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Handsome Boy is the 14th studio album by a Japanese singer-songwriter Yōsui Inoue, released in 1990.

Handsome Boy
Studio album by Yōsui Inoue
Released	October 21, 1990
Genre	Folk rock
Length	47:31
Label	For Life
Producer	Yōsui Inoue
Yōsui Inoue chronology
Negative (1987) Handsome Boy (1990) The Night Without a Guide (1992)

The album contains the songs that were already known through the commercial tie-in with television programs or advertisements. Like "Gallery" which was recorded by Yoko Oginome and released as a single in June 1990, some of the materials were previously interpreted by other performers.[1]

Prior to the album, three songs were released as a single; "Yume Ne Mi", "Saigo no News", and "Shounen Jidai" which was co-written by Natsumi Hirai and has been one of his most well-known songs throughout Inoue's longtime career. It was initially featured on the theme song for an award-winning film adaptation of Fujiko Fujio (A)'s manga Childhood Days (based on Hyouzou Kashiwabara's novel Nagai Michi).[2] The song was gradually recognized through the TV ad of Sony Handycam which was aired during the following year. "Shounen Jidai" became his biggest hit single, peaking at No. 4 on the Japanese chart and selling more than 850,000 copies in total. In 1997, 3-inch CD single of the song was certified quadruple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of Japan, for shipments of over 1 million copies. [3]

Led by the success of a single "Shounen Jidai", the album Handsome Boy itself also gained favorable reaction, peaking at No. 2 on the Japanese Oricon chart and entering top-100 for over 10 months with sales of about 640,000 copies.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Yōsui Inoue, unless otherwise noted

1. "Pi Po Pa" – 3:55
2. "Emily (エミリー, Emirī)" – 3:35
3. "Rival (ライバル, Raibaru)" (Inoue, Yūji Kawashima) – 3:51
4. "Saigo no News (最後のニュース)" – 3:55
5. "Gallery (ギャラリー, Gyararī)" – 5:07
6. "Shounen Jidai (少年時代)" (Inoue, Natsumi Hirai) – 3:21
7. "Fiction (フィクション, Fikushon)" – 3:21
8. "Tokyo" (Inoue, Hirai) – 3:56
9. "Yume Ne Mi (夢寝見)" – 5:03
10. "Shizen ni Kazararete (自然に飾られて)" (Inoue, Hirai) – 6:07
11. "Choujikan no Hikou (長時間の飛行)" (Inoue, Kawashima) – 4:22

Personnel

• Yōsui Inoue – Vocals, acoustic guitar
• Hiromi Yasuda – Acoustic guitar
• Kenji Ōmura – Electric guitar
• Tomotaka Imamichi – Electric guitar
• Jun Sumida – Electric guitar
• Masaki Matsubara – Electric guitar
• Masayoshi Furukawa – Gut-string guitar
• Hirokazu Ogura – Gut-string guitar
• Masami Satou – Gut-string guitar
• Tsugutoshi Goto – Bass guitar
• Motofumi Hagiwara – Bass guitar
• Chiharu Mikuzuki – Bass guitar
• Vagabond Suzuki – Bass guitar
• Haruomi Hosono – Bass guitar, synthesizer, percussion
• Tadashi Nanba – Synthesizer
• Akira Inoue – Synthesizer
• Miharu Koshi – Synthesizer
• Akira Senju – Synthesizer
• Shinji Kawahara – Piano
• Takao Kisugi – Piano
• Yasuharu Nakanishi – Piano
• Yūji Kawashima – Synthesizer, computer programming
• Takeshi Fujii – Computer programming
• Hiroaki Sugawara – Computer programming
• Nobuo Tsuji – Computer programming
• Ma*to – Computer programming
• Yasuo Kimoto – Computer programming
• Motoya Hamaguchi – Percussion
• Eiji Narushima – Percussion
• Masato Hashida – Percussion
• Makoto Kimura – Percussion
• Hinotamao – Percussion
• Hideo Yamaki – Drums
• Eiji Shimamura – Drums
• Yutaka Odawara – Drums
• Junichi Kazezaki – Brasswinds
• Shin Kazuhara – Brasswinds
• Kenichirou Hayashi – Brasswinds
• Masahiro Kobayashi – Brasswinds
• Kenji Nakazawa – Brasswinds
• Kenji Nishiyama – Brasswinds
• Taro Kiyooka – Brasswinds
• Sumiyo Okada – Brasswinds
• Watanabe Katsu – Brasswinds
• Teiko Haruna – Woodwinds
• Mitsuru Souma – Woodwinds
• Ryūji Hoshikawa – Woodwinds
• Tadashi Togame – Woodwinds
• Masakazu Ishibashi – Woodwinds
• Toshitsugu Inoue – Woodwinds
• Jake H. Conception – Woodwinds
• Hirofumi Kinjou – Woodwinds
• Masaki Takano – Woodwinds
• Hiroyuki Ichihara – Woodwinds
• Hidefumi Toki – Woodwinds
• Aska Kaneko Strings – Strings
• Akiko Yano – Chorus
• Minako Yoshida – Chorus
• Seri Ishikawa – Chorus

Chart positions

Album

Chart	Position	Sales
Japanese Oricon Weekly Albums Chart (top 100)	2[4]	639,000+

Singles

Single	B-Side	Chart	Position	Sales
"Yume Ne Mi"	"Beni Suberi"	Japanese Oricon Weekly (top 100)[5]	37	23,000
"Saigo no News"	"Back Side"		57	16,000
"Shounen Jidai"	"Ara-Washi no Uta"		4	853,000

Release history

Country	Date	Label	Format	Catalog number	Notes
Japan	October 20, 1990	For Life Records	CD	FLCF-30081
			Audio cassette	FLTF-26021
	May 30, 2001		CD	FLCF-3858	Original recording digital remastered
	March 25, 2009	For Life Music Entertainment/BMG	SHM-CD	FLCF-5011

References

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