Chapter 568: Music Chronicles (1)
Toββ[1980]
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In Taiwan in 1980, this year's Golden Bell Award "Best Female Singer Award" was won by singer Teresa Teng. In the past year, her singing voice has not only sounded at Lincoln Center in New York and Los Angeles Music Center, but also resounded throughout the Chinese mainland in the form of pirated cassettes and cover highlights, and hundreds of millions of people in the north and south of the country were drunk by Teresa Teng's singing.www.biquge.info
In the same year, Luo Dayou graduated from China Medical College and successfully obtained a doctor's license. In addition, he wrote the interlude "Whether" for the movie "The Wrong Car" during this year, which was sung by Su Rui. "The Story of Time", "Will Enter the Wine", "Lukang Town", and "The Same Moonlight" also bubbled out from his pen this year.
Li Zongsheng, a 22-year-old Taiwanese youth and the son of a gas shop owner, who has graduated from the electrical engineering department of Hsinchu Private Mingxin Industrial College, joined Polygram Records as a member of the "Acoustic Guitar Choir" in this year and produced "The Complete Works of Acoustic Guitar".
Other members who worked with him were Jiang Xueshi, Chen Xiunan, Zheng Wenkui, Chen Yongyu, and Zhang Binghui.
In this year, Chen Shuhua sang "The Story of the Doll", and Pan Yueyun officially stepped into the music scene on October 31 of this year, and two months later, she and Wu Chuchu and Li Lifen jointly launched an album, the name of the album is "Three-person Exhibition". Taiwan's Rolling Stone Records was also born in 1980.
In Hong Kong, Hui Guanjie, who has long been famous, adapted the songs "Half a Pound and Eight Taels" and "The Prodigal Son" into English versions to coincide with the release of the movie "Half a Pound and Eight Two" in the United States. In July of this year, he launched the album "Nian Nujiao". At the end of the year, his "79 Summer Songbook" won a platinum record at the 4th "Golden Disc Awards".
Singer Huang Yingying, who debuted in 1974, published an English album called "Portrait" in this year.
Wang Mingquan sang "The King of a Thousand Kings" and "Jinghua Spring Dream".
Ye Liyi sang what is perhaps the most important song in her life, "Shanghai Tang".
In the hinterland, this year. Country. Feng resigned, IV. Person. Gang stand trial. According to a report by The Guardian on April 14, 1980, the window of a photo studio in Shanghai read "Suits are rented here" with an authentic Chinese slogan pasted next to it: "For the revolution, have only one child." β
Also in this year, in Chinese mainland, the movie "Zorro" reached a record 70 million viewers.
Luo Dayou, Teresa Teng, Liu Wenzheng...... The names and songs of these people have been introduced to Chinese mainland.
The lyrics of "Orchid Grass" are derived from Hu Shi's poem "Hope", and the fragrance of orchid grass drifted to Taiwan with Hu Shih in his twilight years, and then became popular in the mainland again with the guitar in Liu Wenzheng's hand.
At that time, almost all young men would sing, "I came from the mountains with orchids," and young women who heard the song would smile with heart.
On February 20, 1980, Chinese mainland had its own pop song list for the first time, and the Literature and Art Department of the Central People's Radio and the editorial department of "Song" jointly held the "Listeners' Favorite Radio Songs" selection activity, with more than 250,000 people participating in the selection, resulting in the famous "Fifteen Lyrical Songs", including "Young Friends Come to Meet", "Sister Looking for Brother Tears Flowing", "White Feathers Send Affection", "Yan Nanfei" and so on created by songwriters Gu Jianfen and Wang Liping.
Li Guyi, Li Guangxi, and Li Shuangjiang were hot stars at that time, although at that time, everyone was not very accustomed to calling them "stars".
On the evening of September 23, 1980, the "Rising Star Concert" was officially staged at the Capital Gymnasium in Beijing, which made a song "Night of the Military Port" popular all over the country, and also made the names of many singers such as Zhu Mingying, Su Xiaoming, and Zheng Xulan into people's hearts.
"Our Life is Full of Sunshine", "Our Tomorrow Is Sweeter Than Honey", and "Happy Songs Flying Out of the Waves" were the main themes of the society at that time, and young people used such voices to embrace the new 80s.
"The boys played the six-stringed piano, and the girls changed into swimming suits" - Zheng Xulan described the ideal leisure life of young people in the first song "Sun Island", the first song using electroacoustic instruments in the mainland. Some songs that exude a strong revolutionary smell have been adapted into light music, such as "Red Plum Praise" and "Ode to Coral".
It was also in this year that Cheng Fangyuan, a 20-year-old young woman from Beijing who was a performer in the Central Orchestra, began to teach herself vocal music, and later that year, she made her debut on stage and achieved great success.
In 1979, Yu Junjian, a young man from the mainland who sang the theme song and interlude for the Hong Kong movie "The Legend of the White-Haired Witch", published the "22 Golden Songs of Yu Junjian Movie" audio tape and record in Hong Kong, and transferred it in. Country. Person. People. Untie. Put. Army. Total. Politics. Govern. Division. Song and Dance Troupe.
"In another twenty years, we will meet ......" 30 years later, few young people will still sing this song.
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Toββ[1981]
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In 1981, the TV series "Garrison's Expendables" became a rebellious teaching material, Qiong Yao's novel appeared next to the pillows of young girls, and the girls of the Chinese women's volleyball team collectively became the common idol of the people of the country.
This year, the first place in Hong Kong's top ten golden songs was won by Zheng Shaoqiu's song "Being a Man and Loving Freedom".
Zhen Ni's "Pearl of the Orient" (not the one later composed by Luo Dayou) ranked eighth.
Singer Zhang Mingmin released an album called "Looking at the Stars", in which he sang Chinese songs such as "Daddy's Straw Shoes" and "Walking in the Wind and Rain".
Chen Baiqiang has already sung one of his masterpieces "Remembering Relatives".
Lin Zixiang sang a cover of Li Xianglan's "Night Fragrance" in Cantonese.
In 1981, after being introduced by his sister Qi Yu, Qi Qin entered Zongyi Records as a singer and published his first solo album "See Her Again". This album became the masterpiece of Zongyi Records, but Qi Qin was drafted into the army that year after the release of the record.
Luo Dayou published "Proverbs of Love", and Zhang Aijia's solo album "Childhood" also included four songs he created: "Let's Come Together", "Spring Hope", "Four Seasons", and "Falling Leaves".
Tsai Qin, who won the "Best Singer Award" in the first recording category of Taiwan's "Golden Tripod Awards" two years ago, published two solo albums - "Qiu Jin" and "Your Eyes" in this year. And Teresa Teng's "Just Like Your Tenderness" was also born in this year.
In the mainland, the names of Peng --- Li--- Yuan and Jiang Dawei began to be known by more and more people because of two songs, "On the Field of Hope" and "Where the Peach Blossoms Bloom".
Shanghai's Zhu Fengbo published a number of solo albums during the year, with the words "soprano solo" written on the cassette cover, and the tracks included covers of Taiwanese songs such as "Green Island Serenade" and "Country Road", as well as names such as "Four Flowers Bloom and Happiness Comes".
In Beijing, a performance called "Taiwan Song Concert" was held, and songs such as "Snail and Oriole" and "Catching Loaches" fascinated the Beijing audience.
In this year, singer Cheng Fangyuan officially entered the music scene and was transferred to the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe as a soloist.
Cui Jian, a young man of the Chao-Xian-ethnic group, also became a professional trumpet player in the famous Beijing Aihe Orchestra.
During this time, Cui Jian heard foreign music tapes brought into China by foreign tourists and students, and became fascinated with rock music, and out of love for Simon & Garfunkel and John-Denver, he began to learn to play the guitar and soon began to sing in public.
And Zhang Xing, a young man from Shanghai who has also been learning guitar playing for two years, is still working as a worker in Shanghai Qunyi Radio Factory at this time.
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Toββ[1982]
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This year, the names of three young people in Chinese mainland began to be familiar to everyone: in the sixth World Cup gymnastics, a young man with a good face won six gold medals in a total of seven events, and 17 years later, he will be selected as the "best athlete of the century" by the International Sports Journalists Association along with Michael Jordan, Beckenbauer, Bailey and 25 others, his name is Li Ning.
Also in 1982, the national martial arts champion Jet Li starred in the film "Shaolin Temple" of Hong Kong Zhongyuan Film Company, which not only caused the worship of "martial arts masters" among young people across the country and a large number of teenagers ran away from home to learn art, but also made the music album "Shaolin, Shaolin" popular all over the country.
Child star Cheng Lin won the "Skylark Award" with her solo album "Little Rocking Car of Childhood" in this year, and was transferred to the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe as a soloist, and was also cordially received by the old man Deng Yingchao when she performed in the Great Hall of the People. Li Kuchan, a master of painting, personally poured ink on her to paint, and wrote an inscription - "Xiao Chenglin's singing voice is full of genius and great promise, and he is given encouragement, Li Kuchan is eighty-four years old, 1982". But at the same time, she is also being criticized for imitating Teresa Teng's singing style
This year, young men wearing old grass-green military uniforms and cloth shoes, and carrying military bags appeared again on the streets of mainland cities, but their girlfriends may be wearing fashionable jeans. It is very likely that his girlfriend's hair has been cut into the popular "Sachiko head", because this year, "Sachiko" in "Blood Suspicion" made Yamaguchi Momoe a super idol in the hearts of the Chinese.
Fei Xiang, a mixed-race young man from Taiwan, joined EMI Records this year and released his first album "Lingering", and the image of the handsome and upright Prince Charming quickly won the hearts of the people.
Luo Dayou created the song "Wild Lilies Have Spring", as the theme song of the movie "Wild Sparrow Flying High" sung by Pan Yueyun, in addition to this song, Luo Dayou's first solo album "Zhihu Ye" was also released by Taiwan Rolling Stone Records on April 21 of this year, full of critical lyrics and unprecedented radical music style, resulting in an unprecedented wave of self-reflection on the island of Taiwan.
On May 18 of this year, he also held a concert at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei, becoming the first person to lead the trend of solo concerts in Taiwan. Songs such as "Zhihu Ye", "Little Sister", "Song Without Words", "Birth", and "The Orphan of Asia" were all born in this year.
Li Zongsheng also officially entered the record industry as the 3rd award-winning singer of the Golden Rhyme Award in this year, and produced the album "The Right Time for the Light Rain" for singer Zheng Yi.
In Hong Kong, in May 1982, TVB and Huaxing Records decided to hold the first Hong Kong Rookie Singing Contest, and Anita Mui, who had been singing songs in her mother's "Jinxia Opera Troupe" for 14 years, finally agreed to accompany her to the competition under the repeated urging of her sister Mei Aifang.
There were more than 3,000 young people competing with them, and in the competition, Mei Aifang did not enter the third round. On July 18, Anita Mui's final song was Xu Xiaofeng's "Season of the Wind". Although it was a cover, the 18-year-old singer shocked everyone at the competition scene with 14 years of performance experience, incredible singing skills and self-confidence beyond ordinary people, including the chairman of the jury Gu Jiahui and judges Huang Zhan and Li Xiaotian. Anita Mui won the championship without dispute.
On Anita Mui's final score sheet, Huang Zhan gave a perfect score of 50 points without hesitation, and Gu Jiahui was a little cautious and gave 49 points. Since then, the Hong Kong music scene has had an Anita Mui.
Anita Mui released her first record "Heart Debt" this year, and the 24-year-old popular singer Chen Baiqiang sang "How Precious Tonight" this year, from this time on, he has 11 years left in his life, but he himself doesn't know it.
Ten years later, at 10 p.m. on 1 May 1992, he would suddenly faint and remain in a coma for a long time until his death on 25 October 1993.
Old partners Huang Zhan and Gu Jiahui collaborated to write a song called "Forget the Love in My Heart" this year, sung by singer Ye Zhentang - this song ranked first in Hong Kong's top ten golden songs of the year this year.
21 years later, at the concert held by the Hong Kong Red Pavilion, Ye Zhentang, who is already old, will sing this song again, the melody and lyrics are the same as 21 years ago, and the song sings: Forget the love in your heart, leave love and infatuation, let the laughter send away the old sorrows, and let the wine wash away the past......
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Toββ[1983]
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In 1983, the mainland broadcast a Hong Kong TV series for the first time, the name of this TV series is "Huo Yuanjia", the actors Huang Yuanshen and Liang Xiaolong cut the kind of hairstyle with bangs in front and neck in the back began to be popular among young people, the theme song of the film, Ye Zhentang sang "The Great Wall Will Never Fall" also became one of the most popular songs in the mainland at that time, "Sleeping for a hundred years" is often sung by young men in the north as "water and water larks".
For the first time in this year, CCTV broadcast the station's Spring Festival Gala to the whole country, Li Guyi sang 7 songs such as "Hometown Love" in a row, and the most sensational scene was actor Liu Xiaoqing greeting his parents at the party. The ringing of the four direct-dial telephones has hardly stopped, the lines of the Beijing Telecom 86 Bureau are hot, the technicians are very nervous, and the spare equipment and fire-fighting equipment have been prepared.
The little singer Cheng Lin went to Hong Kong to perform in 1983, and it was a sensation, and Hong Kong people called her "Little Teresa Teng".
In this year, Shanghai's "Youth Daily" opened a "Half Moon Song" song ordering column. Among the 250 letters received, most of them were Taiwanese campus songs, film and television interludes, and other Chinese and foreign pop songs.
Among them, the songs that have been featured more than 20 times are: Taiwanese campus song "Early Morning" (37 times), Japanese film and television song "Fire of Youth" (28 times), mainland song "I Love Milan" (21 times), and mainland movie song "Sea, Hometown" (20 times).
The top 7 mainland singers who were named are: Wang Jieshi, Xie Lisi (115 times); Shen Xiaocen (50 times); into a square circle (39 times); Su Xiaoming (25 times); Zhu Mingying (21 times); Zheng Xulan (21 times).
Lijun released a 15th anniversary album of her debut in Taiwan, and according to Hong Kong Polygram Records, from 1975 to 1983, Teresa Teng's record sales in Hong Kong reached 5 million, setting a record in the Chinese music scene.
In this year, she also published an album called "Faint Love", which composed and sang many classical poems, and later became one of Faye Wong's masterpieces, "When Will the Bright Moon Be There" came from this album.
Su Rui's first Chinese album "The Wrong Car" was finally published this year, and this album that condensed the efforts of a new generation of Taiwanese pop musicians, including Luo Dayou, Liang Hongzhi and Li Shouquan, was almost epoch-making in the Taiwanese pop music scene at that time. Some people say that if there is no Su Rui, Teresa Teng's songs will be popular for at least ten years.
Qi Yu released her second solo album "You Are All My Memories" after more than a year of silence.
Li Zongsheng's album "The Right Time for the Light Rain" for Zheng Yi was also released this year and occupied the bottom of the charts for 13 weeks. "The light rain came at the right time / On behalf of the tears I can't shed / The light rain came at the right time / Diluted my thoughts about you", the songwriter of the song is Xiao Worm, who was still serving in the army when he wrote this song. Li Zongsheng himself probably didn't expect it, because of the song "End" sung with Zheng Yi on this album, he is about to start a brilliant career as a creative star.
Leslie Cheung sang "The Wind Continues to Blow" this year, while Hong Kong boys Wong Ka Kui and Ye Shirong formed a group called beyond this year, and participated in the Mountain Leaf Guitar Competition held by "Guitar Magazine" and won the championship. The winning songs are included in a mixed disc titled "Hong Kong".
Anita Mui, who just debuted last year, made a splash with the theme song "Red Doubt" of the Japanese TV series "Red Doubt" and won the first place in the top ten golden songs in Hong Kong that year, and the TV series "Red Doubt" is actually the "Blood Doubt" that caused a sensation in the mainland.
The episode of "The Condor Heroes" "Love and Righteousness" is popular in Hong Kong, and the singer is Zhang Delan. The TV series "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" starring Weng Meiling was also released in Hong Kong, and many theme songs and interludes sung by Luo Wen Zhenni and others were widely sung. And Rowan himself, because of his contribution to Hong Kong's performing arts industry over the years, was selected as the "Top Ten Outstanding Young Persons of Hong Kong". (To be continued.) )