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"Love Story wa Totsuzen ni' (ラブ・ストーリーは突然に, lit. Sudden Love Story) is a song by Japanese singer Kazumasa Oda. The song, his best-known work, is featured as the B-side on the single "Oh! Yeah! / Love Story wa Totsuzen ni", the ninth-best-selling Japanese single since 1968, selling approximately 2.7 million copies to date. [1]
Kazumasa Oda (小田 和正, Oda Kazumasa, born September 20, 1947) is a Japanese singer-songwriter, and composer. He was the leader of folk rock band Off Course from 1969 to 1989, and has done solo work since 1985. As the vocalist of Off Course, Oda wrote many Japanese standard numbers in the 1970s and 1980s.
Tokyo Love Story was adapted into a Japanese television drama in 1991 which aired on Fuji Television in 11 episodes and one special between January and March 1991. The television drama starred Yūji Oda, Honami Suzuki, and Narimi Arimori, and its theme song "Love Story wa Totsuzen ni" by Kazumasa Oda is the 9th best-selling single in Japan.
Dancing with an Angel is a studio album by American singer-songwriter Rita Coolidge.Released on July 21, 1991, by Attic Records in Canada and Japan, it consists mainly of English-language covers of popular J-pop songs.
"Suddenly ~Love Story wa Totsuzen ni (Suddenly ~ラブ・ストーリーは突然に~, A Sudden Love Story)" (Kazumasa Oda cover) Kazumasa Oda, Priscilla Coolidge: Kazumasa Oda: Shinichiro Murayama: 4:09: 8. "Mō Koi Nante Shinai (もう恋なんてしない, I'll Never Fall in Love Again)" (Noriyuki Makihara cover)
Oda began his career as a performer of the folk-rock band Off Course. He began releasing solo material in 1985. [1] His 1991 single "Oh! Yeah!" / "Love Story wa Totsuzen ni" topped the Oricon Singles Chart and was certified two-times million by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ).
On his 1993 album Inspired Colors, he also wrote and composed the song "12-Gatsu no Fairy Tale", as well as English covers of "Video Killed the Radio Star" and Kazumasa Oda's "Love Story wa Totsuzen ni" under the title "suddenly" (using the lyrics from Rita Coolidge's version). He has also tried his hand at standard jazz and has performed ...
Ranking Single Artist Release Sales 1 "Love Story wa Totsuzen ni" Kazumasa Oda: February 6, 1991 (): 2,542,000 2 "Say Yes" Chage and Aska: July 24, 1991 (): 2,504,000 3 "Ai wa Katsu"