Tropical Dandy
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| Released | June 25, 1975 | |||
| Recorded | Crown Studio Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo | |||
| Genre | Jazz fusion, exotica | |||
| Length | 34:22 | |||
| Label | PANAM, CROWN | |||
| Producer | Haruomi Hosono | |||
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Tropical Dandy is Haruomi Hosono's second solo album.
This album begins the tropical style which Hosono features very prevalently in the beginning of his career in following albums such as Bon Voyage co. and Paraiso. Also, it features performances from "Caramel Mama" (who had, by this point, changed their name to "Tin Pan Alley"). This album was reissued as part of a box set with bonus tracks taken from Tin Pan Alley albums by Crown decades later.[1][2][3]
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| Source | Rating |
| The Wire | favorable[4] |
Track listing
All tracks are written by Haruomi Hosono, except where noted.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Chattanooga Choo Choo" | Mack Gordon (English lyrics), Aloysio de Oliveira (Portuguese lyrics), Harry Warren (music) | 2:49 |
| 2. | "Hurricane Dorothy" | 5:46 | |
| 3. | "Silk Road" (絹街道 Kinukaidō) | 3:32 | |
| 4. | "Tropical Night" (熱帯夜 Nettaiya) | 4:55 | |
| 5. | "Peking Duck" (北京DUCK Pekin Duck) | 2:36 | |
| 6. | "Drifting Chronicle" (漂流記 Hyōryūki) | 3:08 | |
| 7. | "Honey Moon" | 2:37 | |
| 8. | "Three o'Clock Lullaby" (三時の子守唄 Sanji no Komori Uta) | 2:31 | |
| 9. | "Three o'Clock Lullaby" (三時の子守唄 Sanji no Komori Uta) (instrumental) | 2:26 | |
| 10. | "Drifting Chronicle" (漂流記 Hyōryūki) (instrumental) | 4:02 |
| No. | Title | Originally from | Length |
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| 11. | "Choo Choo Gatagoto'75" (CHOO CHOO ガタゴト'75) | Caramel Mama, 1975 | 3:17 |
| 12. | "Yellow Magic Carnival" | Caramel Mama, 1975 | 3:34 |
| 13. | "Rose and Beast" (薔薇と野獣 Bara to Yajū) | Tin Pan Alley 2, 1977 | 4:13 |
| 14. | "Ballad of Aya" (アヤのバラード Aya no Barādo) | Caramel Mama, 1975 | 1:37 |
| 15. | "Theme of "Evening Primrose" Part 1〜Drifting Chronicle" ("宵待草"のテーマ Part 1〜漂流記 "Yoimachigusa" no Tēma Part 1〜Hyōryūki) | Yoimachigusa (soundtrack), 1975 | 4:09 |
| 16. | "Theme of "Evening Primrose" Part 2〜Drifting Chronicle" ("宵待草"のテーマ Part 2〜漂流記 "Yoimachigusa" no Tēma Part 2〜Hyōryūki) | Yoimachigusa (soundtrack), 1975 | 1:36 |
Album cover
The album's cover is a parody of the sailor-themed packaging of Player's Navy Cut cigarettes, similar to the 1969 Procol Harum album, A Salty Dog. The quotation marks around Hosono's surname refer to the "medium" version of the cigarette. The cover also portrays a ship resembling the RMS Titanic, which Hosono's grandfather, Masabumi, infamously escaped the sinking of on her maiden voyage.
