Summer Breeze (Miho Nakayama album)

1986 studio album by Miho Nakayama

Summer Breeze

Studio album by

Miho Nakayama

Released

July 1, 1986 (1986-07-01)

Recorded

1986

Studio

Nichion Studio
Sound City Studio

Genre

J-pop
kayōkyoku
dance-pop
teen pop

Length

43:47

Language

Japanese

Label

King Records

Producer

Norio Higuchi

Miho Nakayama chronology

After School
(1985)

Summer Breeze
(1986)

Virgin Flight '86: Miho Nakayama First Concert
(1986)

Singles from Summer Breeze

"Close Up"
Released: May 16, 1986 (1986-05-16)

Summer Breeze (サマー・ブリーズ, Samā Burīzu) is the third studio album by Japanese entertainer Miho Nakayama. Released through King Records on July 1, 1986, the album features the single "Close Up". "You're My Only Shinin' Star" was initially not released as a single, but popular demand prompted Nakayama to re-record the song as a stand-alone single, which hit No. 1 in 1988.^[1]^[2]

The album peaked at No. 8 on Oricon's albums chart and sold over 77,000 copies.^[3]^[4]

Track listing

Side A
No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Arrangement	Length
1.	"Tropic Mystery"	Reiko Yukawa	Daisuke Inoue	Jun Irie	4:13
2.	"Close Up" (Kurōzu Appu (クローズ・アップ))	Takashi Matsumoto	Kazuo Zaitsu	Masaaki Ōmura	4:27
3.	"Leave Me Alone"	Toshiki Kadomatsu	Kadomatsu	Kadomatsu	4:42
4.	"Hito Natsu no Actress" (Hito Natsu no Akutoresu (ひと夏のアクトレス, "One Summer Actress"))	Rui Serizawa	Takao Kisugi	Irie	4:32
5.	"Ocean in the Rain"	Yukawa	Inoue	Ōmura	3:32
Total length:					21:25

Side B
No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Arrangement	Length
1.	"Sign wa Hang Loose" (Sain wa Hangu Rūzu (サインはハングルーズ, "The Sign Is Hanging Loose"))	Yukawa	Inoue	Irie	4:00
2.	"Rising Love"	Kadomatsu	Kadomatsu	Kadomatsu	4:43
3.	"Wagamama" ((わがまま, "Spoiled"))	Hiroko Hosoda	Kisugi	Irie	4:00
4.	"Hitomi no Kageri" (瞳のかげり ("Shadow of the Eyes"))	Matsumoto	Zaitsu	Tatsumi Yano	4:59
5.	"You're My Only Shinin' Star"	Kadomatsu	Kadomatsu	Kadomatsu Kazuo Ōtani (strings) Shin Kazuhara (brass)	4:39
Total length:					22:21

Charts

Chart (1986)	Peak position
Japanese Albums (Oricon)^[3]	8

References

^ "中山美穂". Idol.ne.jp. 28 December 2018. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
^ "中山美穂 / サマー・ブリーズ [廃盤]". CDJournal. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
^ ^a ^b "サマー・ブリーズ | 中山美穂". Oricon. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
^ "中山美穂". Yamachan Land (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2011-08-14. Retrieved 2021-08-02.