As many fans already know, this year is being billed as Don Wilson’s last Japan tour. In conjunction with the tour, Universal Japan is planning to release a number of CDs as part of a retrospective on The Ventures’ career in Japan. The first 5 CDs will be released at the end of May 2015, and are a compilation of all (or almost all) the singles put out over the years. The last time these were available was over 20 years ago. This release is a box-set including a CD-ROM with the cover artwork from tbe original singles. Needless to say, this is probably a limited release item. The track listings are as follows:

Disc 1:

Walk Don’t Run

Yellow Bird

Pipeline

Lonely Sea

Diamond Head

House of the Rising Sun

Slaughter on 10th Avenue

Rap City

Kickstand

Candy Apple Racer

Caravan

Bulldog

Mariner No. 4

Bird Rockers

Cruel Sea

The Fugitive

Swinging Creeper

Pedal Pusher

Lullaby of the Leaves

Apache

Loco-Motion

Limbo Rock

Telstar

The Lonely Bull

Disc 2:

More

Runaway

Walk Right In

Sukiyaki

10 Seconds to Heaven (Paradise A Go Go)

Journey to the Stars

Feel So Fine (vocal)

Angel (vocal)

Jingle Bells

White Christmas

Go Go Slow

A Go Go Guitar

A Taste of Honey

No Matter What Shape

Secret Agent Man

007-0011

Stop Action

Whittier Boulevard

Kimito Itsumademo

Yozora No Hoshi

Batman

Man From U.N.C.L.E. (Napoleon Solo Theme)

Out of Limits

Penetration

Disc 3:

Ginza Lights (Futari No Ginza)

8 Miles High

Escape

Go

Blue Star

Comin’ Home Baby

Blue Sunset

Up Up and Away

Pied Piper (vocal)

La Bamba (Live in Japan)

Green Hornet Theme

Green Grass

Fuzzy and Wild

Wild and Wooly

Let’s Go!

Sleepwalk

Mod E ast

Wack Wack Song

Hokkaido Skies (Kitagune no Aoizora)

Tokyo Night

Reflections

Western Union

Blue Chateau

Hallelujah

Disc 4:

Endless Dream (Psychedelic Dream)

Vibrations

El Greco

Endless Summer Theme

On The Road

Happy Together

Kagayaku Hoshi Ni

Max A Go Go

Bombay Duck

Black Sand Beach

Summer Time Blues

Flights of Fantasy

Walk Don’t Run / Land of 1000 Dances (medley)

Sunny

Choo Choo Train

The Horse

Fire

Born to be Wild

Hawaii Five-O

Soul Breeze

Aquarius / Let the Sunshine In (medley)

Games People Play

A Summer Place

Summer Love

Disc 5:

Kyoto No Koi (Kyoto Doll)

On a Narrow Street

Swan Lake

Reflections in a Palace Lake

The Mercenary Theme

The Wanderer

Runaway (vocal)

Sally (vocal)

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

More

Kern County Line

Paint It Black

Kyoto Bojo

Wakareta Hito-To

Everybody’s Talkin’

By the Time I Get to Phoenix

Manchurian Beat (Sasarai no Guitar)

Sugar Sugar

Tora Tora Tora

Katana

Strangers In Midosuji

Naruto (Thunder Cloud)

Misty Night

Nagoya Express