Ten classic songs by Chen Shuhua
During the most prosperous period of the Chinese music scene, there was a record company called Rolling Stones, which occupied a huge weight in the hearts of Chinese fans.
At its peak, the Rolling Stones had countless well-known singers, many music producers who could be called the "Godfather of Chinese Music" at random, and many popular songs that were still widely praised until now.
Today, Xiaobian would like to introduce a singer who has been forgotten by many modern fans, but is enough to enter the annals of Chinese pop music,Chinese she is the singer who has been admired by many King Tianhou singers of Rolling Stone Records and has been remembered - Chen Shuhua.
At the end of December 2003, in order to commemorate Chen Shuhua, who quit the music scene, Rolling Stone Records, a very humanistic company, released a commemorative album "A Letter to Shuhua".
In 2006, at Li Zongsheng's rational and emotional concert, when "daughter" Liang Jingru finished singing a song "Ask", a letter written by Li Zongsheng to Chen Shuhua was played on the stage display.
At the end of the letter, it reads: "I haven't seen you for a long time, Shuhua, are you watching from the audience?" Watch Xiao Li become the real old Li, the hair is gone, the beard is white, the person is wandering, the heart is vicissitudes, but still has to sing loudly, as if it was then. It doesn't matter, the days will go on smoothly, we will meet again, sing, just like in the past.
However, no matter how the friends in the music world persuaded, no matter how Li Zongsheng, who relied on Chen Shuhua's album to become a "million gold medal producer", how to stir up emotions, the distant Chen Shuhua ignored it and decided to go to the ground.
Xiaobian is not a fan of Chen Shuhua's era, but when she fell in love with old music, she was helplessly "captured" by Chen Shuhua and willingly became her little fan of music.
Xiaobian can't write about chen Shuhua's greatness, and only wants to do his best to share ten classic songs of Chen Shuhua in the text, evoking fans who like Chen Shuhua's music to miss this former diva of the song world.
The 10 songs listed by myself are the 10 songs of Chen Shuhua that I often listen to, not necessarily her best musical works, but I have always touched in my heart.
Regarding nostalgia, in no particular order, what the heart thinks, the words follow.
1. "When You Wake Up" 1989
In 1989, Chen Shuhua, who jumped from EMI Records to rolling stones, under the meticulous concoction of Li Zongsheng, launched the first music album in the history of Taiwanese music that sold more than one million - "Tell You, Listen to You", and the title song is this "Waking Up from Dreams". "When You Wake Up" was rated as "30 Songs in 30 Years" at the Chinese Golden Melody Awards, and its classic degree, you listen to the songs yourself, the melody is catchy, it can be said that it is never outdated.
2. "Laughing Red Dust" 1993
There is no longer any song that can sing the elegance and freehand of the rivers and lakes like "Laughing Red Dust". Li Manting's words, Li Zongsheng's songs, Chen Shuhua's singing, Xu Ke's films, all of these are a match made in heaven. Some people like "A Laugh in the Sea", some people like "The Long Road Is Long for Me to Break Through", some people like Ren Xianqi's "Tianya" and "Can't Die" in the late 90s, there are too many popular songs about martial arts, and the taste of "Laughing Red Dust" is chic and wanton.
3. "Rolling Red Dust" 1991
A movie "Rolling Red Dust" made the legendary actress Lin Qingxia of the Chinese film industry win the only Golden Horse Film Queen laurel in more than 30 years, and also made the theme song of the same name "Rolling Red Dust" an era chapter of traditional pop music. Luo Dayou's song that sees through the red dust thousands of times, Chen Shuhua's affectionate interpretation of seeing the ups and downs of life's tides, and the encounter between the king and the queen are a match made in heaven. What life is, it's all in the song.
4. "Streamer Flying", 1993
In 1993, Xu Ke filmed the subversive traditional martial arts film "Green Snake", naming Chen Shuhua to sing the theme song, so he invited Huang Xia to compose the lyrics and music, and Lei Songde to be responsible for the arrangement. This fanciful "Green Snake" is a classic work of Xu Laowei's martial arts jianghu, and the theme song "Streamer Flying" makes the audience enjoy more aural pleasures in addition to the visual. Xu Ke, who did not let go of Chen Shuhua, let this Chinese tiantian sing the theme song in two versions, he admired Chen Shuhua's half of the city and half of the martial arts, after the movie "Flowing Light And Flying", the movie "The Undefeated Storm rises again in the East Wind" Xu Laozi ordered Chen Shuhua to sing the theme song "Laughing Red Dust", this time it was two versions of Mandarin, but the Cantonese version had a new name - "Be a Real Me".
5. "Ask", 1992
There are many versions of "Ask", allowing the "love song diva" Liang Jingru's version to sing how to sing with pity, but after listening to Chen Shuhua's original version, you can appreciate that the lyrics and songs are the same, the singing people are different, and the audience's feelings are different. "Ask", written and composed by Li Zongsheng, is the theme song of Yang Ziqiong's 1993 martial arts film Wing Chun, and is also an "excellent member" in Chen Shuhua's martial arts song family.
6. "Smart and Confused Mind", 1991
After becoming the "big queen" of Taiwan's music scene, Chen Shuhua did not use her own brand too much, and her records also held the principle of "rather lack than abuse", basically maintaining the frequency of one album a year. In 1991, she released the album "Smart and Confused Heart", the title song of the same name became a representative of her singer's career, and Chen Shuhua, who sang quietly, made this song sad and hurt, and let people with stories listen to it and cry.
7. "Say, You Love Me" 1995
In 1995, Chen Shuhua, who was looking forward to transformation, found Wang Zhiping, Tao Zhe and Doll and produced an album with R&B style, "Shuhua Blooming". The best song in the song is this "Say, You Love Me", when listening to Shuhua's soothing and sensational slow love song, and then listening to this cheerful and dynamic "Say, You Love Me", it feels really fresh, but unfortunately this is just an attempt by Shuhua, she did not stick to it, and then gradually depressed because of family changes.
8. "Clear my heart" 1991
What is the famous song of kung fu superstar Jackie Chan? Not the later "True Heart Hero", not the Chinese version of "Boys Should Be Self-Reliant", not "Ambition in My Chest". Instead, it is the song "Clearly Understand My Heart" sung with Chen Shuhua. This song was composed by Lee Zongsheng, when Jackie Chan wanted to emulate other Hong Kong artists and sing well, he asked his good friend Lee Zongsheng to find a way for him, so Lee Zongsheng created a song, pulled the golden partner Chen Shuhua and Jackie Chan to sing, and after the time and place, Jackie Chan became a singer of Rolling Stone Records.
9. "You Walk Your Way" 1989
Speaking of Li Zongsheng and Chen Shuhua are successful examples of mutual fulfillment, how can they be less than the chorus songs of the two. In the second album they collaborated on, that is, the million-selling "Tell You, Listen to You", the two sang the song composed by Li Zongsheng - "You Walk Your Way", a classic song that became a masterpiece after Chen Shuhua withdrew from the circle, and Li Zongsheng has never sung alone since.
10. "Life and Death", 1995
The December 1995 album "Life and Death" is the penultimate album launched by Chen Shuhua personally, in this album, the title song of the same name composed by Xiao Worm, one of the three godfathers of Taiwan's music, "ShengSheng Shi Shi", brought Chen Shuhua the trophy after her second personal Golden Melody Award song, who could have imagined that this song was actually the touch left by this diva to the fans "before the end"!
In 2007, before Luo Dayou, Li Zongsheng, Zhou Huajian and Zhang Zhenyue established the "Vertical Line", they had called Chen Shuhua out of the mountain to move fans and save the old owner, but the Chinese diva who had retired from the circle for 9 years did not respond.
A few years later, Some Entertainment Remember sent the photos of Chen Shuhua shopping secretly taken to the Internet newspapers and periodicals, which triggered a huge hot discussion, and the Chen Shuhua in the photo was in a trance, looking haggard, completely without her former glory, making countless Shuhua fans emotionally sad and tearful.
Recently, when Zhou Shen, Wang Sutaki and others sang Chen Shuhua's classic works on the Internet, there was no emotion in listening to them anymore, because no matter how well they sang, they could not surpass Chen Shuhua's voice, nor could they replace the feelings that Chen Shuhua brought to fans twenty or thirty years ago.
Sister Shuhua, may everything be well, the music world has never forgotten you.