arrangers:
- link: artist/50548
  names:
    en: Katsunori Ishida
    ja: 石田かつのり
catalog: CX-7227
categories:
- Publication
category: Publication
classification: Vocal, Original Work
composers:
- link: artist/50548
  names:
    en: Katsunori Ishida
    ja: 石田かつのり
- link: artist/26433
  names:
    en: Katsumi Kobayashi
    ja: 小林克己
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discs:
- disc_length: '21:49'
  name: Disc 1
  tracks:
  - names:
      English: Prologue~Nice to Meet You~
    track_length: '1:38'
  - names:
      English: The Sound of Your Express
    track_length: '7:38'
  - names:
      English: Blond Breeze
    track_length: '5:12'
  - names:
      English: Dark-Blue Eyes
    track_length: '5:32'
  - names:
      English: '''Cause I Love You. Monsieur'
    track_length: '8:57'
  - names:
      English: China Romance
    track_length: '4:50'
  - names:
      English: Gypsy Road
    track_length: '5:27'
  - names:
      English: See You Again~Touring Express~
    track_length: '2:35'
link: album/63487
lyricists:
- link: artist/8880
  names:
    en: Kayoko Fuyumori
    ja: 冬杜花代子
media_format: Vinyl (12" 33&frac13; rpm)
meta:
  added_date: 2016-12-02T06:48
  edited_date: 2025-06-05T19:38
  fetched_date: 2026-01-03T19:14
  ttl: 86400
  visitors: 2598
name: Touring Express
names:
  en: Touring Express
  ja: ツーリング・エクスプレス
  ja-latn: Touring Express
notes: '1st image album for the shoujo manga ''Touring Express"

  Original Works by Masumi Kawaso

  Lyrics by Kayoko Fuyumori (02, 05, 07)

  Composed by Katsumi Kobayashi (02, 05, 07, 08)

                       Katsunori Ishida (01, 03, 04, 06)

  Arranger: Katsunori Ishida (all tracks)

  Vocals by Bobby (02, 05)

                 Yoji Saito (07)

  Performed by: Ishida-Express I

  Ishida-Express I are:

  Drums: Noriyuki Hirose

  E. Bass: Shogo Kindaichi

  E. Guitar: Teiji Mihata

                  Masaharu Takashima

                  Hiroshi Imaizumi

  Piano: Hajime Ueshiba

  Wood Bass: Kunimitsu Inaba

                    Yasuo Arakawa

  Trumpet: Shin Kazuhara

                 荒木敏彦

                 Nobuo Kato

  Trombone: Eiji Arai

                   Yasuo Hirauchi

                   Sumio Okada

  A. Sax: Hidefumi Toki

  T. Sax: Kiyoshi Saito

  Flute: Yukio Etoh

            Mitsuru Soma

  Oboe: Yoichi Yamamoto

  Corn: Hiroshi Matsuzaki

            Koji Yamaguchi

  Strings: Akira Uchida Group

  Solo Violin: Hiroki Tamaki

  Solo Harmonica: Nobuo Yagi

  Solo Flute: Masami Nakagawa

  Solo Trumpet: Hiroshi Fukumura

  Scat: Kazuko Kawashima

  All Synthesizer: Katsunori Ishida

  Synthe Operation: Yuji Oyamada

  Recorded at Columbia Studio in May.

  Recording Engineer: Kazuhiro Tokieda*

  Assistant Engineer: Kunihiko Aoto*

                               Fumio Hasegawa*

                               Yuzo Toki*

  Mastering Engineer: Katsuaki Uno*

       (*Nippon Columbia)

  Special Thanks to

  Masumi Kawaso

  HAKUSENSHA (Hana to Yume) Editorial Department

  中村亨 (HAKUSENSHA)

  Snufkin Company

  Smash

  ソフィー

  Toshitsu

  Liner Notes: Masumi Kawaso, 中村亨

  Illustration: Masumi Kawaso'
organizations:
- &id001
  link: org/2192
  names:
    en: Columbia
    ja: Columbia
    ja-latn: Columbia
  role: label
- link: org/35
  names:
    en: NIPPON COLUMBIA CO., LTD.
    ja: 日本コロムビア株式会社
    ja-latn: NIPPON COLUMBIA CO., LTD.
  role: manufacturer
performers:
- link: artist/53696
  names:
    en: Ishida-Express I
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products:
- names:
    en: Touring Express
publish_format: Commercial
publisher: *id001
related:
- catalog: CX-7267
  date: '1986-03-21'
  link: album/63496
  names:
    en: Touring Express II ~Russian Express-hen~
    ja: ツーリング・エクスプレスII ～ロシアン・エクスプ...
    ja-latn: Touring Express II ~Russian Express-hen~
  type: print
release_date: '1985-06-21'
release_events: []
release_price:
  currency: JPY
  price: 2500.0
reprints:
- catalog: CAY-732
  link: album/63488
  note: Cassette, Jun 21, 1985
- catalog: 32C35-7646
  link: album/63494
  note: CD, Oct 21, 1985
- catalog: COCC-9620
  link: album/63493
  note: CD, Mar 01, 1992
- catalog: COCC-12347
  link: album/63490
  note: CD, Feb 21, 1995
- catalog: COCC-72217
  link: album/63489
  note: CD, Sep 21, 2005
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vocals:
- link: artist/8793
  names:
    en: Bobby
    ja: ボビー
- link: artist/34088
  names:
    en: Yoji Saito
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