Shake It Paradise


Shake It Paradise is the first studio album of Japanese singer Toshinobu Kubota, released on September 10, 1986. Under the label, Kubota released his first single, "Shitsui no Downtown" in June 1986, followed by "Time" in December. Both songs were well received by radio, placing fifty-three and thirty-five on the Oricon Singles Chart. "Shake It Paradise" peaked at number twenty-two and remained on the Oricon Albums Chart for seven consecutive weeks. Shake It Paradise became certified platinum.

Track listing

These are English tracklistings, then Japanese.
  1. Ryuusei no Sadoru
  2. Olympic Wa Hi No Kuruma
  3. Shake It Paradise
  4. Missing
  5. Shitsui no Downtown
  6. To The Party
  7. Mou Hitori No Kimi O Nokoshite
  8. Somebody Sorrow
  9. Dedicate
  10. Inside
  11. For You

Personnel

  • Arranged By – Kubota Band, 中村哲*, 武部聡志*, 杉山卓夫*
  • Arranged By, Lead Vocals – Toshinobu Kubota
  • Artwork By – Akio Nimbari
  • Artwork By – Tomoaki Sakai
  • Bass – Kitaro Nakamura
  • Chorus – Kumi Saito, Tomoko Yoshikawa, Toshinobu Kubota, Yuko Otaki
  • Drums, Electronic Drums – Nobuo Eguchi
  • Engineer – Masaru Arai, Michihide Nagashima, Shojiro Watanabe, Tetsuya Ikeda
  • Engineer – Takashi Shimizu
  • Engineer – Akio Ikawa, Susumu Yamazaki, Teruaki Igarashi
  • Executive Producer – Hidenori Taga, Hiroshi Inagaki
  • Guitar – Ichiro Hada, Yuji Toriyama
  • Lyrics By – 川村真澄*, 久保田利伸*
  • Mastered By – Doug Sax
  • Music By – 羽田一郎*, 久保田利伸*
  • Other – Nobuo Morinaga
  • Other – Kazuyasu Honma
  • Percussion – Makoto Kimura, Motoya Hamaguchi
  • Photography – Joji Ide
  • Piano – Takao Sugiyama
  • Producer – Hitoshi Ishitani, Tatsufumi Inaba
  • Saxophone, Woodwind – Satoshi Nakamura
  • Strings – Hiiro Group*
  • Synthesizer – Satoshi Nakamura, Satoshi Takebe, Takao Sugiyama
  • Technician – Hironori Hoki*, Itaru Sakota, Tetsuo Otake*