Tokyo Rose (album)

Infobox Album | Name = Tokyo Rose
Type = Album
Artist = Van Dyke Parks


Released = July 1989
Length = 46:24
Label = Warner Bros. Records
Producer = Andrew Wickam
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:tsj97i5jg72r~T0 link]
Last album = "Jump!"
(1984)
This album = "Tokyo Rose"
(1991)
Next album = "Fisherman & His Wife"
(1991)

1989 album by American musician Van Dyke Parks. The album concerns the intersection between Japanese and American cultures, particularly as reflected in the competitive "Trade War" of the 1980s. The intersection between the two cultures is nowhere more obvious than in the album's first song, "America," an adaptation of "America the Beautiful" with numerous pentatonic shifts characteristic of Japanese music, played on a combination of standard Western instruments and traditional Japanese instruments, such as the biwa and the koto.

"Cowboy," a favorite among Parks fans, originally appears on this album.

Track listing

All music and lyrics by Van Dyke Parks, except as noted

#"America" ("public domain", "arranged and adapted by Van Dyke Parks") – 3:47
#"Tokyo Rose" – 5:08
#"Yankee Go Home" ("Features Vocal of Danny Hutton") – 6:27
#"Cowboy" – 4:35
#"Manzanar" – 6:02
#"Calypso" ("Features Vocal of Mari Iijima") – 4:27
#"White Chrysanthemum" – 4:00
#"Trade War" – 4:40
#"Out of Love" – 3:18
#"One Home Run" ("Japanese lyrics by Amy Furumoto") – 4:00

Personnel

Van Dyke Parks - bass
*Osamu Kitajima - biwa, koto
*Masakazu Yoshizawa - shakuhachi
*Bobby King - vocals
*Syd Straw - vocals
*Kathy Dalton - vocals
*Israel Baker - Concert Master
*Dennis Budimir - guitar
*Julie Christensen - vocals
*Terry Evans - vocals
*William "Bill" Greene - vocals
*Danny Hutton - vocals
*Hiromitsu Katada - narimono
*Buell Neidlinger - bass
*Akira Tana - drums
*Mike Watts - programming
*Arnold McCuller - vocals
*Mari Iijima - vocals
*Brian Otto - guitar
*Lisa Popeil - vocals

See also

*Tokyo Rose