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Tetsurō Oda

{{Short description|Japanese composer (born 1958)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2020}}

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Tetsurō Oda

| image =

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| birth_name = {{nihongo|Tetsurō Hamada|濱田 哲郎}}

| alias = Eddy Blues, Tetsu

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1958|03|11}}

| birth_place = Tokyo, Japan

| death_date =

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| instrument = {{flatlist|

  • Vocal
  • guitar
  • keyboard}}

| genre = Pop

| occupation = {{flatlist|

  • Composer
  • record producer
  • singer-songwriter}}

| years_active = 1978–present

| label = {{flatlist|

| associated_acts = {{flatlist|

  • Tetsuro Oda and the 9th Image
  • Spinach Power
  • Don't Look Back
  • MS Machine
  • Tough Banana
  • Nagisa no All Stars
  • Why}}

| website = {{URL|www.t-oda.jp/}}

{{URL|www.facebook.com/tetsurooda.tscorp/}}

}}

{{Infobox YouTube personality

| name = Tetsuro Oda

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| channel_display_name = 織田哲郎 T's Corporation

| years_active = 2016 -

| subscribers = 122k

| views = 19,221,668 million times

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{{nihongo|Tetsurō Oda|織田 哲郎|Oda Tetsurō|born March 11, 1958}} is a Japanese composer, record producer, and singer-songwriter. Oda is the third best-selling composer in the history of the Japanese singles chart, with over 40 million units being sold.

Biography

Between years 1978-1979, he was member of the rock band Why along with Kenji Kitajima, following frontman of the band Fence of Defense and brother of the musical producer Daiko Nagato, Shuusuke Nagato.{{cite web|url=http://www.sonymusicshop.jp/detail.asp?goods=DYCL000000082|title=Why+1 (WHY)|website=sonymusicshop|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090322182216/http://www.sonymusicshop.jp/detail.asp?goods=DYCL000000082 |archive-date=March 22, 2009 |language=ja}} Between years 1980-1981, he was member of another rock band "Oda Tetsurō&9th IMAGE".{{cite web|url=http://www.aspect.co.jp/oda2007/interview/08.html |title=織田哲郎ロングインタビュー第8回｜織田哲郎Project2007 |date=2007-06-13 |work=aspect|accessdate=2024-01-03}}

Oda has embarked on his own solo career since the 1981. As a recording artist, he is best known for the chart-topping single "Itsumademo Kawaranu Ai o", which was released in 1992.{{cite web|url=http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/music/78154/|script-title=ja:織田哲郎、「いつまでも変わらぬ愛を」配信開始|work=Oricon Style|publisher=Oricon|date=July 14, 2010|access-date=January 24, 2011|language=ja}}

Oda gained prominence as a songwriter in Japan during the late 1980s. He composed over 50 top-ten hit singles on the Japanese Oricon chart during the 1990s, including 12 that have sold over 1 million copies.{{Cite book| last = Okamoto | first = Satoshi| title = Single Chart Book: Complete Edition 1968–2010 | year = 2011 | publisher = Oricon Entertainment | location=Roppongi, Tokyo | language = ja | isbn = 978-4871310888}} At the commercial peak of his career, Oda produced a string of popular hit songs with artists such as Zard, [ Tube [Wands (band)|Wands]], Deen, and Field of View.{{cite web|url=http://www.barks.jp/news/?id=1000037166|title=J-POPの歴史を作った、織田哲郎とビーイングでの二人三脚|author=Saida, Sai|work=Barks News|date=January 17, 2008|access-date=January 24, 2011|language=ja}} He also discovered and collaborated with Nanase Aikawa, one of the best-selling Japanese female pop icons from the latter half of the 1990s.{{cite web|url=https://www.sponichi.co.jp/entertainment/news/2023/02/12/kiji/20230212s00041000334000c.html|title=相川七瀬 芸能界入りの秘話告白 プロデュサー・織田哲郎との運命の出会い「すごい遠回りをして」|website=sponichi|date=February 12, 2023|access-date=January 3, 2024|language=ja}}

In 1990, Oda won the 32nd Japan Record Award for the song "Odoru Pompokorin", co-written by Momoko Sakura and performed by B.B. Queens.{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080615043003/http://www.jacompa.or.jp/rekishi/d1990.htm|script-title=ja:第21回日本レコード大賞 |url=http://www.jacompa.or.jp/rekishi/d1990.htm|trans-title=The 32nd Japan Record Awards Winners|work=jacompa.jp|publisher=Japanese Composers Association|language=ja|archive-date=June 15, 2008|access-date=March 3, 2012}} Oda has been the third best-selling composer in the history of the Japanese singles chart, which started in 1968, just behind Kyōhei Tsutsumi and Tetsuya Komuro. Accumulated sales of his compositions released as singles have been estimated at over 40 million units as of 2020.{{cite web|url=https://www.joqr.co.jp/qr/article/75977/|title=4000万枚超のシングルを売り上げた織田哲郎の意外すぎる幼少期とは？「油絵ばっかり描いてました」|website=joqr|date=December 23, 2022|access-date=January 3, 2024|language=ja}}{{cite web|url=https://life.saisoncard.co.jp/health/beauty/post/akagi05/|title=ソロデビュー40周年・織田哲郎さんのかっこいい歳の重ね方「今が一番マシと思えることが大事」|website=saisoncard|date=May 10, 2022|access-date=January 3, 2024|language=ja}}

In 2000, he was attacked in an attempted robbery in Madrid, Spain, where he was visiting for sight seeing. His neck was squeezed from behind so hard that his vocal cords were damaged and his singing voice disappeared.{{cite web|url=http://www.aspect.co.jp/oda2007/interview/20.html |script-title=ja:織田哲郎ロングインタビュー第20回 |work=織田哲郎Project 2007-2008 |access-date=May 17, 2019 |language=ja}} After a year of rehabilitation, Oda resumed a live tour in 2002.{{cite web|url=http://www.aspect.co.jp/oda2007/interview/21.html |script-title=ja:織田哲郎ロングインタビュー第21回 |work=織田哲郎Project 2007-2008 |access-date=May 17, 2019 |language=ja}}

Discography

=Studio albums=

class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:19em;" | Title

! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:19em;" | Album details

! scope="col" | Peak chart positions

scope="col" style="width:2.9em;font-size:90%;" | JPN
Oricon
{{cite web|url=https://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/221620/products/|title=織田哲郎の作品|website=Oricon|language= ja|date=30 December 2007|access-date=27 December 2023}}
scope="row" | Voice

|

| -

scope="row" | New Morning

|

  • Released: 21 May 1984
  • Label: CBS Sony
  • Formats: LP, CD

| -

scope="row" | Night Waves

|

  • Released: 28 August 1985
  • Label: CBS Sony
  • Formats: LP, CD

| -

scope="row" | Life

|

  • Released: 21 April 1986
  • Label: CBS Sony
  • Formats: LP, CD

| -

scope="row" | Ships

|

  • Released: 26 August 1987
  • Label: CBS Sony
  • Formats: LP, CD

| -

scope="row" | Season

|

  • Released: 21 May 1988
  • Label: CBS Sony
  • Formats: LP, CD

| -

scope="row" | Candle in the Rain

|

  • Released: 21 March 1989
  • Label: CBS Sony
  • Formats: CD

| -

scope="row" | {{nihongo|Itsuka Subete no Tozasareta Tobira ga Hirakareru Hi Made|いつかすべての閉ざされた扉が開かれる日まで}}

|

  • Released: 21 April 1990
  • Label: Platz
  • Formats: CD

|72

scope="row" | Endless Dream

|

  • Released: 24 June 1992
  • Label: BMG Victor
  • Formats: CD

|9

scope="row" | T

|

  • Released: 21 May 1993
  • Label: Rhizome
  • Formats: CD

|35

scope="row" | One Night

|

|100

scope="row" | W Face

|

  • Released: 30 October 2013
  • Label: King
  • Formats: CD

|106

=EPs=

class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:19em;" | Title

! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:19em;" | Album details

! scope="col" | Peak chart positions

scope="col" style="width:2.9em;font-size:90%;" | JPN
Oricon
scope="row" | Wildlife

|

  • Released: 26 February 1987
  • Label: CBS Sony
  • Formats: LP, CD

| -

=Self-cover albums=

class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:19em;" | Title

! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:19em;" | Album details

! scope="col" | Peak chart positions

scope="col" style="width:2.9em;font-size:90%;" | JPN
Oricon
scope="row" | Songs

|

  • Released: 23 December 1993
  • Label: Rhizome
  • Formats: CD

|7

scope="row" | Melodies

|

  • Released: 20 September 2006
  • Label: Universal J
  • Formats: CD

|56

=Compilation albums=

class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:19em;" | Title

! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:19em;" | Album details

! scope="col" | Peak chart positions

scope="col" style="width:2.9em;font-size:90%;" | JPN
Oricon
scope="row" | Complete of Tetsuro Oda at the Being Studio

|

  • Released: 25 September 2002
  • Label: B-Gram
  • Formats: CD

|83

scope="row" | Best of Best 1000: Tetsuro Oda

|

  • Released: 12 December 2007
  • Label: B-Gram
  • Formats: CD

|169

scope="row" | Growing Up 1983–1989

|

|204

=Singles=

class="wikitable"

!Year

!Album

!Chart positions
(JP)

!Label

1981

|{{nihongo|"Iro Aseta Machi"|色あせた街}}

|rowspan="11"align="center"| -

|Canyon

rowspan="3"|1983

|{{nihongo|"Honoo no Sadame"|炎のさだめ}}

|Star Child

{{nihongo|"2001Nen"|2001年}}

|rowspan="7"|CBS Sony

{{nihongo|"Toki wo Koete"|時を超えて}}
rowspan="1"|1984

|"Lucie My Love"

rowspan="1"|1985

|{{nihongo|"Stay: Okizari ni Sareta Ai no Naka de"|STAY -置き去りにされた愛の中で-}}

rowspan="1"|1987

|{{nihongo|"Ai wo Sagashite"|愛を探して}}

rowspan="1"|1988

|"Season"

rowspan="1"|1989

|"In the dream"

rowspan="2"|1990

|{{nihongo|"Hikari to Kage no Naka de"|光と影の中で}}

|rowspan="2"|Platz

"Smile for me"
rowspan="2"|1992

|{{nihongo|"Itsumademo Kawaranu Ai wo"|いつまでも変わらぬ愛を}}

|align="center"|1

|rowspan="2"|BMG Victor

{{nihongo|"Kimi no Me ni Rainbow"|朝がくるまで}}

|align="center"|14

1993

|{{nihongo|"Asa ga Kuru made"|朝がくるまで}}

|align="center"|29

|rowspan="2"|Rhizome

1994

|{{nihongo|"Kimi no Egao wo Mamoritai"|君の笑顔を守りたい}}

|align="center"|8

1998

|{{nihongo|"Aozora"|青空}}

|align="center"|149

|rowspan="4"|Zootrec

2000

|{{nihongo|"Kizuna"|キズナ}}

|align="center"|32

rowspan="2"|2003

|{{nihongo|"Mayonaka no Niji"|真夜中の虹}}

|rowspan="2"align="center"| -

{{nihongo|"Inori"|祈り}}
2007

|{{nihongo|"Tsuki no Namida"|月ノ涙}}

|align="center"|115

|Universal J

2010

|{{nihongo|"Itsumo Anata ga 2011"|いつもあなたが 2011}}

|align="center"| -

|Lantis

2017

|"Cafe Broken Heart"

|align="center"|148

|King

==Digital single==

class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
scope="col"| Year

! scope="col"| Single

! scope="col"| Reference

rowspan="2"|2011

|style="text-align:left;"|{{nihongo|"Itsumademo Kawaranu Ai wo-2011 version"|いつまでも変わらぬ愛を 2011}}

|{{cite web|url=https://mora.jp/artist/192363/|title=織田哲郎の作品|publisher=Mora|language=ja|accessdate=2 December 2023}}

style="text-align:left;"|{{nihongo|"Anata no Uta"|あなたのうた}}

|

2023

|style="text-align:left;"|{{nihongo|"Negai"|願い}}

|

==Collaboration singles==

class="wikitable"

!Year

!Album

!Chart positions
(JP)

!Label

1992

|"Bomber Girl

  • with Fusanosuke Kondo

|align="center"|20

|BMG Victor

1993

|{{nihongo|"Jounetsu wa Neranai"|憂鬱は眠らない}}

|align="center"|18

|Rhizome

2002

|"Candle Light"

|align="center"|97

|Cutting edge

2008

|"Eternal Landscape"

  • with Skoop On Somebody

|align="center"|47

|SME

Songwriting credits

=1990s=

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|+ List of songs written for other artists, showing year released and album name

! scope="col" style="width:10em;"| Year

! scope="col" style="width:14em;"| Title

! scope="col" style="width:14em;"| Artist(s)

! scope="col" style="width:17em;"| Album/Single

rowspan="5"|1990

| scope="row"| "Chance!"

| rowspan="2"| Yui Asaka

| Chance!

scope="row"| "7 Days Girl"

| Nude Songs

scope="row"| "Odoru Pompokolin"

| B.B.Queens

| Odoru Pompokolin

scope="row"| "Yume ga Ippai"

| Yumi Seki

| Yume Ippai

scope="row"| "Kiss Shite Loneliness"

| Yoko Minamino

| Kiss Shite Loneliness

rowspan="7"|1991

| scope="row"| "Good-bye my Loneliness"

| rowspan="3"| Zard

| Good-bye my Loneliness

scope="row"| "Fushigi ne..."

| Fushigi ne...

scope="row"| "Mō Sagasanai"

| Mō Sagasanai

scope="row"| "Omoide Kujuukurihama"

| Mi-Ke

| Omoide Kujuukurihama

scope="row"| "Rock Your Fire"

| rowspan="3"|Hideki Saijo

| Rock Your Fire

scope="row"| "Hashire Shougimono"

| Hashire Shougimono

scope="row"| "Abunai Hashi wo Watare"

| Moichido

rowspan="4"|1992

| scope="row"| "Nemurenai Yoru wo Daite"

| rowspan="1"| Zard

| Nemurenai Yoru wo Daite

scope="row"| "Just Illusion"

| rowspan="1"| T-Bolan

| Just Illusion

scope="row"| "Kanashiki Teddy Boy"

| Mi-Ke

| Kanashiki Teddy Bo

scope="row"| "Sekaijū no Dare Yori Kitto"

| Miho Nakayama and Wands

| Sekaijū no Dare Yori Kitto

rowspan="12"|1993

| scope="row"| "Makenaide"

| rowspan="4"| Zard

| Makenaide

scope="row"| "Yureru Omoi"

| Yureru Omoi sg.

scope="row"| "You and me (and…)"

| Yureru Omoi al.

scope="row"| "Kitto Wasurenai"

| Kitto Wasurenai

scope="row"| "Kono Mama Kimi Dake wo Ubaisaritai"

| rowspan="3"| Deen

| Kono Mama Kimi Dake wo Ubaisaritai

scope="row"| "Tsubasa wo Hirogete"

| Tsubasa wo Hirogete

scope="row"| "Memories"

| Memories

scope="row"| "Chotto"

| Maki Ohguro

| Chotto

scope="row"| "Sakihokore Itoshisa yo"

| Wink

| Sakihokore Itoshisa yo

scope="row"| "Koe ni Naranai hodo ni Itoshii"

| rowspan="3"|Manish

| Koe ni Naranai hodo ni Itoshii

scope="row"| "Kimi ga Hoshii Subete ga Hoshii"

| Kimi ga Hoshii Subete ga Hoshii

scope="row"| "Nemurenai Machi ni Nagasarete"

| Nemurenai Machi ni Nagasarete

rowspan="6"|1994

| scope="row"| "Kono Ai ni Oyogi Tsukaretemo"

| rowspan="3"| Zard

| Kono Ai ni Oyogi Tsukarete mo/Boy

scope="row"| "Oh My Love"

| Oh My Love

scope="row"| "Anata wo Kanjiteitai"

| Anata wo Kanjiteitai

scope="row"| "Hitomi Sorasanaide"

| rowspan="2"| Deen

| Hitomi Sorasanaide

scope="row"| "Omoikiri Waratte", "Hiroi Sekai de Kimi to Deatta"

| Deen (al.)

scope="row"| "Sekai wa Owaru Made wa"

| Wands

| Sekai wa Owaru Made wa

rowspan="6"|1995

| scope="row"| "Aoi Usagi"

| rowspan="1"| Noriko Sakai

| Aoi Usagi

scope="row"| "Kimi ga Ita kara"

| rowspan="2"| Field of View

| Kimi ga Ita kara

scope="row"| "Totsuzen"

| Totsuzen

scope="row"| "Forever you", "I'm in love"

| Zard

| Forever You

scope="row"| "Zettai ni Dare mo"

| Zyyg

| Zettai ni Dare mo

scope="row"| "Yume Miru Shoujo ja Irarenai"

| Nanase Aikawa

| Yume Miru Shoujo ja Irarenai

{{Hidden end}}

=2000s=

{{Hidden begin|title=Show more|width=100%|border=1px solid black}}

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! scope="col" style="width:10em;"| Year

! scope="col" style="width:14em;"| Title

! scope="col" style="width:14em;"| Artist(s)

! scope="col" style="width:17em;"| Album/Single

rowspan="2"|2003

| scope="row"| "Days"

| rowspan="2"| Akina Nakamori

| Days

scope="row"| "Kaze no Hate He"

| I Hope So

{{Hidden end}}

=2010s=

{{Hidden begin|title=Show more|width=100%|border=1px solid black}}

class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"

|+ List of songs written for other artists, showing year released and album name

! scope="col" style="width:10em;"| Year

! scope="col" style="width:14em;"| Title

! scope="col" style="width:14em;"| Artist(s)

! scope="col" style="width:17em;"| Album/Single

rowspan="1"|2012

| scope="row"| "Namida Hoshi ni Kagayaku"

| rowspan="1"| KinKi Kids

| Kawatta Karachi no Ishi

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References

{{reflist}}

External links

  • {{official website}}
  • [http://gree.jp/oda_tetsuro/ Official blog] {{in lang|ja}}
  • {{ann|people|24491}}

{{Wands}}

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