Shōtaijō no Nai Show

Shōtaijō no Nai Show (招待状のないショー) is the fifth studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter Yosui Inoue, issued in March 1976. It was the first long-play record he released under the For Life Records, a record label that he joined as one of the co-founders and started in 1975.

Shōtaijō no Nai Show
Studio album by Yōsui Inoue
Released	March 25, 1976
Genre	Folk rock
Length	48:35
Label	For Life
Producer	Yōsui Inoue
Yōsui Inoue chronology
Yōsui Seitan (1975) Shōtaijō no Nai Show (1976) White (1978)

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Yōsui Inoue, except where indicated

Side one

1. "Good, Good-Bye" – 3:37
2. "Shōtaijō no Nai Show (招待状のないショー)" – 3:43
3. "Makurakotoba (枕詞)" – 1:56
4. "Aozora, Hitorikiri (青空、ひとりきり)" – 4:38
5. "Summer" – 3:38
6. "Magarikado (曲り角)" – 4:38
7. "Kotoshi wa (今年は)" – 438

Side two

1. "Minazuki no Yoru (水無月の夜)" – 4:39
2. "Sakamichi (坂道)" (Inoue, Kei Ogura) – 3:22
3. "Kuchibue (口笛)" – 3:02
4. "I-Shi no Kekkon (I氏の結婚)" – 2:54
5. "Mō...... (もう......)" – 3:45
6. "Musubikotoba (結詞)" – 6:21

Personnel

• Yōsui Inoue – Acoustic guitar, electric guitar, electric bass, backing vocals
• Hiromi Yasuda – Acoustic guitar
• Hirofumi Tokutake – Electric guitar
• Masayoshi Takanaka – Electric guitar, acoustic guitar
• Mitsuo Nagai – Electric guitar, flat mandolin
• Kazuo Shiina – Electric guitar
• Hirokuni Korekata (occasionally credited to Kunihiro Korekata) – Electric guitar
• Kenji Ōmura – Electric guitar
• Shigeru Suzuki – 12-string guitar
• Hirobumi Suzuki – Electric bass
• Toru Hirano – Electric bass
• Tsugutoshi Goto – Electric bass
• Rei Ohara – Electric bass
• Hiroki Komazawa – Steel guitar
• Kunimitsu Inaba – Wood bass
• Masahiro Takekawa – Violin
• Takayoshi Watanabe – Keyboards
• Shigehito Ōhara – Piano
• Masaru Imada – Electric piano
• Jun Fukamachi – Electric piano
• Akiko Yano – Keyboards, backing vocals
• Makoto Yano – Keyboards, electric piano, rhythm box, percussion
• Ichiro Maeda – Keyboards, percussion, rhythm box
• Katz Hoshi – Percussion, backing vocals
• Shuichi Murakami – Drums
• Tatsuo Hayashi – Drums
• Tetsurō Kashibuchi – Drums
• Motoya Hamaguchi – Percussion
• Sancho Nanoha – Percussion
• Nobuo Saito – Percussion
• Fujio Saito – Percussion
• Yukiko Nishizawa – Ocarina
• Sumio Okada – Horn
• Kouji Hatori – Horn
• Kinji Yoshino – 6th

Chart positions

Album

Year	Album	Country	Chart	Position	Weeks	Sales
1976	Shoutaijou no Nai Show	Japan	Oricon Weekly LP Albums Chart (top 100)[1]	1	35	323,000+
			Oricon Weekly CT Albums Chart (top 100)[1]	1	30

Singles

Year	Single	B-Side	Chart	Position	Weeks	Sales
1975	"Aozora, Hitorikiri"	"Flight"	Japanese Oricon Weekly (top 100)[2]	8	17	255,000
1976	"Good, Good-Bye" [Edit]	"Kodomo e no Uta"		13	14	149,000

Release history

Country	Date	Label	Format	Catalog number	Notes
Japan	March 25, 1976	For Life Records	LP	FLL4002
			Audio cassette	28K13
	August 21, 1985		CD	35KD16
	February 21, 1990			FLCF-29028
	September 18, 1992		Audio cassette	FLTF-28034
			CD	FLCF-29168
	May 30, 2001			FLCF-3848	Original recording digitally remastered
	March 25, 2009	For Life Music Entertainment/BMG	SHM-CD	FLCF-5001	2001 Digital remaster

References

1. "Yosui Inoue Oricon Albums Chart listings" (in Japanese). Archived from Yamachan Land (Japan's charts archives) – Albums Chart Daijiten – the original Check |url= value (help) on 2007-06-19. Retrieved 2008-03-19.
2. "Yōsui Inoue Oricon Singles Chart listings" (in Japanese). Archived from Yamachan Land (Japan's charts archives) – Singles Chart Daijiten – the original Check |url= value (help) on 2007-10-16. Retrieved 2008-03-19.