is the first instalment of a soundtrack

Soundtrack

A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...

 series by the same name of the anime

Anime

is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....

 Dragon Ball Z. It was released by Columbia Records

Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...

 on July 21, 1989 in Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

 only.

Album information

This album contains the theme songs and several image songs popular among many fans. Also included on this collection is the insert song "Tenkaichi Gohan" from the first Dragon Ball Z film Ora no Gohan o Kaese!! know outside Japan as Dead Zone. The album cover features one of the rare images of Vegeta

Vegeta

is a fictional character and antihero in the Dragon Ball franchise created by Akira Toriyama. Vegeta first appeared in the manga chapter #204 first published in Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine on December 19, 1988, and in episode 5 of its anime adaptation Dragon Ball Z...

 with his original anime color scheme.

Track listing

1. Cha-La Head-Cha-La
   CHA-LA HEAD-CHA-LA
   is the first opening theme song of the anime series Dragon Ball Z and is the fifteenth single by J-pop artist Hironobu Kageyama. It was released on vinyl, cassette, and mini CD on May 1, 1989 in Japan only. It is coupled with the first Dragon Ball Z closing theme "Detekoi Tobikiri Zenkai Power!"...
   
   
2. ドラゴン・ワールドへようこそ!
   Doragon Wārudo e Yôkoso!/Welcome to the Dragon World!
3. ママは倖せ祈ってる
   Mama wa Shiawase Inotteru/Mama is Wishing for Happiness
4. あいつは孫悟空
   Son Goku (Dragon Ball)
   Goku, known as in the English-language manga and original Japanese-language version, is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the Dragon Ball franchise created by Akira Toriyama. He is loosely based on Sun Wukong, a central character in Journey to the West...
   
   
   Aitsu wa Son Gokū/He's That Damn Son Goku
5. 永遠の地球
   Eien no Chikyū/Earth of Eternity
6. 修羅色の戦士
   Shura-Iro no Senshi/Battle-Colors of the Warriors
7. 燃えろ!ドラゴン・ソルジャーズ
   Moero! Doragon Sorujāzu/Burn, Dragon Soldiers!
8. トラブル・サーフィン
   Toraburu Sāfin/Trouble Surfing
9. 天下-ゴハン
   Tenkaichi Gohan/The World's Greatest Gohan
10. でてこいとびきりZENKAIパワー!
    Detekoi Tobikiri Zenkai Pawā!/Come Out, Incredible Zenkai Power!

Song Credits

1. Hironobu Kageyama
   Hironobu Kageyama
   is a Japanese musical artist prominent in the soundtracks for anime, video game, and tokusatsu productions. He is sometimes called Kami by his fans. Kageyama got his big break at age 16, as lead singer of the pop group Lazy. By the early '80s, the band split and Kageyama went solo...
   
   
2. Waffle
3. Waffle, Spoken Lines: Mayumi Sho as Chi-Chi
4. Hironobu Kageyama & Waffle
5. Waffle
6. Koji Kaya
7. Jun'ichiro Oda
8. Ushio Hashimoto
9. Masako Nozawa
   Masako Nozawa
   is a Japanese voice actress and actress affiliated with Office Nozawa. Her pet name is Mako. Her husband, Masa'aki Tsukada is also a voice actor....
   
    as Son Gohan
   Son Gohan
   is a fictional character from the Dragon Ball universe created by Akira Toriyama as a protagonist for the media franchise, which consists of a series of manga, anime, soundtracks, movies, television specials, video games, and other collectibles...
   
   
10. Manna