Joe Onodera - 挑戦者 -CHALLENGER- (Raw Vinyl Rip / 80s Japanese Private Pressing)

Tracklist: A1 ジュリアン [0:09] A2 My Road [5:14] A3 想い出 セピア色に染めて [11:00] A4 想い続けて [16:35] A5 挑戦者 -Challenger- [23:39] B1 Fly Away [28:18] B2 傷だらけのWing [32:52] B3 ジェネレーションRock 'n Roll [39:47] B4 Heart To Heart [44:14] B5 See You Again [48:45] Credits Bass, Chorus – Akihiko Sujino Directed By [Sound] – Kazuo Noguchi Drums, Chorus – Mitsugu Tabe Keyboards, Programmed By [Computer] – Kazuo Noguchi Percussion – Noboru Shimada Producer – Joe Onodera Recorded By, Mixed By – Masamitsu Miyazawa Saxophone, Chorus – Albert H. Mimaki Vocals – Joe Onodera Ripped/scanned by me. Scan edits made by a friend who wishes to remain anonymous. If you're here from Twitter you probably know what this is. If not... This is the only known vocal album by Joe Onodera---the first & oldest child of Shotaro Ishinomori. Yes, THAT Ishinomori. This privately-pressed LP was released while Joe was still in college. Every single online biography I found for this dude completely neglects to mention that he did this album---there was one I came across that did mention his involvement in musical activities while he was in college, but even THEN---still completely omitted. Also worth mentioning that before I bought my copy there was no auction history for this at all. No purchase history either. Only reason I bought this was because the auction I got this from listed it as..."city pop" of all things 🙃 Given its background, is it interesting? Yes. Is it dumb rare? Hell yeah. Is it good? FUCK no lmfao. Thank god I only got this for $10. Anyways I still feel this should deserve an upload online for everybody else to check out, otherwise it'd probably fade away and disappear from history. I'll get back to this rip in the future and digitally restore it whenever I can. Enjoy...I guess?