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Each Side Of Screen
is the eighth studio album by Japanese idol duo Wink (duo), Wink, released by Polystar on April 25, 1992. It features the singles "Tsuioku no Heroine" and "Matenrō Museum". Also included in the album are Japanese-language covers of Hot Chocolate (band), Hot Chocolate's "Brother Louie (Hot Chocolate song), Brother Louie", Meisler's "We Can Make It", Billie Hughes' "Love Is an Art", Roxanne's "Burning Through the Night", and KC and the Sunshine Band's "That's the Way (I Like It)". The album peaked at No. 11 on Oricon's albums chart and sold over 58,000 copies. Track listing All lyrics are written by Neko Oikawa, except where indicated; all music is arranged by Satoshi Kadokura, except where indicated. Charts Footnotes References External links * * * {{Authority control 1992 albums Wink (duo) albums 1990s Japanese-language albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wink (duo)
was a Japanese idol duo in the late 1980s and early-to-mid-1990s composed of and . They released their first single on April 27, 1988, and their final release was on March 31, 1996. Many of their singles topped the Oricon charts in Japan, including their biggest hit, "Samishii Nettaigyo". History In 1987, Sachiko Suzuki and Shoko Aida both entered a beauty contest given by the magazine ''Up to Boy''. Suzuki won 7th place and Aida won 9th place. The following year, Suzuki and Aida were chosen to form the duo. On April 27, 1988, they debuted with the single "Sugar Baby Love", a cover of an English song by The Rubettes. The single topped at #20 on the Oricon Chart, and was chosen as the theme song of the Fuji Television, Fuji TV drama ''Netsuppoi no!'' (熱っぽいの!, ''I'm Feverish!''), which starred Yoko Minamino and Shizuka Kudo. Their next single, "Amaryllis (song), Amaryllis" (アマリリス, released September 7, 1988) charted at only #30 on the Oricon chart. Howeve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oricon
, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics Statistics (from German language, German: ', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a s ... and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music. It started as , which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc. was originally set up as a subsidiary of Original Confidence and took over the latter's Oricon record charts in April 2002. The charts are compiled from data drawn from some 39,700 retail outlets () and provide sales rankings of music CDs, DVDs, electronic games, and other entertainment products based on weekly tabulations. Results are announced every Tuesday and published in ''Oricon Style'' by subsidiary Oricon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1992 Albums
Year 199 ( CXCIX) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was sometimes known as year 952 ''Ab urbe condita''. The denomination 199 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Mesopotamia is partitioned into two Roman provinces divided by the Euphrates, Mesopotamia and Osroene. * Emperor Septimius Severus lays siege to the city-state Hatra in Central-Mesopotamia, but fails to capture the city despite breaching the walls. * Two new legions, I Parthica and III Parthica, are formed as a permanent garrison. China * Battle of Yijing: Chinese warlord Yuan Shao defeats Gongsun Zan. Korea * Geodeung succeeds Suro of Geumgwan Gaya, as king of the Korean kingdom of Gaya (traditional date). By topic Religion * Pope Zephyrinus succeeds Pope Victor I, as the 15th pope. Births Valerian Roman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Finch (musician)
Richard Raymond Finch (born January 23, 1954) is an American songwriter, producer, and arranger. He is best known as the co-founder, producer and former bass guitar player of KC and the Sunshine Band. Along with Harry Wayne Casey, he co-wrote the majority of the KC and the Sunshine Band music catalog, to include five No. 1 ''Billboard'' Hot 100 hits. Biography Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, the second youngest of five children, Finch moved with his family to Hialeah, Florida, when he was an infant. When Finch was five, his father died unexpectedly, leaving his mother to raise Finch and his four siblings alone. His favorite group growing up was The Beatles. His musical tastes grew to include soul and country music. In his early teens, Finch got his first electric bass guitar and began to learn country music bass lines. He joined several country bands before joining the band Ball & Chain. Finch became interested in audio recording techniques while working at an Opa Locka, Flor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Wayne Casey
Harry Wayne Casey (born January 31, 1951), better known by his stage name KC, is an American record producer, musician, and songwriter. He is best known for his band, KC and the Sunshine Band, with co-founder Richard Finch (musician), Richard Finch. Casey has enjoyed success and recognition as a producer of several hits for other artists, and as a pioneer of the disco genre of the 1970s. Biography He grew up in Hialeah, Florida and graduated from Hialeah High School in September 1969. In January 1981, he survived a serious car crash when another car hit his vehicle head-on. He was left partially paralyzed for six months, and had to relearn how to walk, dance, and play the piano, but by the end of the year he was back in the recording studio. In the 1990s and 2000s he split his time between Miami Lakes, Florida and Durham, North Carolina. Discography *''Do It Good'' (1974) *''KC and the Sunshine Band (album), KC and the Sunshine Band'' (1975) *''The Sound of Sunshine'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roxanne Seeman
Roxanne Joy Seeman is an American songwriter and lyricist. She is best known for her songs by Billie Hughes, Philip Bailey, Phil Collins, Earth, Wind & Fire, Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler, The Sisters of Mercy, The Jacksons, Jacky Cheung, and in film and television. She has two Emmy nominations. Seeman is a writer and producer of the Japan Gold Disk Award International Single of the Year " Welcome To The Edge" by Billie Hughes. She has written songs for Chinese artists including Jacky Cheung, Yang Kun, Chen Linong, Super Vocal, Rainie Yang and productions by Zhang Yadong and Gao Xiaosong. Seeman is a producer of the Broadway shows To Kill a Mockingbird and The Waverly Gallery. Early life and education Seeman was born in New York to Jewish parents, Murray Seeman, a lawyer and real estate developer, and his wife, Lee (née Sachs). Her father was a scholar, World War II veteran, and former mayor of Great Neck Estates, where they lived. Thirty-three relatives of the S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Junko Hirotani
, better known by her birth name, , was a Japanese singer. Biography Junko Hirotani was born in Tokyo on 17 October 1956.Profile Kira-net.com. Accessed 21 July 2023. She won two awards at the Intercollege Original Song Contest as a university student. She had a brief singing career, where she released three albums: two of them and ''Blendy'', were released for Canyon Records, and her third album ''ENOUGH'' was her only one with . Afterwards, she later worked as a back chorus singer and composer for several singers, including |
Joey Carbone
Joey Carbone is a composer, music producer, arranger and keyboardist. After a period as a session musician, Carbone became a music director for television programmes, such as Star Search. Since the 1980s he has worked as a prolific producer for Japanese pop acts. Early life Carbone was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. When he was 16, Carbone was signed as a singer in a band with Richie Zito to Atlantic Records by one of Atlantic's founders, Jerry Wexler. Carbone took a summer job working at Atlantic, where he watched recording sessions by Aretha Franklin, the Rascals, Cream, and the Rolling Stones. Career overview Carbone moved to Los Angeles and became a keyboardist and vocalist for recording sessions and concerts. He played keyboards for Kiki Dee and Elton John, Rick James, the Righteous Brothers, Eric Carmen, Rod Stewart, Cher, Air Supply, Andy Gibb, Bette Midler and others. Carbone was the music director and theme composer for nine years for the television series ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Wilson (musician)
Anthony Wilson (born 8 October 1947) is a Trinidadian vocalist, bass guitarist and songwriter, best known for his time with soul and funk band Hot Chocolate. He co-wrote the Hot Chocolate hits " Love Is Life", " Emma", " Brother Louie" and "You Sexy Thing". Career Early career Wilson was born in Trinidad, and was involved with music from the age of 16. Some of his first bands were called The Flames, The Souvenirs, and The Corduroys. He was a member of the group Soul Brothers, who released three singles. Wilson worked as a songwriter in the 1960s, and wrote songs such as "Bet Yer Life I Do" (Herman's Hermits), "Heaven Is Here" ( Julie Felix), and "Think About Your Children" (Mary Hopkin). Wilson met Errol Brown in the late 1960s, as Brown lived in the flat opposite to him. They soon formed Hot Chocolate. Hot Chocolate He was a founding member of Hot Chocolate in 1968, and left the band in 1975. Wilson is credited with persuading Hot Chocolate's lead singer Errol Brown to comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Errol Brown
Errol Ainsworth Glenstor Brown MBE (born Lester Errol Brown; 12 November 1943 – 6 May 2015) was a British-Jamaican singer and songwriter, best known as the frontman of the soul and funk band Hot Chocolate. In 2004, Brown received the Ivor Novello Award for his Outstanding Contribution to British Music. Career Hot Chocolate His break in music came in 1969 when he recorded a version of John Lennon's "Give Peace a Chance" with a band called "Hot Chocolate Band". Unable to change the lyrics without Lennon's permission, he sent a copy to his record label, Apple, and the song was released with Lennon's approval. The Hot Chocolate albums were produced by Mickie Most and recorded at the Rak Records studio. Most of their songs were written by Brown and Hot Chocolate bassist Tony Wilson (before Wilson's departure in 1975), including " Love Is Life", "You Could Have Been a Lady", " Brother Louie", " Emma", and " You Sexy Thing". The band had at least one charting song on the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satoshi Kadokura
, is a Japanese composer, arranger, producer, keyboardist. He graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts. He was a producer of Wink, Noriyuki Makihara, Southern All Stars , also known by the abbreviations and SAS, are a Japanese rock band formed in Kanagawa in 1974. The band is composed of Keisuke Kuwata (lead vocals and guitars), Yuko Hara (vocals and keyboards), Kazuyuki Sekiguchi (bass), (drums) and (pe ... and many other artists. He also composes scores for video game series '' Metal Max''. Works Video games *'' Famicom Jump II: Saikyō no Shichinin'' (1991) *'' Metal Max'' (1991) *'' Metal Max 2'' (1993) *'' Metal Max Returns'' (1995) *'' Itadaki Street 3'' (2002) *'' Metal Saga'' (2005) *'' MeiQ: Labyrinth of Death'' (2015) *'' Metal Max Xeno'' (2018) References {{DEFAULTSORT:Kadokura, Satoshi 1959 births Japanese composers Japanese keyboardists Japanese male composers Japanese music arrangers Japanese record producers Japanese video game composer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neko Oikawa
is a Japanese lyricist who has written J-pop and anime theme songs over her career. Biography Neko Oikawa was born in Wakayama (city), Wakayama, Wakayama Prefecture, Wakayama. She made her songwriting debut in 1985 with Kanako Wada's "Passing Through", which won the Mitsubishi Minica Mascot Song Contest. During her time with Fuji Pacific Music, Oikawa wrote songs for numerous Japanese idols; most notably the duo Wink (duo), Wink. In 1989, her song "Samishii Nettaigyo" for Wink won the Grand Prix at the 31st Japan Record Awards and the 22nd All Japan Wired Broadcasting Awards. In 1994, her song "Tokyo" for Yashiki Takajin won the Yomiuri TV Best Award and Special Award at the All Japan Cable Broadcasting Awards. Oikawa's most well-known song outside Japan is "A Cruel Angel's Thesis", recorded by Yoko Takahashi for the 1995 anime series ''Neon Genesis Evangelion''. The song has been ranked by Joysound as the most popular song on karaoke. According to Oikawa, she receives between 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
