10 YEARS BEST WE R&B

残り火 (Nokoribi; Embers) -eternal BED- is DOUBLE's 17th single, released on the 5th of December 2007. It serves as the sequel to her third single, BED, released 9 years before. It interpolates the bridge from BED, although the sample in the intro seems to instead be taken from BED (DOUBLES). It was the only single preceding the release of 10 YEARS BEST WE R&B, and has appeared on every compilation album released by DOUBLE since, including Ballad Collection Mellow, SINGLE BEST and DOUBLE LATEST SINGLE BEST. Read more on Last.fm.

At least two artists are known as Double: 1) The Swiss duo of Felix Haug (drums and keyboards) and Kurt Maloo (guitar and vocals), formerly part of a trio called Ping Pong, scored an international hit in 1986 with the atmospheric ballad “The Captain of Her Heart” (#16 US pop, #4 US AC, #8 UK, #17 Canada) from their debut album Blue. It would be their only substantial hit, with “Devils Ball,” the lead single from 1987 follow-up album Dou3le, stalling at #71 in the UK and failing to chart in the US. The duo split in 1989 and Haug died following a heart attack in 2004. 2) Double is the stage name for Japanese R&B singer Takako Hirasawa and previously was a duo consisting of Hirasawa and her sister, Sachiko. “Shake” was the duo’s highest charting single (#21 Japan). After the death of her sister in May 1999, Takako continued as Double and is regarded as one of the first artists to bring American-style R&B to Japan. She also portrays a sexualized image, a rarity for Japanese artists. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.