Tropical Dandy | ||||
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Studio album by Haruomi Hosono | ||||
Released | June 25, 1975 | |||
Recorded | Crown Studio Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo |
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Genre |
Jazz fusion Exotica |
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Label | PANAM, CROWN | |||
Producer | Haruomi Hosono | |||
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Singles from Tropical Dandy | ||||
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Source | Rating |
The Wire | favorable |
Tropical Dandy is Haruomi Hosono's second solo album. This album continues the tropical style of Hosono House (which would continue later on with Bon Voyage co. and Paraiso) and also features performances from "Caramel Mama" (who had, by this point, changed their name to "Tin Pan Alley"). This album was re-issued as part of a box set with bonus tracks taken from Tin Pan Alley albums by Crown decades later.
All tracks written by Haruomi Hosono, except "Chattanooga Choo Choo", with music by Harry Warren, lyrics by Mack Gordon and lyrics translated by Hosono; "Hyōryūki", "Sanji no Komori Uta" & "“Yoimachigusa”'s Theme", written by Hosono with horns & strings arranged by Makoto Yano; "Choo Choo Gatagoto'75", written by Hosono, arranged by Tin Pan Alley with chorus arranged by Tatsuro Yamashita and "Yellow Magic Carnival", written by Hosono, arranged by Tin Pan Alley with strings arranged by Masataka Matsutoya.