Short Stories (Miyuki Nakajima album)

Short Stories (短篇集, Tanpenshū) is the 28th studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter Miyuki Nakajima, 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.

Short Stories (Tanpenshū)
Studio album by Miyuki Nakajima
Released	15 November 2000
Recorded	CelIo Studios(Los Angeles) Epicurus Studios(Tokyo) PARADISE studio KOMAZAWA(Tokyo) Bunkamura Studio(Tokyo)
Genre	Folk rock
Length	54:43
Label	Yamaha Music Communications
Producer	Ichizo Seo, Miyuki Nakajima
Miyuki Nakajima chronology
Sun: Wings (1999) Short Stories (Tanpenshū) (2000) Lullaby for the Soul (Kokoromoriuta) (2001)

Track listing

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

1. "Earthly Stars (Unsung Heroes) (地上の星, Chijou no Hoshi)" – 5:11
2. "Homecoming (帰省, Kisei)" – 5:17
3. "I'm Walking Along the Street of Dreams (夢の通り道を僕は歩いている, Yume no Tōrimichi wo Boku wa Aruiteiru)" – 4:35
4. "Regret (後悔, Koukai)" – 6:15
5. "Merry-Go-Round" – 5:54
6. "The Angel's Stairway (天使の階段, Tenshi no Kaidan)" – 4:24
7. "Passing Summer (過ぎゆく夏, Sugiyuku Natsu)" – 3:43
8. "Marriage (結婚, Kekkon)" – 2:32
9. "Powdery Snow (粉雪は忘れ薬, Konayuki wa Wasuregusuri)" – 6:32
10. "Tell Me, Sister" – 5:23
11. "Headlight, Taillight (ヘッドライト・テールライト, Heddoraito Teruraito)" – 4:57

Personnel

Band

• Miyuki Nakajima – vocals
• Ichizo Seo – keyboards, strings arrangement & conduct
• Hideo Yamaki – tomtom, cymbals
• Russ Kunkel – drums
• Vinnie Colaiuta – drums
• Gregg Bissonette – drums
• Neil Stubenhaus – bass guitar
• Hideki Matsubara – bass guitar
• Leland Sklar – bass guitar
• Michael Thompson – 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 – 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 – strings arrangement, conducting
• Suzie Katayama – conducting
• Masatsugu Shinozaki – violin, concertmaster
• Joel Derouin – violin, concertmaster
• Bruce Dukov – violin
• 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 – 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
• 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
• 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 whistle, recorder

Chart positions

Album

Year	Chart	Position	Sales
2000–03	Japanese Oricon Weekly Albums Chart	7[1]	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[2]	1.1 million+[3]
			Oricon Weekly Singles Chart (top 200)		202[3]

References

1. "Yamachan Land (Japanese Chart Archives) – Albums Chart Daijiten – Miyuki Nakajima" (in Japanese). Original Confidence. Archived from the original on 19 June 2007. Retrieved 24 August 2008.
2. ""Nada Sousou" climbed the chart again". oricon.co.jp (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved 6 November 2008.
3. "Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) – Singles Chart Daijiten – Miyuki Nakajima" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 19 June 2007. Retrieved 6 November 2008.