Adult Contemporary Music in Japan

ROBBIE DUPREE

STREET CORNER HEROES

• Label: Elektra, USA <Reissued CD: Warner Japan (WPCR-3447)>
• Original Release: 1980 (Reissued CD: April 25, 1990)
• Producers: Rick Chudacoff and Peter Bunetta
• Musicians:
  • Keyboards: Richard Elliot, Bill LaBounty, Rick Chudacoff, Michael Boddicker
  • Guitars: Robert Palmer, Brian Ray, Dennis Herring, Bob Bordy
  • Bass: Rick Chudacoff
  • Drums: Peter Bunetta
  • Percussion: Peter Bunetta, Miguel Rivero, Alan Estes
  • Sitar: Kal David
  • Sax: Jerry Peterson
  • Background Vocals: Kal David, Leslie Smith, Arno Lucas, Bill LaBounty, Matthew Weiner, Joe Turano

• Label: Elektra, USA <Reissued CD: Warner Japan (WPCR-3448)>
• Original Release: 1981 (Reissued CD: April 25, 1990)
• Producer: Rick Chudacoff and Peter Bunetta
• Musicians:
  • Guitars: Dennis Herring, Brian Ray
  • Bass: Rick Chudacoff
  • Drums: Peter Bunetta
  • Keyboards: Bill Elliot, Michael Boddicker
  • Percussion: Joe Lala, Arno Lucas, Rick Chudacoff, Peter Bunetta
  • Sax: Jerry Peterson, David Woodford
  • Trumpet: Lee Thornburg, Darrel Leonard, Bill Armstrong
  • Trombone: George McWhirter
  • Background Vocals: Leslie Smith, Arno Lucas, Bill LaBounty, Matthew Weiner, Joe Turano, David Anderson, Kal David

1. Steal Away
2. I'm No Stranger
3. Thin Line
4. It's A Feeling
5. Hot Rod Hearts
6. Nobody Else
7. We Both Tries
8. Love Is A Mystery

1. Street Corner Heroes
2. Desperation
3. Brooklyn Girls
4. All Night Long
5. Free Fallin'
6. I'll Be The Fool Again
7. Are You Ready For Love?
8. Saturady Night
9. Missin' You
10. The Long Goodbye

CARRIED AWAY

• Label : Village Green -Pony Canyon, Japan (PCCY-00005)
• Release Date: September 21, 1989
• Producer: Himself
• Musicians:
  • Keyboards: David Sancious, Vinnie Martucci, Harvey Jones, Tom Nicholson
  • Guitar: John Tropea, Andrew Essex, Paul Brannon, Larry Hopen, David Sancious
  • Bass: Tony Levin, Jeremy Aslop
  • Drums: Jerry Marotta, Gary Bruke, Harvey Sorgen, Peter Bunetta
  • Percussion: Peter Martin
  • Horns: Paul Brannon
  • Background Vocals: Leslie Smith, Ann Lang, Larry Hoppen, Bob Leinbach
  • Remarks: This album was also released in U.S.A from Gold Castle (later reissued by BMG/Miramar Serial No.:9363 23034 4), and BEVERLY RECORDS released it in Germany in 1990 (BMG ARIS No.871 003 Int'l No.BEV 003).

     

• Tracks:
1. This Is Life
2. Talk To You
3. Shadows On The Wall
4. In Real Life
5. Emotion
6. Carried Away (guest vocals: Karen Mantler)
7. Tears
8. Why

WALKING ON WATER 

• Label : GERONIMO - Polystar, Japan (PSCW-5013)
• Release Date: June 25, 1993
• Producer: himself
• Musicians:
  • Keyboards: Carl Adami, Harvey Jones,
  • Piano: David Sancious
  • Guitar: Nile Rogers, Chris Lane, Jim Weider, Larry Hoppen, Andrew Essex, John Hall
  • Bass: Carl Adami, Tony Levin
  • Drums: John Robinson, Jerry Marotta
  • Percussion: Arno Lucas
  • Trumpet and Flugelhorn: Don Harris
  • Sax: Bill Harris
  • Trombone: John Fumasoli
  • Background vocals: Larry Hoppen, Arno Lucas, Elaine Caswell, Debbie Lan
• Remarks: This album is also released and distributed by BMG/Miramar (Serial No.:9363 23033 4), and BEVERLY RECORDS released it in Germany (BMG ARIS No.871 009 Int'l No.BEV 009).

• Tracks:
1. Walking On Water
2. Goodbye To L.A.
3. Money
4. Return To Her
5. Learn To Cry
6. If We Try Again
7. Walls Come Down
8. Right Direction
9. Evil Eye

• Label : GERONIMO - Polystar, Japan (PSCW-5321)
• Release Date: October 25, 1995
• Producers: Tom Mark and himself
• Musicians:
  • Keyboards: Rick Chudacoff, Harvey Jones
  • Piano & Keyboards: Debbie Lan, David Sancious
  • Guitars: Jeff Pevar, John Hall, Larry Hoppen
  • Bass: Tony Levin, Carl Adami,
  • Drums: Steve Gadd
  • Percussion: Dean Sharp, Bashiri Johnson
  • Flute: Bill Harris
  • Vibes: Joel "Bishop" O'Brien
  • Background vocals: Larry Hoppen, Debbie Lan, Ann Lang, Donna Lewis, Tim Lawless

• Tracks:
1. The Hurting Game
2. Miracle Mile
3. Real World
4. Truly Amazing
5. Month Of Sundays
6. Smoke And Mirrors
7. Person To Person
8. Wings
9. I Don't Mind
10. The Long Goodbye

VINTAGE

Vintage is a collection of five previously unreleased tracks recorded during the early stages of Robbie's career. Tracks 1-4 were recorded in L.A. in February 1983, which were the last recordings produced by Rick Chudacoff and Peter Bunetta. Track 5 is mid 70's recording under the name of the band "Small Fortune". Only 1000 copies have been pressed, and only been available through a few sources throughout the world!

• Label: none (Distributed by West Coast Archives in USA, Prowest in France and Vivid Sound in Japan)
• Release Date: March, 1997
• Producers: Rick Chudacoff and Peter Bunetta (tracks 1-4), Jerry Block(track 5)
• Musicians:
  • Drums: Peter Bunetta, Joel "Bishop" O'Brien
  • Bass: Rick Chudacoff, Lloyd Donelly
  • Keyboards: Bill Elliot
  • Synthesizer: Bill Como
  • Guitars: Brian Ray, Tony Banks
  • Cpnga and Percussion: Billy Curtis
  • Sax: Josh Shneider
  • Trumpet: Eric Hanigberg
  • Background Vocals: Bill LaBounty, Mathew Wilder, Leslie Smith, Kal David, Kevin Wells

• Tracks:
  1. Nobody's Gonna Take Your Place
  2. Take All My Chances With You
  3. Come And Get Your Love
  4. She Loves My Car
  5. When You're Down

LIVE - ALL NIGHT LONG <Limited Edition>

This live album was recorded in Bearsville, Newyork on Sept. 18 and 19, 1998 and is said to be a kind of his anthology live album. And, Supporting musicians for this live recording is also remarkable in addition to the tracklisting of this album. Rick Chudacoff and Peter Bunetta, producing team of Robbie's 1st and 2nd album plays with Braian Ray and Arno Lucas, all of whom are the member of the legendary group "Crackin'" and also played on Robbie's 1st album!! Of course, Debbie Lan and Ann Lang, the ladies known for recent Robbie's albums also plays with them. This live album are released as "Limited Edition" double CDs with 19 songs plus band introductions by Robbie himself. The live highlight single CD album of 14 tracks with differnt artworks is releasing under the Japanese label "Dreamsville Records" in Japan in January, 1999 as below.

• Label : None (CD serial : None)
• Release Date: December, 1998
• Producers: himself
• Associate Producer: Tom Mark
• Musicians:
  • Peter Bunetta: Drums
  • Rick Chudacoff: Bass
  • Debbie Lan: Piano, Vocals
  • Ann Lang: Vocals, Percussion
  • Brian Ray: Guitar
  • Tom Nicholson: Keyboards
  • Arno Lucas: Percussion, Vocals
  • Tony Levin: Bass on "Real World"
  • John Hall: Guitar on "Tell Mama" and Bass Vocal on "All Night Long"

• Tracks:

(Disc1)

1. Hot Rod Hearts
2. Talk To You
3. Desperation
4. Miracle Mile
5. Hurting Game
6. Lonely Runner
7. Real World
8. This Is Life
9. Right Direction
10. Shadows On The Wall
11. Freefallin'
12. Steal Away
13. Saturday Night

(Disc2)

1. All Night Long
2. Brooklyn Girls
3. Mister O
4. Real Life
5. Life Saver
6. Tell Mama

ALL NIGHT LONG

"All Night Long" Non-limited Edition was released as the highlight single CD album with 14 tracks.

• Label : Dreamsville Records, Japan (YDCD-0002), Milamar Records, USA (09006-23145-2)
• Release Date: January 25, 1999 <Japan>, October 26, 1999 <USA>
• Producers: himself
• Associate Producer: Tom Mark
• Musicians:
  • Peter Bunetta: Drums
  • Rick Chudacoff: Bass
  • Debbie Lan: Piano, Vocals
  • Ann Lang: Vocals, Percussion
  • Brian Ray: Guitar
  • Tom Nicholson: Keyboards
  • Arno Lucas: Percussion, Vocals
  • Tony Levin: Bass on "Real World"
  • John Hall: Bass Vocal on "All Night Long"

Japanese version uses the different artworks from its U.S. version.

• Tracks:
  1. Hot Rod Hearts
  2. Talk To You
  3. Desperation
  4. Miracle Mile
  5. The Hurting Game
  6. Lonely Runner
  7. Real World
  8. This Is Life
  9. Right Direction
  10. Shadows On The Wall
  11. Free Fallin'
  12. Steal Away
  13. Saturday Night
  14. All Night Long

This is the 2nd collection CD, which contains great suuff inculding the songs from the first album recorded in Spanish (Track 3,4,5,6) never came out. Also, a live track (Track7) recorded on June 18, 1991 in Tokyo, Japan and demo's from the early and mid-80's (Track 1,2,8) are included.. Everybody must think it is really cool! Please note that Only 1000 copies have been made and featuring 4 never-released songs and a video clip.

• Label : None (CD serial # : None)
• Release Date: July 12, 2001
• Producers: himself
• Musicians:
  • Bass: Tony Levin, Rick Chudacoff, Carl Adami
  • Guitars: Larry Hoppen, Robert Palmer, Kal David, Brian Ray, Dennis Herring, Andrew Essex
  • Keyboards: Larry Hoppen, Bill Elliot, Michael Boddicker, Debbie Lan. Harvey Jones, Tom Nicholson, Kenny Nemiroff
  • Drums: Jerry Marotta, Peter Bunetta, David Beebe
  • Percussion: Miguel Rivera
  • Sax: Josh Shneider
  • Background Vocals: Larry Hoppen, Kal David, Leslie Smith, Arno Lucas, Ann Lang

• Tracks:
  1. Lucky Day
  2. All Your Love
  3. Naveguemos (Steal Away)
  4. Tu eres solitaria (Lonely Runner)
  5. Autos de Amor (Hot Rod Hearts)
  6. Siento que he Fallado (It's A Feeling)
  7. Carried Away
  8. Why
  9. This Is Life (Bonus Video Clip)

ROBBIE DUPREE with DAVID SANCIOUS

Robbie with acclaimed piano player David Sancious revisit Robbie's own favourite songs. "Carried Away", the title track of his 3rd album (1989) would open this gentle and calm album and is followed by "Month Of Sundays" from the album "Smoke And Mirrors" (1995) and then "Walls Come Down" from the album "Waalking On Water" (1993) .The heart-felt tune, "This is Life" (from the album "Carried Away") should be the highlight of this album. "Desperation" from his 2nd album "Street Corner Heroes" might please you. The album also includes another each from his 90's album: - "Return To Her" from the album "Walking On The Water", "Wings" from the album "Smoke And The Moirror" and "In Real Life" from the ablum "Carried Away". Last but not least, The album is closed by the brand new song "Sunny Day".

• Label: n/a (Japan: Dremaville Records <YDCD-104>)
• Release Date: September 15, 2003 (Japan: April 24, 2004)
• Producer: himself
• Arranger / Recording Engineer: David Sancious
• Recording Engineer / Mix: Rick Chudacoff
• Musicians:
  • David Sancious: Piano

• Tracks:
  1. Carried Away
  2. Month Of Sundays
  3. Walls Comedown
  4. This Is Life
  5. Return To Her
  6. Wings
  7. Desperation
  8. In Real Life
  9. Sunny Day

Live at duo Music Exchange

Duo Music Exchange, the live house here in Tokyo has started to release a set of a live DVD and a live CD filmed & recorded live at the live house as "World Premium Artist Series 100's". The first artist of this series release is Robbie Dupree. Recorded on Saturday March 13, 2004. I was there (2nd row, almost center position) and therefore I can say it was really good live performance. You will appreciate that DVD captures their excellent performance and makes you feel as if you were there. Other live performances will be released in 2005 and details are shown on my ACMJ International Blog, which please check out. Lastly, it might be very imporatant for you regarding DVD format of this series:- NTSC Region All (0).

• Label: Duo Music Exchange Co., Ltd. Japan (distributed by Avex Distribution) <DVBD-10002/B>
• Release Date: December 22, 2004
• Robbie Dupree : Vocals, Harmonica
• Band Members:
  • Larry Hoppen: Guitars, Vocals
  • David Sancious: Keyboards
  • Rick Chudacoff: Bass
  • Peter Bunetta: Drums

     

• Tracks
  1. Goodbye To L.A.
  2. Miracle Mile
  3. Real World
  4. Desperation
  5. Talk To You
  6. This Is Life
  7. Sunny Day
  8. Steal Away
  9. Hot Rod Hearts
  10. Work To Do
  11. I'll Be Around
  12. Driftin' & Driftin'

Time And Tide

"Time and Tide�h marks the ninth studio record of the artist. Comparing with his former studio-recording albums, you might feel Robbie's music style has changed a little. I believe that the main reason must be this is a kind of new Robbie Dupree's Band record rather than the mere solo artist's record. David Sancious has brought a little bit different music style to the band. The result is really awesome and you might feel like listening to a Steely Dan's album. Perfect one! NO, more than perfect. All songs on this album would be are diamonds.True masterpiece!

• Label: Robbie Dupree Music, USA [RD05] (Scandinavia: Zinc Music [ZMCD004], Japan: Music Air International [MAIR-1001] )
• Release Date: February 1, 2008 (US advanced release), April 23, 2008 (Scandinavia), May 10, 2008 (Japan)
• Producer: himself
• Robbie Dupree: Vocals, Guitar, Harmonica
• Musicians:
  • David Sancious: Keyboards
  • Larry Hoppen: Guitar, Trumpet, Backing Vocals
  • Leslie Smith: Congas, Percussion, Backing Vocals
  • Rick Chudacoff: Bass
  • Peter Bunetta: Drums
• Additional Musicians:
  • Oudu Drum: Manuel Quintana (Track 2)
  • Congas: Ralph McDonald (Track 4)

• Tracks:
  1. Wrpped Around Your Finger
  2. Mystery World
  3. Lucky
  4. Sugar Tree
  5. Blue Monday
  6. Secret Love
  7. Knocking On The Gates Of Eden
  8. Satisfied
  9. Judgement Day
  10. Steal Away (New Version) [Bonus only for Japan]