Mariya Takeuchi – Variety = ヴァラエティ

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Label:	Moon Records (5) – MOON-28018
Format:	Vinyl, LP, Album, Gatefold
Country:	Japan
Released:	Apr 25, 1984
Genre:	Rock, Funk / Soul, Pop
Style:	Ballad, City Pop, Funk, Pop Rock, Soul

Tracklist

A1	もう一度	4:06
A2	プラスティック・ラブ	4:51
A3	本気でオンリーユー (Let's Get Married)	3:53
A4	One Night Stand	3:57
A5	Broken Heart	3:55
B1	アンフィシアターの夜	3:34
B2	とどかぬ想い	3:36
B3	マージービートで唄わせて	3:19
B4	水とあなたと太陽と	3:30
B5	ふたりはステディ	3:29
B6	シェットランドに頬をうずめて	3:46

Companies, etc.

Manufactured By – Alfa Moon, Inc.
Distributed By – Warner-Pioneer Corporation
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Alfa Moon, Inc.
Copyright © – Alfa Moon, Inc.
Produced For – Smile Company
Recorded At – Onkio Haus
Recorded At – CBS/Sony Roppongi Studio
Recorded At – A&M Studios
Mixed At – Onkio Haus
Mastered At – CBS/Sony Shinanomachi Studio
Designed At – Egg Company

Credits

Acoustic Guitar – 吉川忠英* (tracks: B6), 山下達郎* (tracks: A1, B2, B3, B5)
Alto Saxophone – 柳沼寛* (tracks: B5)
Arranged By [Horn] – Kazuo Shiina (tracks: B1)
Arranged By [String] – Hiroki Inui (tracks: B6)
Art Direction – Koji Sugano (2)
Backing Vocals – 伊藤銀次* (tracks: B3), Jim Haas (tracks: A5, B2), Jon Joyce (tracks: A5, B2), 村田和人* (tracks: B3), 竹内まりや* (tracks: A2), 杉真理* (tracks: B3), Stan Farber (tracks: A5, B2), 大貫妙子* (tracks: A2), 山下達郎* (tracks: A1, A2), 中野督夫* (tracks: A4), 細井豊* (tracks: A4)
Baritone Saxophone – 砂原俊三* (tracks: A2, A5, B1, B5)
Bass – 伊藤広規*
Co-producer – Nobumasa Uchida
Drums – 青山純* (tracks: A1, A2, A5, B1, B2, B5, B6), 山下達郎* (tracks: A3), 上原裕* (tracks: B3, B4)
Drums, Backing Vocals – 野口明彦* (tracks: A4)
Electric Guitar – 山下達郎* (tracks: A1, A2, A4, A5, B1 to B3, B5), 松木恒秀* (tracks: A5), 松浦善博* (tracks: B1)
Electric Piano – 山下達郎* (tracks: A1, B2, B5)
Engineer [2nd] – Masato Ohmori, Robert de la Garza, Shigeru Takise, Tadashi Inoue, Takanori Arai (2)
Engineer [Additional Recording Engineer] – Roger Young, Tamotsu Yoshida
Executive-Producer – Ryuzo "Junior" Kosugi*
Flugelhorn – Chuck Findley (tracks: B2)
Flute, Soloist – 中川昌三* (tracks: A5, B4)
Harp – 山川恵子* (tracks: A5, B6)
Mastered By – Mitsuru "Teppei" Kasai*
Organ – 難波弘之* (tracks: B3)
Organ [Hamond Organ] – 山下達郎* (tracks: B1, B2, B5)
Organ, Soloist – 竹内まりや* (tracks: B3)
Other [Emulator] – 山下達郎* (tracks: A1)
Other [Hair & Make-Up Designer] – Mitsuru Kohno
Other [Stylist] – Minako Kobayashi
Pedal Steel Guitar, Backing Vocals – 告井延隆* (tracks: A4)
Percussion – 浜口茂外也* (tracks: A5, B1, B2, B4 to B6), 山下達郎* (tracks: A1 to A3, A5, B2, B3,B5)
Photography By – Kaoru Ijima
Piano – 難波弘之* (tracks: A1, B4), 竹内まりや* (tracks: A4), 山下達郎* (tracks: A2, A3, B2, B5)
Piano, Electric Piano – 佐藤博* (tracks: A5), 中西康晴* (tracks: B1, B6)
Producer, Arranged By – Tatsuro Yamashita
Recorded By, Mixed By – Yasuo Satoh*
Sitar [Electric Sitar] – 山下達郎* (tracks: A3)
Strings – 加藤グループ* (tracks: A2, A3), 多グループ* (tracks: B6)
Synthesizer – 坂本龍一* (tracks: A3, B5), 山下達郎* (tracks: A2, A5, B5, B6)
Tenor Saxophone – 淵野繁雄* (tracks: B1, B5), 村岡健* (tracks: A2, A5, B5)
Tenor Saxophone, Soloist – Ernie Watts (tracks: A2, A3, A5, B5)
Trombone – 粉川忠範* (tracks: A2, A5, B1), 及川芳雄* (tracks: A2, A5)
Trombone, Soloist – 向井滋春* (tracks: B1, B6)
Trumpet – 荒木敏男* (tracks: B1)
Trumpet, Flugelhorn – 横山均* (tracks: A2, A5), 数原晋* (tracks: A2, A5, B1)
Twelve-String Guitar – 山下達郎* (tracks: B3)
Vibraphone – 山下達郎* (tracks: A3, B4)
Words By, Music By – Mariya Takeuchi

Notes

Special Thanks To:

Ryuzo Kosugi and the great staff at Moon Records for real enthusiasm and support.
Smile Company (Kenichi Nomura, Yoshiro Okazaki, Masayuki Matsumoto, Emiko Tamura, Kimmy Satoh and Terumi Iwasaki) for constant help and care.
Carmen and Keiko Mosier for being our special friends.
Roger Young, Robert De La Garza and Jay Durgan at A&M for their good job and kindness.
Scott Lawson for the useful thesaurus book.
Masuhiro Kuroda for the first class tickets to N.Y.
Onkio Haus for millions of cups of coffee.
Yoko Takeuchi, my little sister, for taking pictures.
Akiko Yano and Ryuichi Sakamoto for their occasional visits to our studio and the delicious "gioza".
Ann Lewis for flowers and chocolates.
Nichion for giving me a chance.
All the super musicians for their fabulous play.
Goofy, my dog, for being there and making me feel always happy.
And most especially, to my fans who have patiently waited for this album to be released.
I love you all!

Mariya Takeuchi
Letter address: Tokyo-to, Minato-ku, Minami Aoyama 1-8-17 Smile Company

Gatefold cover with obi. Song lyrics on inside cover.

Romaji titles (and titles as given on back cover, where different):

A1: Mou Ichido
A2: Plastic Love
A3: Honki de Only You (Let's Get Married)
B1: Amphitheater no Yoru (Night at the Amphitheater)
B2: Todokanu Omoi
B3: Mersey Beat de Utawasete
B4: Mizu to Anata to Taiyou to
B5: Futari wa Steady (Going Steady)
B6: Shetland ni Hoho wo Uzumete

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Rights Society: JASRAC
Price Code (Price): ¥2,800
Matrix / Runout (Side A, label): MOON-28018-A
Matrix / Runout (Side B, label): MOON-28018-B
Matrix / Runout (Side A, stamped (Variation 1)): MOON-28018A CS 4S5 1-A-33 I
Matrix / Runout (Side B, stamped (Variation 1)): MOON-28018B 2-A-33 I
Matrix / Runout (Side A, stamped (Variation 2)): MOON-28018A 〄CS4S5 1-A-22 I
Matrix / Runout (Side B, stamped (Variation 2)): MOON-28018B 2-A-18 I
Matrix / Runout (Side A, stamped (Variation 3)): MOON-28018A 〄CS4S5 1-A-32
Matrix / Runout: MOON-28018B 2-A-26

Other Versions (5 of 15)

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	Title (Format)	Label	Cat#	Country	Year
New Submission	Variety (LP, Album, Promo)	Moon Records (5)	MOON-28018	Japan	1984
New Submission	Variety (Cassette, Album)	Moon Records (5)	MOCT-28011	Japan	1984
New Submission	Variety (CD, Album)	Moon Records (5)	38XM-2	Japan	1984
New Submission	Variety (CD, Album, Reissue)	Moon Records (5)	32XM-28	Japan	1986
New Submission	Variety (CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Gold, LP-size)	Moon Records (5)	43XG-1	Japan	1988

Reviews

HOSHIZO-KUN Oct 19, 2021
Reservation acceptance resumed for VARIETY and REQUEST were announced.
It will be shipped after 11/17.
Tower Record: https://tower.jp/article/feature_item/2021/08/29/0703
HMV: https://www.hmv.co.jp/news/article/2108261066/
assassyn Sep 27, 2021
if you're buying this expecting it to be all similar to plastic love, you've just fooled yourself.
sakaya Aug 29, 2021
Edited one year ago
Variety together with Request & Plastic Love 12" will be released on 11/03 in Japan.

HMV page:https://www.hmv.co.jp/en/artist_Mariya-Takeuchi_000000000012693/
Tower records page:https://tower.jp/article/feature_item/2021/08/29/0703
godinreverse Jan 8, 2020
Edited 3 years ago
Of course, everyone in the western world even slightly interested in Japanese pop culture probably knows Plastic Love by now. The rest of the album is a bit different, having more of a 80s throwback to the 60s vibe - not normally my thing at all, but the songs are all really well written and the whole album just sounds so lushly produced. Thoroughly recommended. If you want a quick taste of the general sound of the other tracks, Night At The Amphitheater ( アンフィシアターの夜) has gotta be my fave here.