I. Spring Festival Gala "Nail Household"
There are two evergreen trees in the Spring Festival Gala, one is "Unforgettable Tonight", which has been sung more than thirty times, and the other is Li Guyi, the "nail household" on the Spring Festival Gala stage.
Although the scenery on the stage looks infinite, it is not as simple as it seems to be doing this "nail household".
Last year, Li Gu once again appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, and the 76-year-old looked radiant, but can you imagine that she had just experienced the pain of bereavement at that time?
On May 29, 2021, her husband, who had walked half his life with Li Guyi, suddenly passed away, and the heavy blow plunged her into several days of grief.
It was just that at that time, he had already accepted the invitation of the Spring Festival Gala, and Li Guyi had to make himself come out as soon as possible and join the rehearsal of the Spring Festival Gala.
Unlike ordinary people's Chinese New Year's Eve meals, since they first appeared on the Spring Festival Gala in 1983, the Chinese New Year's Eve meals of the Li Gu family have basically not been punctual.
"Our family Chinese New Year's Eve meal is more special, I must be more than a minute or two o'clock to eat this reunion dinner, so when I finished acting, we began to make dumplings, that is, even if you eat a few dumplings, it is also a reunion dinner." 」
In 1983, Li Guyi, who debuted at the Spring Festival Gala, sang 9 songs in a row, becoming an insurmountable mountain on the Spring Festival Gala stage.
Maybe it's too profound, but when she mentioned it again many years later, she still remembers it vividly: "Like the first Spring Festival Gala in 1983, I sang nine songs, anyway, I was quite tired, and my face was full of sweat."
Perhaps the response was not bad, to the second Spring Festival Gala, Li Guyi was invited again and sang 6 songs in a row, of which the finale track was "Unforgettable Tonight", which was later interpreted many times.
It is worth mentioning that that year's "Unforgettable Tonight" was only used as the background music for the end of the Spring Festival Gala, and Li Guyi did not appear on stage.
But despite this, Li Guyi's career has climbed to the peak and formed an indissoluble relationship with the Spring Festival Gala for thirty years.
Because of the Spring Festival Gala, Chinese New Year's Eve has another layer of meaning for Li Guyi: "New Year, it is a different general festival, it is a festival of reunion, from 83 years ago, the Spring Festival Gala was created, bringing hundreds of millions of people together to celebrate such a festival." ”
Although Li Guyi is busy every year on Chinese New Year's Eve nights, she never stops imagining the future: "Of course, I hope that I am healthy and can sing new works." ”
Second, the first Spring Festival Gala sang "Nostalgia"
This is probably the most controversial song in the history of the Spring Festival Gala:
Your figure
Your song
Forever imprinted in my heart
Although it sounds nothing now, it was a "forbidden song" at that time, and many people at that time criticized it as pretentious and a beautiful sound.
This is the ninth song "Nostalgia" sung by Li Guyi on the Spring Festival Gala stage, and it is worth mentioning that this song was not originally in the program list of the Spring Festival Gala, but was ordered by the audience.
At the first Spring Festival Gala on the mainland, in order to enhance the interaction with the audience, four hotlines were opened on the spot for the audience to order their favorite programs, and when Li Gu finished singing the first "New Year Song", the call to demand "Nostalgia" did not stop.
At that time, all the on-demand orders were placed on a plate until the middle of the party.
The notes of the on-demand "Nostalgia" were piled up with four plates, and it should be known that at that time, mobile phones and telephones were not popular, and all the on-demand telephones were called one by one by the audience braving the snow of goose feathers in front of the public telephone.
But when the on-demand orders were handed to the director group one after another, Huang Yihe, the general director of the Spring Festival Gala, made a mistake at this time.
At that time, "Nostalgia" itself had a great controversy, and Li Guyi was also interviewed by the leaders because of this song.
In the face of such a high enthusiasm of the audience, Huang Yihe could not bear to disappoint the audience, but whether to sing or not to sing, this is indeed a tricky problem, if you do not handle it well, even your own black hat will be lost.
Huang Yihe found the leader of the TV station, and after the two weighed it, "Nostalgia" was finally presented on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala.
Although at that time, the straightforward emotional expression in "Nostalgia" was unacceptable to many conservatives, it cannot be denied that it was a work of epoch-making significance.
After that, the door of Chinese pop music was completely opened, and songs of various styles sprung up like mushrooms, and Li Guyi was also known as the founder of Chinese pop music.
Third, the story behind "Unforgettable Tonight"
What are your Spring Festival Gala memories?
Is it Feng Gong's sentence that I want to kill you, or: "My name is Baiyun, my name is Black Earth." ”
If you ask silent memory, it is: "Unforgettable tonight, unforgettable tonight..."
Since the second Spring Festival Gala, "Unforgettable Tonight" has pulled the curtain on the Spring Festival Gala more than thirty times, marking the beginning of a new year.
Spring Festival Gala director Ha Wen once tried to innovate the ending song in 12 years, using "The World Under One Family" to replace "Unforgettable Tonight", and the result not only did not achieve the expected effect.
On the contrary, the audience's call for "Unforgettable Tonight" is getting higher and higher, and Harvin's attempt seems to prove once again that "Unforgettable Tonight" is difficult to shake.
In the hearts of many people, "Unforgettable Tonight" has long been an eternal memory of the Spring Festival Gala.
As the ending song of the Spring Festival Gala, "Unforgettable Tonight" is a chain linking the old year and the new year, but it is this chain, and its "Spring Festival Gala Road" is also extremely bumpy.
In 1984, with the deepening of reform and opening up, many compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan were also welcomed on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala.
In this context, Huang Yihe, the director of the Spring Festival Gala, wanted to make a song containing the reunion of the motherland, so "Unforgettable Tonight" came into being.
The first time I got the lyrics book, everyone was shocked by its majestic lyrics, but the moment they heard the song, there was a disagreement within the director's team.
"When he wrote this song, he only had words and scores, and after writing it, when the director group passed, because there was no sound, there was no recording, then everyone listened to the song, and the people in the director group hummed, and as a result, when it came out, he didn't sing the feeling of Wang Mo (composer), so he didn't say it, and he felt too lyrical."
At that time, when it came to the closing song of the party, people's first impression was that the gongs and drums were noisy, but the song of "Unforgettable Tonight" was lyrical and warm.
Some people say that the song is soft and soft, like mourning, and has no power at all, let alone represent the Spring Festival.
Therefore, in the first round of screening programs, "Unforgettable Tonight" was eliminated.
The reaction of the people around him is a huge blow to director Huang Yihe, and how can he be a master who gives up lightly.
In an instant, a person flashed in his mind, who might be able to save this song.
Li Guyi: "Huang Yihe called me, I called and went there, at that time I said that the lyrics and melody were absolutely nothing to say, but Director Huang, I beg you to listen to me sing out, after recording the sound, you are denying it, Director Huang Yihe did not hesitate at that time, go to the recording, finish recording, call me on the third day, Gu Yi, this song passed, good." ”
The successful passage of "Unforgettable Spring Supper" gave Huang Yihe a reassuring pill, and Li Guyi, who sang this song, also began his career as a "Spring Festival Gala Nail Household".
Nowadays, "Unforgettable Spring Supper" has become the symbol of the Spring Festival Gala, which has resounded for more than 30 years, and has long been integrated with the Spring Festival Gala, and has also become the memory of the Spring Festival Gala of a generation.
The New Year is coming, and if nothing else, we will relive this familiar melody together.
Time flies, maybe you are no longer young and crazy, maybe you are no longer young and beautiful, maybe you have become a father and a mother, but fortunately, in the long river of time, in the familiar melody, we can still find back, those warm memories of each other.