| "Cha-La Head-Cha-La" | ||||
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| Single by Hironobu Kageyama | ||||
| from the album Dragon Ball Z Hit Song Collection | ||||
| A-side | "Cha-La Head-Cha-La" | |||
| B-side | "Detekoi Tobikiri Zenkai Power!" | |||
| Released | May 1, 1989 | |||
| Genre | Electronic rock | |||
| Length | 3:17 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Composer(s) | Chiho Kiyooka | |||
| Lyricist(s) | Yukinojo Mori | |||
| Hironobu Kageyama singles chronology | ||||
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"Cha-La Head-Cha-La" (Japanese: チャラ・ヘッチャラ, Hepburn: Chara Hetchara) is a song by Japanese musician and composer Hironobu Kageyama, released as his sixteenth single. It is best known as the first opening theme song of the Dragon Ball Z anime television series. Columbia released the single on vinyl, cassette and mini CD on May 1, 1989. It is coupled with the first Dragon Ball Z closing theme, "Detekoi Tobikiri Zenkai Power!" (でてこいとびきりZENKAIパワー!, Detekoi Tobikiri Zenkai Pawā!) performed by Manna.
"Cha-La Head-Cha-La" opened the first 199 episodes of the television series and the first nine films of the film adaptations. The single has sold 1.7 million copies. It has been re-recorded in many other languages, with an English version performed by Kageyama himself that was released on his third greatest hits album entitled Hironobu Kageyama Best Album 3: Mixture in 1996.[1]
- ^ "Hironobu Kageyama Best Album 3: Mixture" (in Japanese). Yahoo Music Japan. Archived from the original on July 15, 2012. Retrieved September 11, 2008.