[1987] Yoko Oginome - Non-Stopper "Off-Vocal" Special (Full Karaoke Album)

Tracklist: 1. Dancing Hero (Eat You Up) —Modern Version— [0:00] 2. Dance Beat wa Yoake made [4:04] 3. Flamingo in Paradise (Dance Mix) [7:42] 4. Venus [11:41] 5. Melting Point [15:19] 6. Roppongi Junjouha [19:10] 7. D2D [22:38] 8. Nonstop Dancer [26:56] 9. Cha-Cha-Cha [31:25] 10. Hitomi ni I Love You [35:01] 11. Wangan Taiyozoku [38:48] Arranged by: Koji Makaino (1) Akira Nishihira (2, 4, 9, 11) Motoki Funayama (3) Shiro Sagisu (5, 10) Hiroshi Shinkawa (6, 7) Nobuyuki Shimizu (8) Performed by Victor Orchestra Ripped/scanned by me, scan fixes by Smithdanigans Released in 1987, this contains official karaoke versions of all the songs featured in Yoko Oginome's "Non-Stopper" album—track 11 is a karaoke version of a track from one of her singles. This album's existence caught me by surprise, I won't lie! It's not often that a vocal album has a karaoke-only version released later—at least in Japan. Maybe it's more common than I think but I personally haven't seen any repeated instances of it that often. Anyways, how did I track this down? A while back I collaborated with Inka-Subs to get the Bari Bari Densetsu anime properly translated into English for the first time (which you should check out if you haven't yet...!). "Nonstop Dancer"—track 8 on this release—was used as the ending theme song for Episode 2 of the OVA, which I began re-listening on frequent occasions for a while due to how catchy it was 😁 I forgot how I discovered this, but I saw that there was a karaoke version of the track—and from there I ended up discovering the existence of the karaoke-only version of the "Non-Stopper" album, the same very album that the ending theme song shows up in. Even though the album's existence is catalogued on Wikipedia, copies for this album appeared to be VERY scarce online and just rare in general, until I stumbled upon a cheap copy on Amazon JP. Naturally, I took advantage of the situation while I could. Unfortunately I found out after I bought it that the karaoke tracks were already remastered and included as bonus tracks on a later remaster of the vocal version of "Non-Stopper" 🥲... Despite this, I'm still choosing to rip it and upload these since nobody has uploaded the karaoke tracks onto YT for whatever reason. They're not streaming either. Also, OG 80s CDs and remastered versions tend to have different mastering, so I figured I'd put this up for people who generally prefer 80s mastering. Enjoy!!