is the fifth studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter Miyuki Nakajima, released in March 1979. The album is best known for the track "Ōkami ni Naritai", which has been one of fan favorites and later included on the compilation album ''Daiginjo'' released in 1996. It gained another public attention in the late 1990s, through the TV ad for Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co.'s energy drink which features the song. ''Shin-ai Naru Mono e'' was relatively successful upon its release, although there was no lead single before the album came out. It debuted at the number-three on the Oricon LP chart and climbed the summit of there in April 1979, providing her with the first number-one spot on the album chart.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Miyuki Nakajima

Side one

All tracks arranged by Takahiko Ishikawa (except "Taxi Driver" and "Neyuki" arranged by Shun Fukui) #"" - 4:38 #"" - 6:09 #"" - 3:01 #"" - 3:08 #"" - 6:23

Side two

All tracks arranged by Shun Fukui (except "Koishi no You ni" and "Ōkami ni Naritai" arranged by Takahiko Ishikawa) #"" - 2:34 #"" - 4:25 #"" - 3:36 #"" - 5:42 #"" - 6:48

Personnel

*Miyuki Nakajima - Lead vocal,

acoustic guitar An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. When a string is plucked its vibration is transmitted from the bridge, resonating throughout the top of the guitar. It is also transmitted to the side and back of the instrument, ...

*Takahiko Ishikawa - Acoustic guitar,

banjo The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and usually made of plastic, or occasionally animal skin. Early forms of the instrument were fashi ...

*Kiyoshi Sugimoto - Acoustic guitar *Shigeru Suzuki -

Electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar (however combinations of the two - a semi-acoustic guitar and an electric acoustic gui ...

*Ken Yajima - Electric guitar *Graham Thumb Picking Power - Electric bass *Hiro Tsunoda - Drums *Tatsuo Hayashi - Drums *Nobu Saito - Percussion *Pecker - Percussion *Jake H. Conception -

Saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed on a mouthpiece vibrates to pr ...

*Shunzo Sunahara -

Flute The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. However, unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is a reedless ...

*Makiko Tashiro - Keyboards * Kentaro Haneda - Keyboards

Production

*Recording director: Yoshio Okujima *Recording and mixing engineer: Yoshihiko Kaminari *Remixing and mixing engineer: Kinji Yoshino *Assistant engineer: Kouji Sakakibara *Promoter: Yoshiki Ishikawa *Manager: Hiroshi Kojima *Assistant promotional manager: Kunio Kaneko *Designer: Hirofumi Arai *Art director: Jin Tamura *Costume designer: Mihoko Kiyokawa *Producer: Miyuki Nakajima *General producer: Genichi Kawakami Recorded at Epicurus and Take One Studios, special thanks to Kochibi

Chart positions

Release history

References

{{Authority control Miyuki Nakajima albums 1979 albums Pony Canyon albums