Chapter 13: Shocking the Wa Kingdom (1)
When she arrived at Song's house, Song Shiqing took out the key and opened the door, only to find that Song Xianfeng was not at home.
"I must have gone to some event. Song Shiqing complained dissatisfiedly, "He's busier for the New Year!"
Chen Tianliao smiled: "No way, who asked Uncle Song to do this work." By the way, Xiaoqing, I want to ask you, do you want to release a record...... Uh, it's out of the cartridge?"
In this era, there was no concept of records in China, and now the popular thing is the tape recorder, and the tall things like CDs are only owned by a few people. So Chen Tianliao also directly said the cassette.
Song Shiqing's eyes widened in surprise and said, "You mean, I am out of tapes like those stars?"
"Yes!" Chen Tianliao nodded seriously. Although I have long had the idea of creating a record for the little girl, I thought that the little girl was too young and never acted. Now that the little girl has put forward the idea of letting the two families become one, Chen Tianliao also wants to put this matter into practice, and first shorten the distance between the two families.
Song Shiqing was so happy that her whole body trembled, and her words were not good: "I...... Can I?"
Chen Tianliao said: "Of course. But it's going to take another year. I'm going to start a company first, and then I'm going to hire someone to teach you how to sing. â
Song Shiqing nodded and said, "Okay, I'm willing to wait, I'm willing to wait!" As she spoke, she hugged Chen Tianliao and smacked him the face. Then let go of Chen Tianliao, covering his face and laughing.
Chen Tianliao touched his face and left the Song family, and began to think about his record company that had no shadow yet.
Speaking of which, this era is the golden age of making records in mainland China. Because the entertainment industry was not yet developed in this era, the broad masses of the people were hungry and thirsty for all kinds of entertainment. In this context, a box drives sales of two or three hundred thousand, and the sale of one million cartridges is only a relatively best-selling product, and the number of four or five million is also seen from time to time.
In this era, there were very few music creators in the mainland, and there were basically only two ways to distribute cassettes, one was to directly pirate the cassettes of Xiangjiang and Baodao for sale, which was more common in the southeast coast. One is to find a master to record each instrument in the music separately, and then rearrange it and find your own singer to sing it, which is called "stripping". Of course, there are also foreign songs that are accompanied by Chinese lyrics. In the previous life, the famous songwriters Li Haiying, Chen Xiaoqi and others in Lingdong Province were all masters of pickpocketing, and the first generation of pop singers and singers Zhang Qiang, Cheng Fangyuan, Zhang Xing, Wu Diqing and others basically sang pickpocketing songs. Of course, because the key to the success or failure of the cassette at that time was the level of the tape, and the singer didn't matter, so before the entertainment industry flourished, the remuneration of these first-generation pop singers was very low, and the singer may be paid a few hundred yuan for a cartridge with millions of sales.
For Chen Tianliao, he doesn't need to find the existing songs in this world to pick up. He has countless ready-made songs in his soul. What he needs is a good arranging team, as well as a qualified management team and sales team. That's what his record label needs. As for the qualifications to run a company, he has a good helper - Huang Yi.
Chen Tianliao learned about Huang Yi's family background in his interactions with Huang Yi and Zhuchuan. Huang Yi's grandfather was an important figure on the cultural front before the founding of the People's Republic of China, and has been very influential in the cultural and educational circles since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and his father also held an important position in the Ministry of Education. Huang Yi's grandfather used to be a high-ranking official of the Ministry of Culture, and most of Huang Yi's uncles and aunts were people from the cultural circles. With Huang Yi's help, it shouldn't be difficult to start a record company. My immediate need is to need a large amount of start-up capital.
When he returned home, Chen Tianliao sent all the songs of the album he wrote for the Luna group to Zhuchuan, and at the same time, he also sent out five popular Japanese songs from his previous life. It's all about the money.
In addition to waiting for news from the Wa Kingdom, Chen Tianliao also inquired about Song Xianfeng's personality by the way. For a primary school student, adults are completely defenseless and say anything to him, so Chen Tianliao has a deeper understanding of Song Xianfeng. This person is a good person, he is an expert talent who can do practical things, and if he doesn't say it well, he is a stinky old nine who is willing to be an old scalper.
Although he is in the officialdom, Song Xianfeng does not have a relationship, so he gets along well with the leader who appreciates him, and he rarely socializes in addition, and he did not find a new backer after the old leader retired. He can't say that he is upright, but he is more obedient to the rules, and he is more disgusted by crooked and evil behaviors, and he puts an end to all violations of discipline and law under his rule, of course, only under his own rule. Financially, he relied on his own salary to support himself and his daughter, and also sent alimony to his parents and parents-in-law every month, which was not easy.
Among them, his behavior of sending alimony to his parents-in-law was the most reassuring to Chen Tianliao. You must know that his wife, that is, Song Shiqing's mother, died of dystocia when she gave birth to Song Shiqing because she was an advanced maternal age, and Song Xianfeng has always remembered his wife's family and no longer marries his wife, and at the same time still respects his father-in-law. Coupled with the observation of getting along on weekdays, Chen Tianliao began to believe that Song Xianfeng might also become a more ideal partner for his mother in the second half of his life.
After receiving Chen Tianliao's new song, Takekawa first gave Miho Takahashi Miho's new song to Luna's group as promised. There are a total of 25 new songs in it, and 12 of them are randomly selected by the people in their company as the content of the album. These songs are all girl groups from the previous life, such as SPEED, ZONE, BERRYZ Kobo, ăąăŒăăłă° (Good Morning Girl), AKB48, etc., all of which have been tested by the market in the previous life, at least above the level. Takahashi quickly heard back, saying that he was very satisfied and willing to re-sign a contract and buy all the songs.
Although Zhuchuan already knew that Chen Tianliao was a genius, he didn't expect a genius to be like this. Twenty-five songs, all of which had to be bought, she admired them very much. I'm looking forward to the other five songs.
Of these five songs, the first is "ăȘăăéȘ (Remnant Snow)", which is also one of the 100 songs that moved the Japanese country in the twentieth century, and was composed by Ise's Shozo of the famous band ăăăć§« (Kaguyahime), but it was not sung. Soon, the female singer Dolphin (ă€ă«ă«) covered this song, which touched many people and officially became popular. This song is to describe the parting scene of a pair of two little guesses in the remnants of the snow in early spring, expressing nostalgia for the past feelings and longing for the future, warm and touching.
The second song is Mika Nakajima's masterpiece "Snow ăźèŻ", composed by Matsumoto Yoshiki, and there are four versions of the Chinese cover: two versions of "I'm Sorry I Love You" (Chinese, 1983 group and Cai Chunjia each have a version of the same name), "Drifting Snow" (Chinese, Han Xue), "Hua Wuxue" (Cantonese, Yong'er), the stick Park Hyo-shin has also sung it, and it is quite well-known in China. In addition, Japanese singers such as Tokunaga Hideaki and Moriyama Yoshiko have also covered them, but Chen Tianliao still prefers the original version. Mika Nakajima's unique voice may not be available in this world, but the song itself is excellent enough to make up for everything.
The third song is the famous "Guanbai Declaration" and "Guanbai Lost Footing" by Masashi Sada, an old friend of the Chinese people. These two songs are actually two sides of the same song, and they both use the same tune. "Guan Bai Declaration" can be called a "macho manifesto", the whole song is full of the male power view of "male protagonist outside female protagonist", of course, under this kind of male power, it is also full of men's sense of responsibility for the family and men are full of "domineering president" spoiling of women. And "Guan Bai Lost His Foot" is a different look, this is a man's prayer to his wife as a "waste snack", but the song is still full of a man's sense of responsibility to the family and the struggle to never give up.
It is worth mentioning that in another time and space, a person named Han Han in China covered "Guan Bai Declaration" as the theme song of the movie "Riding the Wind and Waves", but it was sprayed into a dog. Because he took all the men's sense of responsibility to the family in the original song and turned it into a disgusting song of a waste dim sum man dictating to his wife. If a self-motivated and spoiled "domineering president" can still be favored by some women, a man who has no ability but points fingers can only make women disgusting.
The fourth song is "One Love" by the youth group Lan, which was once covered by Mango Channel as the ending song "Sunflower" of "Everyday Upward", and the tune is familiar to many Chinese people. This song composed by Yusuke Kato is very good, and as long as the singer's singing skills are not too bad, it is easy to sing brilliantly.
The last song is Kondo Masahiko's "Song of the Sunset". There are three very good Chinese cover versions of this song: "Song of the Sunset" by Anita Mui of Kondo, the love of her life, "Song of a Thousand Thousand Que" by Chen Huixian and "Promise in the Wind" by Li Yijun. Although Kondo Masahiko's reputation as a scumbag in the Japanese entertainment industry in another time and space is far louder than his reputation as a singer, I can't help but admit that this is a good song.
Takekawa couldn't laugh or cry in the face of these five songs with a difference of 108,000 miles in style. God knows how Chen Tianliao could write such a messy song, and Takekawa had to prepare to make a few more copies of the song score, and then submit it to those large and small record companies and offices in the Japanese country.
While Takekawa was humming "Snow ăźèŻ", her phone rang. Takekawa looked at the caller ID, it was Yoko Nakajima calling. She held up the phone: "Hey, Yoko, I'm the truth." â
"Aha, Yoko, I heard that Liao-chan sent you a draft of the song again?" Yoko Nakajima on the other end of the phone went straight to the point.
Takekawa was stunned: "Ah, how did you know?"
Yoko Nakajima on the other end of the phone said: "Ah, that, I am an elementary school alumnus with Kaomi Ogawa and have a connection, she said that Liao-chan has just written a lot of songs for them, and Zhen-chan still has a few Liao-chan songs in her hand." â
Takekawa sighed and said, "I see." Liao Jiang sent me five songs and asked me to help with the operation. There's a song for you in it, why don't you come and have a look?"