maeda - backing vocals
• Toshiro Kirigaya - backing vocals
• Etsuro Wakakonai - backing vocals
• Julia Waters - backing vocals
• Maxine Waters - backing vocals
• Carmen Twillie - backing vocals
• Monalisa Young - backing vocals
• Clydene Jackson Edwards - backing vocals
• Oren Waters - backing vocals
• Luther Waters - backing vocals
• Johnny Britt - backing vocals
• Joseph Powell - backing vocals
• Terry Young - backing vocals
• Rick Logan - backing vocals
• Randy Crenshaw - backing vocals
• John Batdorf - backing vocals

Additional personnel

• David Campbell
  David Campbell (American arranger/composer)
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   - strings arrangement, conducting
• Suzie Katayama - conducting
• Masatsugu Shinozaki - violin, concertmaster
• Joel Derouin - violin, concertmaster
• Bruce Dukov - violin
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• Mario De Leon - violin
• Armen Garabedian - violin
• Berj Garabedian - violin
• Endre Grant - violin
• Peter Kent - violin
• Rachel Purkin - violin
• Michele Richards - violin
• John Wittenberg - violin
• Charlie Bisharat
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   - violin
• Brian Leonard - violin
• Robert Peterson - violin
• Haim Shtrim - violin
• Kiyo Kido - violin
• Jun Yamamoto - violin
• Yumiko Hirose - violin
• Osamu Inou - violin
• Kei Shinozaki - violin
• Yu Sugino - violin
• Naoyuki Takahashi - violin
• Kathrine Cash - violin
• Tsunehiro Shigyo - violin
• Keiko Nakamura - violin
• Machia Saito - violin
• Crusher Kimura - violin
• Takashi Kato - violin
• Masayoshi Fujiyama - violin
• Hitoshi Imano - violin
• Yukikane Murata - violin
• Jun Takeuchi - violin
• Akihiko Suzuki - violin
• Takayuki Oshigane - violin
• Akiko Kato - violin
• Hiroki Muto - violin
• Masako Mabuchi - viola
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• Yuji Yamada - viola
• Gentaro Sakaguchi - viola
• Denyse Buffum - viola
• Matthew Funes - viola
• Janet Lakatos - viola
• Karie Prescott - viola
• Joshin Toyama - viola
• Gentaro Sakaguchi - viola
• Kaori Naruse - viola
• Masaharu Karita - cello
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• Tomoya Kikuchi - cello
• Hiroki Kashiwagi - cello
• Yoshihiko Maeda - cello
• Masahiro Tanaka - cello
• Susumu Miyake - cello
• Steve Richards - cello
• Daniel Smith - cello
• Rudolph Stein - cello
• Paula Hoochatter - cello
• Don Markese - tin whitsle, recorder
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Album

Year	Chart	Position	Sales
2000-03	Japanese Oricon Weekly Albums Chart	7	188,000+

Single

Year	Country	Song(s)	Chart	Position	Weeks	Sales
2000-03	Japan	"Earthly Stars (Unsung Heroes)" "Headlight, Taillight"	Oricon Weekly Singles Chart (top 100)	1	183	1.1 million+
			Oricon Weekly Singles Chart (top 200)		202