On March 10, 1981, “Kitty Records” label released “The Rainbow Goblins”, the ninth Masayoshi Takanaka studio album. It was recorded in 1981, at “Kitty Izu Studio”, “Polydor Studio” and “KRS Studio”, and was produced by Masayoshi Takanaka.

Personnel:

• Masayoshi Takanaka — guitar, arrangements
• Kiyosumi Ishikawa — keyboards
• Izumi “Mimi” Kobayashi – keyboards
• Akihiro Tanaka – bass
• Masahiro Miyazaki – drums
• Shigeru Inoue – drums
• Shuichi “PONTA” Murakami – drums
• Susumu Yamazaki – percussion
• Makoto Kimura – percussion
• Yuki Sugawara – percussion
• Koji Satsuma – saxophone
• Roy Garner – narrator
• Katz Hoshi – string arrangements
• Masahiro Taira, Susumu Yamazaki, Takashi Shimizu – engineer
• Susumu Ohno, Ken Takagi – mixing
• Hidenori Taga = mixing assistant
• Tsunemi Morimoto – cover art, design
• Kenji Miura, Yoichi Nagata – photography
• Akira Inoue – production coordinator

Track listing:

All track by Masayoshi Takanaka, except where noted.

1. Prologue
2. Once Upon a Song
3. Seven Goblins
4. The Sunset Valley
5. The Moon Rose – lyrics by Choux Suzuki
6. Soon
7. Magical Night Light
8. Rainbow Paradise – lyrics by Masayoshi Takanaka
9. Thunderstorm
10. Rising Arch
11. Just Chuckle – lyrics by Choux Suzuki
12. Rainbow Was Reborn
13. Plumed Bird
14. You Can Never Come To This Place