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Kfukuron
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Wikipedia article
is the debut single by Japanese singer Ringo Sheena and it was released on May 27, 1998 by Toshiba EMI, East World.
Since Sheena suddenly gained popularity, it was decided that this single was resold as a 12 cm single.
New edition, including the new song, was re-released with the fourth single "Honn" on October 27, 1999. The 1999 edition was certified gold by the RIAJ for 200,000 copies shipped to stores.
Background
"Kfukuron" and "Suberidai" were produced by Hiroshi Kitashiro, who is an audio engineer and synthesizer programmer, and "Toki ga Bs Suru" was produced by Uni Inoue, who is an audio engineer and multi-instrumentalist. Seiji Kameda arranged all songs. Sheena wanted to release not "Kfukuron" but B-side song "Suberidai" as a title tune. However, she gave up on the idea because of opposition from EMI staff.
Since Sheena was not pleased with the arrangement of "Kfukuron," the single version was not included in the album. The song was used as the theme song to the TBS variety show 'Ai no Hinadan', and the "Etsuraku-hen" version featured on 'Muzai Moratorium', in a 1999 commercial for Suntory's 'The Cocktail Bar Cassis & Orange'.
The song was covered as a part of a medley by Rie Tomosaka on the television show 'The Yoru mo Hippare' on September 9, 2000. It was later covered by Arashi members Jun Matsumoto and Masaki Aiba on their 2002 concert 'Arashi Storm Concert Tour 2003 "Atarashi Arashi"'.
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Credits and personnel
'Kfukuron'
* Synthesizer Programming: Hiroshi Kitashiro
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** Vocals: Ringo Sheena
** Electric Guitar: Susumu Nishikawa
** Electric Bass: Seiji Kameda
** Drums: Noriyasu "'Ksuke'" Kawamura
'Suberidai'
* Vocals: Ringo Sheena
* Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar: Susumu Nishikawa
* Contrabass: Hitoshi Watanabe
* Synthesizer Programming: Hiroshi Kitashiro
'Toki ga Bs Suru'
* Vocals, Piano: Ringo Sheena
* Drums: Masayuki Muraishi
* Synthesizer Programming: Nobuhiko Nakayama
References
Category:Ringo Sheena songs
Category:1998 songs
Category:1998 debut singles
Category:1999 singles
Category:Songs written by Ringo Sheena
Category:Song recordings produced by Seiji Kameda
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