NAMI & MOSEUM SONS: THE ALBUM BEHIND THE HIT

The jacket carries two names: FRANCO ROMANO BAND & NAMI in English and “Nami & Moseum Sons” in Korean. Before the familiar image of Nami as a fully formed solo star, one female lead singer and five instrumentalists met on a single record.

Universal Records manufactured UAL-0028 on 1 October 1979. Alongside “Eternal Friend,” later inseparable from Nami's name, it holds Korean pop songs, adaptations of international hits and album tracks that are now barely mentioned.

One lead singer, five players

The original back cover lists Nami as LEAD VOCAL. Franco Romano is credited on keyboards; Sebastiano Tringali on trumpet and vocals; Paolo Laino on guitar and vocals; Gary Esmile on bass and vocals; and Adriano Landini on drums and vocals. Jang Se-yong receives the album-level arrangement, conducting and construction credit.

COMPOSER beside Romano's name describes his role within the band; each song's printed credit must still be read separately. “Eternal Friend” names Jang as lyricist and Romano as composer, while “Walking Together” clearly reads “translated lyrics by Jang Se-yong / foreign composition.”

Begin with the names and roles
that survive on the record itself.

Later accounts disagree about the members' nationality and the precise story of Nami joining the group. Without sufficient independent contemporary evidence, this article leaves those claims aside and follows the six performers and Jang's production role printed on the LP.

Korean pop and adapted disco on one record

Side A begins with Jang's “Love and Hate,” followed by “Y.M.C.A,” “You Don't Know This Heart,” “Come Back,” and “Light Steps,” subtitled Funk With A Big Foot.

Side B holds “Genghis Khan,” “Eternal Friend,” “Walking Together,” “Happiness” and “My Country.” Korean pop, global disco repertoire, original songs and adaptations coexist without partitions. The combination may feel unusual now, yet that mixture is precisely the album's character—and a surviving view of popular music in 1979.

The current Bugs digital edition differs from the original sequence. It places “As Time Goes By” where the LP had “Genghis Khan” and offers nine tracks without “My Country.” The physical A/B-side printing therefore matters more than modern track numbers when reading this record.

Side B, track three: “Walking Together”

This story begins not with the hit but with “Walking Together.” It sits third on the original B side and runs 3:56. The Korean credit uses the term for translated lyrics, not ordinary original lyric writing.

Its parenthetical English title is “Don't Hold Back.” The title and English lyrics printed on the Korean jacket match the record released by American disco duo Chanson in 1978. The original single credits David Williams and James Jamerson Jr. as writers and producers, with Benjamin Wright arranging.

The most accurate description is therefore a Korean-language adaptation of Chanson's song, with Korean words by Jang Se-yong. No production document establishes whether every backing part was rerecorded or whether any original master material was retained, so the article does not draw that boundary from sound alone.

A transitional face behind the hit

“Eternal Friend” continued to be sung as a symbol of Nami's beginning. Hear the complete record, however, and this period no longer looks like the work of an already finished solo star. Nami is a band's lead singer, moving between Korean song and adapted disco.

From “Love and Hate” through “Eternal Friend” to “Walking Together,” the LP returns not as background to one famous song, but as an independent work where languages and rhythms cross.