Shake It Paradise

Shake It Paradise
Studio album by Toshinobu Kubota
Released	September 10, 1986
Recorded	1982-1986
Genre	pop, R&B
Length	47:02
Label	Sony Music Entertainment Japan
Producer	Hidenori Taga (exec. producer), Hiroshi Inagaki (exec. producer), Toshinobu Kubota, Hitoshi Ishitani, Tatsufumi Inaba
Toshinobu Kubota chronology
Shake It Paradise (1986) Groovin' (1987)

Shake It Paradise is the first studio album of Japanese singer Toshinobu Kubota, released on September 10, 1986. Under the label, Kubota released his first single, "Shitsui no Downtown" in June 1986, followed by "Time" in December. Both songs were well received by radio, placing fifty-three and thirty-five on the Oricon Singles Chart. "Shake It Paradise" peaked at number twenty-two and remained on the Oricon Albums Chart for seven consecutive weeks.^[1] Shake It Paradise became certified million.^[2]

Track listing

1. Ryuusei no Sadoru (流星のサドル Saddle of meteor)
2. Olympic (Wa Hi No Kuruma) (オリンピックは火の車 Olympic is a fiery chariot)
3. Shake It Paradise
4. Missing
5. Shitsui no Downtown (失意のダウンタウン Downtown Disappointment)
6. To The Party
7. Mou Hitori No Kimi O Nokoshite (もうひとりの君を残して Leave you alone anymore)
8. Somebody's Sorrow
9. Dedicate(TO M.E.)
10. Inside (Kaanibaru) (カーニバルの内側 Inside Carnival)
11. Tsutaekirenakute (フォー·ユー〜伝えきれなくて For You (No Fit Tells))

Personnel

• Arranged By – Kubota Band (tracks: 3), 中村哲* (tracks: 5, 10), 武部聡志* (tracks: 1, 9), 杉山卓夫* (tracks: 2, 4, 6 to 8, 11)
• Arranged By [All Vocals & Chorus], Lead Vocals – Toshinobu Kubota
• Artwork By [Art Direction & Design] – Akio Nimbari
• Artwork By [Design] – Tomoaki Sakai
• Bass [Electric, Synthesizer] – Kitaro Nakamura
• Chorus – Kumi Saito (tracks: 3, 6, 8, 9), Tomoko Yoshikawa (tracks: 3, 6, 8, 9), Toshinobu Kubota, Yuko Otaki (tracks: 3, 6, 8, 9)
• Drums, Electronic Drums [Simmons] – Nobuo Eguchi
• Engineer [Assistant] – Masaru Arai, Michihide Nagashima, Shojiro Watanabe, Tetsuya Ikeda
• Engineer [Recording & Mixing] – Takashi Shimizu
• Engineer [Recording] – Akio Ikawa, Susumu Yamazaki, Teruaki Igarashi
• Executive Producer – Hidenori Taga, Hiroshi Inagaki
• Guitar [Electric] – Ichiro Hada, Yuji Toriyama (tracks: 1, 9)
• Lyrics By – 川村真澄* (tracks: 1, 5 to 8, 10, 11), 久保田利伸* (tracks: 2 to 4, 9)
• Mastered By [Re-mastered] – Doug Sax
• Music By – 羽田一郎* (tracks: 2, 3, 6, 10), 久保田利伸*
• Other [Assistant Director] – Nobuo Morinaga
• Other [Director] – Kazuyasu Honma
• Percussion – Makoto Kimura (tracks: 1, 9), Motoya Hamaguchi (tracks: 5, 10)
• Photography – Joji Ide
• Piano – Takao Sugiyama
• Producer – Hitoshi Ishitani, Tatsufumi Inaba
• Saxophone, Woodwind [Reed] – Satoshi Nakamura (tracks: 5, 10)
• Strings – Hiiro Group*
• Synthesizer – Satoshi Nakamura (tracks: 5, 10), Satoshi Takebe (tracks: 1, 9), Takao Sugiyama
• Technician [Operator] – Hironori Hoki* (tracks: 2 to 4, 6 to 8), Itaru Sakota (tracks: 5, 10), Tetsuo Otake* (tracks: 1, 9)

References

1. "Toshinobu KubotaのCDアルバムランキング" (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved 2012-08-05.
2. Toshi Kubota Overview. All Music Guide. Retrieved on August 5, 2012