Goodbye Girl (Miyuki Nakajima album)

Goodbye Girl (グッバイ ガール, Gubbai Gāru) is the 16th studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter Miyuki Nakajima, released in November 1988.

Goodbye Girl
Studio album by
ReleasedNovember 16, 1988
RecordedSound Valley, Z'd, Sound Inn, Vincent and Epicurus Studios
GenreFolk rock
Length44:54
LabelPony Canyon/AARD-VARK
ProducerIchizo Seo, Miyuki Nakajima
Miyuki Nakajima chronology
Nakajima Miyuki
(1988)
Goodbye Girl
(1988)
Kaikinetsu
(1989)

The album includes "Namida", her own rendition of a song Nakajima originally wrote for Kiyoshi Maekawa. The song released as a single before the album came out was the first material which was co-produced by Ichizo Seo, who has been her long-term collaborator since then.

The album debuted at number one on the Oricon Chart.

Track listing

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  1. "Nousagi no You ni (野ウサギのように)" – 4:22
  2. "Fura Fura (ふらふら)" – 4:40
  3. "Megami" – 4:53
  4. "Ki ni Shinaide (気にしないで)" – 4:59
  5. "December (十二月, Jūnigatsu)" – 3:59
  6. "Tatoe Sekai ga Sora kara Ochitemo (たとえ世界が空から落ちても)" – 4:10
  7. "Ai Yorimo (愛よりも)" – 6:10
  8. "Namida () -Made in Tears" – 5:08
  9. "Fubuki (吹雪)" – 6:33

Personnel

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  • Miyuki Nakajima – Lead and backing vocals
  • Ichizo Seo – keyboards, backing vocals, computer programming
  • Tsuyoshi Kon – electric guitar
  • Hideo Saitō – electric guitar
  • Chuei Yoshikawa – acoustic guitar
  • Chiharu Mikuzuki – bass guitar
  • Kenji Takamizu – bass guitar
  • Yasuo Tomikura – bass guitar
  • Nobuo Kurata – keyboards
  • Yasuharu Nakanishi – keyboards
  • Ken Shima – keyboards
  • Elton Nagata – keyboards
  • Tatsuhiko Mori – computer programming
  • Keishi Urata – computer programming
  • Nobuhiko Nakayama- computer programming
  • Toshihiko Furumura – tenor sax
  • Kazuyo Sugimoto – backing vocals
  • Jun Aoyama – drums
  • Hideo Yamaki – drums
  • Toru Hasebe – drums
  • Fairlight CMI, TR-707 – programming drums
  • Tomota Group – strings
  • Masatsugu Shinozaki – electric violin

Chart positions

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Chart (1988) Peak
position
Sales RIAJ Certification
Japan Oricon Weekly Albums Chart (Top 100)[1] 1 137,000+ Gold

References

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  1. ^ "Yamachan Land (Japanese Chart Archives) – Albums Chart Daijiten – Miyuki Nakajima" (in Japanese). Original Confidence. Archived from the original on June 19, 2007. Retrieved August 24, 2008.