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Kasuga was one of the first Japanese companies to begin producing and selling copies of guitars from the big US brands, primarily those from Gibson but also Fender, starting in 1972. [11] They sold these replica guitars under their own RK Herby and Heerby brands as well as producing them for other companies — Guild sold Kasuga-made guitars ...
Ms. Vocalist is the ninth studio album by American singer-songwriter Debbie Gibson.Released on November 3, 2010 exclusively in Japan by Sony Music Japan, the album features Gibson's English-language covers of popular male-oriented Japanese songs.
Orville by Gibson (オービルbyギブソン) or Orville (オービル) was a brand of guitars that was managed by the Gibson Guitar Corporation for the Japanese market during the late 1980s and most of the 1990s.
Gibson solely produced the record and wrote all but one song. She largely recorded the album with a live orchestra. [4] Receiving mixed reviews, the album was a commercial failure, failing to enter the Billboard 200 or Cashbox albums chart. It did enter the top-fifty of the Oricon Albums Chart in Japan, hitting number 46.
The Lotus L670B is often cited as being made in Japan but was a Samick-produced instrument, that is identical to the Hondo H-702 All-Star, and the Mako Traditional Series TB-2. The model is a direct copy of the 1980-1982/3 Fender "Bullet"(MIA and MIJ) other than having switches instead of buttons, and a different headstock shape. There were no ...
Japanese editions, Japanese versions, and Japanese imports refer to the domestic pressings of any foreign-released record in Japan. Most Western music sold in Japan is pressed and distributed domestically. [1] These releases typically feature one or more bonus tracks not included on standard pressings of the same record elsewhere.
This is a list of the top-selling albums in Japan, based on data compiled by Oricon. Prior to January 1987, the domestic albums chart was separated into LPs (created in 1970), cassette tapes (introduced in 1974) and compact discs (launched in 1985), until their unification, which remains the current form.
The product line included Fender- and Gibson-styled instruments. Some of their instruments were equipped with copies of Bill Lawrence rail humbucker pickups. Internet users indicate that in the early years, Memphis was a house brand manufactured by Matsumoku Industrial of Nagoya, Japan. There is some consensus in the online guitar community ...