Hiroshi Kamayatoo (かまやつひろし - often transliterated as Hiroshi Kamayatsu) was a Japanese singer, guitarist and actor who died in 2017. After being in the groups The Spiders and Vodka Collins, he pursued a solo career after 1970, though teamed up with a group of Japanese and American musicians under the banner One Night Stand Brothers for this 1986 album, recorded in San Francisco.
Heavily influenced by the Rockabilly style, One Night Stand Brothers ends, however, with a track that has a suitably West-Coast vibe for one named after the location of the recording studios - Sausalito, in Marin County CA - just over the Golden Gate bridge from San Francisco. Most of the album is sung in Japanese, but the English lyrics "A dream like summer's day in my memories there shines the lights of Sausalito" provide a gentle foil to the more up tempo rock'n'roll numbers.
The album - mastered by none other than Bernie Grundman - was released on the Japanese Polydor K.K. label - originally a joint venture between Deutsche Grammophon and Fuji Electric before eventually been subsumed into Universal Music. On the video are the five tracks of side 2 (listed below along with the lyrics).
Cartridge: Shelter 5000 MC
Phono amp: Graham Slee Accession MC with Enigma power supply
Turntable: CTC Classic 301 / SME M2-12-R
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