First Time (Morning Musume album)
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is the first album from the J-pop
J-pop
, an abbreviation for Japanese pop, is a musical genre that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s. Modern J-pop has its roots in 1960s music, such as The Beatles, and replaced kayōkyoku in the Japanese music scene...

 idol group Morning Musume
Morning Musume
, sometimes referred to as is a Japanese idol girl group, whose act generally revolves around singing and dancing to upbeat melodies. They are the lead group of Hello! Project, which is managed and produced by Tsunku, who composes nearly all the lyrics and melodies of their songs...

, consisting of only the 1st and 2nd generation members. It was released on July 8, 1998 and sold 310,290 copies. It had ten of their top selling songs from the beginning of their career, including "Ai no Tane
Ai no Tane
is the unofficial debut single of Japanese pop idol group Morning Musume, released under a defunct independent sub-label of Zetima Records on November 3, 1997...

" and "Morning Coffee".

Track listing

  1. "Good Morning" – 4:07
  2. – 3:48
  3. – 3:42
  4. – 4:31
  5. – 5:00
  6. – 4:13
  7. – 4:59
  8. – 4:11
  9. – 4:02
  10. – 4:33

Musical personnel

  • Natsumi Abe
    Natsumi Abe
    is a Japanese singer and actress, a former member of Morning Musume, and currently a member of Dream Morning Musume.-Career:On August 13, 2003, she released her first single, "22 Sai no Watashi," which means "Me, 22 years old," just a few days after her 22nd birthday...

     – vocals
  • Asuka Fukuda
    Asuka Fukuda
    is a Japanese pop singer, and she was a member of Morning Musume from 1997 until April 18, 1999.In 1997, Fukuda joined Morning Musume along with Yuko Nakazawa, Aya Ishiguro, Natsumi Abe, and Kaori Iida. Although she was the youngest member at that time, she was the first to graduate in April 1999...

     – vocals
  • Aya Ishiguro
    Aya Ishiguro
    is a singer, writer, TV personality and fashion designer in Japan, most famous for her participation in pop group Morning Musume. She was born in Hokkaidō, Japan on May 12, 1978.Aya Ishiguro was a runner-up in a 1997 contest to find a new female rock idol...

     – vocals
  • Yuko Nakazawa
    Yuko Nakazawa
    is a Japanese pop and enka singer, and actress, best known as one of the original members of the all-female J-pop group Morning Musume. She is currently a member of Dream Morning Musume.- Biography :...

     – vocals
  • Kaori Iida
    Kaori Iida
    is a Japanese pop singer and actress, associated with Hello! Project and best known as a founding member of the girl band Morning Musume. She has also recorded with the Morning Musume side project band Tanpopo and is currently a solo artist...

     – vocals
  • Mari Yaguchi
    Mari Yaguchi
    , known professionally by her birth name of is a Japanese pop artist and former member of Hello! Project. She is a former member of Morning Musume and Tanpopo, one of its first sub groups, and also founded Minimoni...

     – vocals (except on "Morning Coffee" and "Ai No Tane")
  • Sayaka Ichii
    Sayaka Ichii
    joined the girl group Morning Musume in 1998. She, along with Mari Yaguchi and Kei Yasuda, formed the second generation of members. While in Morning Musume, Sayaka Ichii was put into the spin-off group, Petitmoni. Ichii was also part of the Hello Project! Summer Shuffles 2000 group Aoiro 7...

     – vocals (except on "Morning Coffee" and "Ai No Tane")
  • Kei Yasuda
    Kei Yasuda
    is a Japanese singer, musician and actress under the Up Front Agency's Hello! Project. She was a member and co-leader of the pop group Morning Musume. Yasuda, along with Mari Yaguchi and Sayaka Ichii, were the second generation of singers to be recruited into Morning Musume...

     – vocals (except on "Morning Coffee" and "Ai No Tane")
  • Tsunku
    Tsunku
    , better known professionally as , is a prolific Japanese record producer, songwriter, and vocalist.He is best known for having two major roles in the Japanese music landscape: first as the lead singer of the popular rock group Sharam Q, and now as the producer, primary composer, lyricist and main...

    – songwriting (except on Track 6), tambourine (Track 9), backing vocal (Track 10)
  • Masahiro Inaba – electric guitar (Tracks 1,2,3,5,8)
  • Yasuaki Maejima – acoustic piano (Tracks 1,5,10), keyboards (Tracks 1,2,5), MIDI and drum machine programming (Tracks 1,2,3,5), bongo and wind chime (Track 5), Fender Rhodes piano (Track 9)
  • Gen Ogimi – percussion (Track 2)
  • Mansaku Kimura – drums (Track 3)
  • Masafumi Yokoyama – bass (Track 3)
  • Shiro Sasaki – trumpet (Track 3), flugelhorn (Track 5)
  • Futoshi Kobayashi – trumpet (Track 3)
  • Wakaba Kawai – trombone (Track 3)
  • Kan Nishida – bass trombone (Track 3)
  • Nobuyuki Mori – tenor sax (Track 3)
  • Yuichi Takahashi – 12-string guitar (Track 4), acoustic guitar (Tracks 4,5), MIDI and drum machine programming (Tracks 3,9)
  • Kiyoshi Tsuchiya – electric guitar (Track 4)
  • Shin Kōno – acoustic piano, keyboards (Track 4,6)
  • Tetsutaro Sakurai – MIDI and drum programming (Track 4), backing vocals (Track 6)
  • Satoshi Sano – trombone (Track 5)
  • Kinbara Group – strings (Track 5)
  • Yuji Yokozeni – drums (Track 6,7)
  • Masahiko Rokukawa – bass (Track 6)
  • Kiyoshi Tsuchiya – electric guitar (Track 6)
  • Hitoshi Watanabe – bass (Track 7)
  • Shunsuke Kurō – electric guitar, MIDI and drum machine programming (Track 7)
  • Ryuosuke Imai – MIDI and drum programming, turntable (Track 8)
  • Noriyasu Kawamura – drums (Track 9)
  • Chiharu Mikuzuki – bass (Track 9)
  • Takahashi Masuzaki – electric and acoustic guitars (Track 9)

Recording Personnel

  • Engineers: Kazumi Matsui, Taakahisa Yuzawa, Takeshi Yanagisawa, Takahiro Suzuki, Yoshihide Mikami, Takeshi Inaba, Akimi Tani
  • Assistant Engineers: Ryo Wakizaka, Shinosuki Kobayahi, Hiroyuki Akita, Tomoyuki Niitsu, Kentaro Kikuchi, Hisashi Nagayama
  • Mastering Engineer: Mitsuo Koike

External links

  • First Time entry on the Up-Front Works official website
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