Kiss Shite Hoshii

Infobox Single
Name = Kiss Shite Hoshii


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Artist = The Blue Hearts
Album = Young and Pretty [http://www.bluehearts.com/album2.html Young and Pretty] . bluehearts.com. Accessed February 22, 2008.]
A-side = "Kiss Shite Hoshii"
B-side = "Chain Gang"
Released = November 21, 1987 February 6, 2002 (rerelease)
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Genre = J-pop
Length = 9m17s
Label = Meldac
Writer = Hiroto Kōmoto
Producer = The Blue Hearts
Last single = "Linda Linda" (1987)
This single = "Kiss Shite Hoshii" (1987)
Next single = "Blue Hearts Theme" (1988)

nihongo|"Kiss Shite Hoshii"|キスしてほしい|I Want a Kiss was the third single by the Japanese band The Blue Hearts. It was released on November 21, 1987, the same time that the band's second album, "Young and Pretty", was released. Lyrics and music were written by Hiroto Kōmoto, the band's lead vocalist, and was arranged by The Blue Hearts. The track is 9m17s in length.

The B-side track on the single was "Chain Gang" (チェインギャング "Chein Gyangu"), which was written by Masatoshi Mashima, the band's guitarist.

Original Recording

The falsetto at the beginning of the song was done by Junnosuke Kawaguchi, the band's bassist. Though he generally speaks with a low voice, he sings in falsetto for a number of songs.

Related Media

The promotional video was an animated video. In the video, Kōmoto was a monkey, Mashima was a penguin, Kawaguchi was a pig and Tetsuya Kajiwara (the drummer) was a polar bear.

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