On the Street Corner

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On the Street Corner is a 1980 album by Tatsuro Yamashita.

A cover album featuring Tatsuro Yamashita's favorite oldies, especially doo-wop songs. Many of the takes recorded were initially performed purely as Yamashita's hobby, and while some of them were shown on stage, the number of songs gradually accumulated, so that's it. So it was put together as an album. Therefore, while some are close to the original copy, some are quite different from the original image.

Terms such as "a cappella," "doo-wop," and "single-person multiple chorus" were first widely disseminated in Japan on this album.[1]

Later, he commented on this work, "When "RIDE ON TIME" came in first place, I've been waiting for a long time to do something like this. If it sells, I can do whatever I want. Anyway, I want to do doo-wop and I want to do it .... This album is a kind of confirmation or holding down to close the gap between old fans and fans from "Ride on Time". I think it has become".[2]

On The Street Corner
Studio album by
Tatsuro Yamashita
ReleasedDecember 19, 1980
StudioCBS SONY ROPPONGI
GenreDoo-wop, A cappella, Rock, Pop
Length43:19
53:29 (2002 reissue)
LanguageEnglish
Label
ProducerTatsuro Yamashita
Tatsuro Yamashita chronology

(1980) 		On The Street Corner
(1980)
(1982)

Track listing[]

Side one[]

  1. "You Belong to Me" (Chilton Price, Pee Wee King, Redd Stewart)
  2. "Close Your Eyes" (Chuck Willis), with the voice of Yoshida Minako.[3]
  3. "Spanish Harlem" (Jerry Leiber, Phil Spector)
  4. "Alone" (Morty Kraft, Selma Kraft)
  5. "Most of All" (Alan Freed, Harvey Fuqua)

Side two[]

  1. "Remember Me Baby" (Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil)
  2. "Blue Velvet" (Bernie Wayne, Lee Morris)
  3. "The Wind" (Nolan Strong, Quentin Eubanks, Juan Guieterriez, Willie Hunter, Bob "Chico" Edwards)
  4. "Drip Drop" (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller)
  5. "That's My Desire" (Helmy Kresa, Carroll Loveday)

Track listing (2000 expanded and remastered reissue)[]

  1. "You Belong to Me" (Price, King, Stewart)
  2. "Close Your Eyes" (Willis)
  3. "Spanish Harlem" (Leiber, Spector)
  4. "Alone" (M. Kraft, S. Kraft)
  5. "Most of All" (Freed, Fuqua)
  6. "Gee" (William Davis, Morris Levy)
  7. "Close Your Eyes" -All Tatsuro Version- (Willis)
  8. "Remember Me Baby" (Mann, Weil)
  9. "Blue Velvet" (Wayne, Morris)
  10. "The Wind" (Strong, Eubanks, Guieterriez, Hunter, Edwards)
  11. "Drip Drop" (Leiber, Stoller)
  12. "That's My Desire" (Kresa, Loveday)

Chart positions[]

Year Country Chart Position Weeks Sales
1980 Japan Oricon Weekly LP Albums Chart (top 100) 13 16 88,000[4]
Oricon Weekly CT Albums Chart (top 100) 46 14
1986 Oricon Weekly CD Albums Chart (top 100) 5 12 95,000[4]
Oricon Weekly LP Albums Chart (top 100) 16 14
Oricon Weekly CT Albums Chart (top 100) 22 13
2000 Oricon Weekly Albums Chart (top 100) 18 6 40,000[4]

References[]

  1. ^ "ディスコグラフィ｜山下達郎 OFFICIAL SITE". www.tatsuro.co.jp. Retrieved 2021-09-13.
  2. ^ "PERFORMANCE'86" Concert Program, 1986.
  3. ^ "ON THE STREET CORNER". www.yutopia.or.jp. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
  4. ^ a b c "Tatsuro Yamashita" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2007-11-11. Retrieved 2008-03-19.
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