Vinyl Album - The New Christy Minstrels - Keep Japan Beautiful - Reprise

Vinyl Album

Artist:	The New Christy Minstrels
Title:	Keep Japan Beautiful
Label:	Reprise
Country:	Japan
Catalogue:	L-8070R
Barcode:	8070
Date:	17 Sep 1975
Format:	Promo Only
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns, 1 Wants
Price Guide:	Valuation Page
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	The New Christy Minstrels	Keep Japan Beautiful (英語盤)	Rick Hansen	Rate
A2	The New Christy Minstrels	Fight The Good Fight	Jim Andron	Rate
A3	The New Christy Minstrels	似顔絵	Takashi Matsumoto, Tatsushi Umegaki	8.0 Rate
A4	The New Christy Minstrels	Jambalaya	Hank Williams	Rate
A5	The New Christy Minstrels	Anymore (別九)	Scott Newell	Rate
B1	The New Christy Minstrels	It's A Small World	Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman	Rate
B2	The New Christy Minstrels	Coming Home	Bill Backer, Billy Davis, Rod McBrian	Rate
B3	The New Christy Minstrels	The Woman Inside (まこころ)	Jim Andron	Rate
B4	The New Christy Minstrels	Mississippi Rain	Leigh Reynolds	10.0 Rate
B5	The New Christy Minstrels	Keep Japan Beautiful (日本語盛)	Tatsuji Umegaki	Rate
B6	The New Christy Minstrels	For You We Sing	Unknown	Rate

Notes

Japan-only release of LP (Final known album by the Christies)
With obi, lyric insert.
Group lineup on this album is in the credits
Tracks and text on record in Japanese and English
Promotional record - not for sale

*B5 is the theme song to a very obscure, extremely short-lived radio program sponsored by Coca-Cola around 1974-75 most likely originating from Japan, “Sounds with Coke”

12-String Acoustic Guitar, Vocals – Jim Andron
Acoustic Guitar, Vocals – Ron Walz
Banjo, Vocals – Scott Newell*
Double Bass, Vocals – Tom Clift
Guitar, Vocals – Leigh Reynolds
Vocals, Tambourine – Karen Sparka , Lolita Afifi , Wendy Jacobs

Made By – Warner-Pioneer Corporation
Recorded At – Media Sound Studios, Tokyo
Produced At – Kyoto Musical Industries, Inc.
Produced For – Sounds with Coke – OBI Lyric insert
Printed By – Sounds with Coke – OBI Lyric insert

Tracks and text on record in Japanese and English
Original price in Japan: ¥2,200 (about $20 in USA now)

“Keep Japan Beautiful” by the 1975 edition of the New Christy Minstrels, this album was originally produced by Warner—Pioneer Corporation, and released on Reprise Records (Frank Sinatra’s label) in Japan, and Japan only back in September 1975, a one-shot final album by the last known edition of the group, little to no information is known at all about the LP, or the songs, the members of the group around that time, or if the LP even existed in the first place, it is all incredibly rare and obscure, and very few copies of the original and only format of the audio are known to exist (at least not in US) maybe in Japan... somewhere....

非売品 (Not for Sale)
Rights society: JASRAC

Images

Number: 1810613 THUMBNAIL Uploaded By: liammeister Edited By: Beggars Road Description: Front cover, members (in order from L—R) Scott Newell, Lolita Afifi, Wendy Jacobs, Tom Clift, Karen Sparka, Ron Walz, Leigh Reynolds, Jim Andron	Number: 1810614 Uploaded By: liammeister Edited By: Jace59 Description: Back cover, track names, text is almost entirely in Japanese (puzzle piece type cropped photos of group members recording this album live, in order from Top, to bottom, and clockwise) Jim Andron, Scott Newell, Lolita Afifi, Wendy Jacobs, Tom Clift, Leigh	Number: 1810615 Uploaded By: liammeister Edited By: Beggars Road Description: Side one	Number: 1810616 Uploaded By: liammeister Edited By: Beggars Road Description: Side two
Number: 1810617 Uploaded By: liammeister Edited By: Jace59 Description: OBI insert, side one lyrics	Number: 1810618 Uploaded By: liammeister Edited By: Jace59 Description: OBI insert, side two lyrics	Number: 1810619 Uploaded By: liammeister Edited By: Jace59 Description: what