First Time (Morning Musume album)

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First Time

Studio album by

Morning Musume

Released

July 8, 1998

Recorded

1997–1998

Genre

Length

43:06

Label

Zetima

Producer

Tsunku

Morning Musume chronology

First Time
(1998)

Second Morning
(1999)

Singles from First Time

"Ai no Tane"
Released: November 3, 1997
"Morning Coffee"
Released: January 28, 1998
"Summer Night Town"
Released: May 27, 1998

First Time (ファーストタイム) is the first album from the J-pop idol girl group Morning Musume. It was released on July 8, 1998, and sold 310,290 copies. It featured only 1st and 2nd generation members had ten of their top selling songs from the beginning of their career, including "Ai no Tane" and "Morning Coffee".

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Good Morning"	4:07
2.	"Summer Night Town (サマーナイトタウン)"	3:48
3.	"Dō ni ka Shite Doyōbi (どうにかして土曜日, Do Something about Saturday)"	3:42
4.	"Morning Coffee (モーニングコーヒー)"	4:31
5.	"Yume no Naka (夢の中, Inside a Dream)"	5:00
6.	"Ai no Tane (愛の種, Seeds of Love)"	4:13
7.	"Wagamama (ワガママ, Selfishness)"	4:59
8.	"Mirai no Tobira (未来の扉, Door to the Future)"	4:11
9.	"Usotsuki Anta (ウソつきあんた, You Liar)"	4:02
10.	"Samishii Hi (さみしい日, Sad Day)"	4:33

Personnel

Natsumi Abe – vocals
Asuka Fukuda – vocals
Aya Ishiguro – vocals
Yuko Nakazawa – vocals
Kaori Iida – vocals
Mari Yaguchi – vocals (except on "Morning Coffee" and "Ai No Tane")
Sayaka Ichii – vocals (except on "Morning Coffee" and "Ai No Tane")
Kei Yasuda – vocals (except on "Morning Coffee" and "Ai No Tane")
Tsunku – songwriting (except on Track 6), tambourine (Track 9), backing vocal (Track 10)
Masahiro Inaba – electric guitar (Tracks 1,2,3,5,8)
Yasuaki Maejima – acoustic piano (Tracks 1,5,10), keyboards (Tracks 1,2,5), MIDI and drum machine programming (Tracks 1,2,3,5), bongo and wind chime (Track 5), Fender Rhodes piano (Track 9)
Gen Ogimi – percussion (Track 2)
Mansaku Kimura – drums (Track 3)
Masafumi Yokoyama – bass (Track 3)
Shiro Sasaki – trumpet (Track 3), flugelhorn (Track 5)
Futoshi Kobayashi – trumpet (Track 3)
Wakaba Kawai – trombone (Track 3)
Kan Nishida – bass trombone (Track 3)
Nobuyuki Mori – tenor sax (Track 3)
Yuichi Takahashi – 12-string guitar (Track 4), acoustic guitar (Tracks 4, 5), MIDI and drum machine programming (Tracks 3, 9)
Kiyoshi Tsuchiya – electric guitar (Track 4)
Shin Kōno – acoustic piano, keyboards (Track 4,6)
Tetsutaro Sakurai – MIDI and drum programming (Track 4), backing vocals (Track 6)
Satoshi Sano – trombone (Track 5)
Kinbara Group – strings (Track 5)
Yuji Yokozeni – drums (Track 6, 7)
Masahiko Rokukawa – bass (Track 6)
Kiyoshi Tsuchiya – electric guitar (Track 6)
Hitoshi Watanabe – bass (Track 7)
Shunsuke Kurō – electric guitar, MIDI and drum machine programming (Track 7)
Ryuosuke Imai – MIDI and drum programming, turntable (Track 8)
Noriyasu Kawamura – drums (Track 9)
Chiharu Mikuzuki – bass (Track 9)
Takashi Masuzaki – electric and acoustic guitars (Track 9)

Production

Engineers: Kazumi Matsui, Taakahisa Yuzawa, Takeshi Yanagisawa, Takahiro Suzuki, Yoshihide Mikami, Takeshi Inaba, Akimi Tani
Assistant Engineers: Ryo Wakizaka, Shinosuki Kobayahi, Hiroyuki Akita, Tomoyuki Niitsu, Kentaro Kikuchi, Hisashi Nagayama
Mastering Engineer: Mitsuo Koike

External links

First Time entry on the Up-Front Works official website

v t e Morning Musume
Erina Ikuta Sakura Oda Miki Nonaka Maria Makino Akane Haga Reina Yokoyama Rio Kitagawa Homare Okamura Mei Yamazaki Rio Sakurai Haruka Inoue Ako Yumigeta
Former members	Asuka Fukuda Aya Ishiguro Sayaka Ichii Yuko Nakazawa Maki Goto Kei Yasuda Natsumi Abe Nozomi Tsuji Ai Kago Kaori Iida Mari Yaguchi Rika Ishikawa Asami Konno Makoto Ogawa Hitomi Yoshizawa Miki Fujimoto Koharu Kusumi Eri Kamei Jun Jun Lin Lin Ai Takahashi Risa Niigaki Aika Mitsui Reina Tanaka Sayumi Michishige Riho Sayashi Kanon Suzuki Haruka Kudō Haruna Ogata Haruna Iikubo Masaki Satō Chisaki Morito Kaede Kaga Mizuki Fukumura Ayumi Ishida
Studio albums	First Time Second Morning 3rd: Love Paradise 4th Ikimasshoi! No. 5 Ai no Dai 6 Kan Rainbow 7 7.5 Fuyu Fuyu Morning Musume Mini! Sexy 8 Beat Platinum 9 Disc 10 My Me Fantasy! Jūichi 12, Smart 13 Colorful Character 14 Shō: The Message 15 Thank You, Too Hatachi no Morning Musume 16th: That's J-pop
Cover albums	Cover You
Compilations	Best! Morning Musume 1 Best! Morning Musume 2 Early Single Box Morning Musume All Singles Complete: 10th Anniversary Morning Musume Zen Single Coupling Collection The Best! ~Updated Morning Musume~ Morning Musume '14 Coupling Collection 2 Best! Morning Musume 20th Anniversary
Sub-groups	Tanpopo Petit Moni Mini-Moni Morning Musume Sakuragumi Morning Musume Otomegumi Morning Musume Tanjō 10nen Kinentai
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