In 1969, he recorded the song "Candre Mandre" at his house, in order to be played on the radio program "Smash!! 11" which was aired on RKB Mainichi Broadcasting. It received a lot of requests from listeners of the program but, in fact, most of them were from Inoue's friends. However, pretense favorable reaction gave him an opportunity to make a debut. He moved to Tokyo and recorded "Candre Mandre" at the studio, with the arranger Hitoshi Komuro and his band, Rokumonsen. A newly recorded version of the song was released as a single by the CBS Sony label in September 1969, under the distinctive stage name "Andre Candre". Reportedly, the artist name was initially credited to "Mandre", but altered after it was refused by a director of "Smash!! 11".