In 1967, Teresa joined Taiwan's Universe Records at the age of 14. In September, the company released the first vinyl record for Teresa Teresa, titled "The First Episode of Teresa Teresa's Song "Fengyang Flower Drum"", which was put on the music stage after a generation of songs, writing a musical legend that influenced generations of fans.
Record production and distribution
Album name: Teresa Teng Song First Episode "Fengyang Flower Drum" Medium: Vinyl Records Number: AWK-003 Production and Distribution: Universe Records Release Date: First Edition September 1967, Second Edition October 1967 (Due to the fact that "When Will You Come Back" was banned in Taiwan at that time, it was replaced by "Daughter Circle")
track:
Side A:
1. Happy tonight
2. The girl is eighteen flowers
3. Know not know
4. When will you come back
5. There is only one of you
6.Moon and Night Thoughts
B-side
1. Fengyang flower drum
2. Shake and shake
3. Peach Blossom River
4. Sing at dusk
5. Year after year
6. Do needle and thread
(Due to limited storage space, vinyl records can often only record 5-6 songs on one side)
Record features
As Teresa Teresa's debut work, this album was also a work when she was 14 years old, and with the conditions of accompaniment and recording at that time, it was naturally not perfect. But it is precisely because it was written when I was 14 years old, so it is still touching to hear it 54 years later. I think, wow, Teresa's teenage song yeah!
The album itself is very distinctive. At that time, there were very few original songs for pop music, so the selection of this album was basically songs from the 30s, folk song minor style. Lyricists and composers such as Yao Min, Chen Dieyi, Gu Jiahui, Lai Jinhui, etc. were active in the 1930s and 1940s.
On the one hand, the selection of songs is to play the characteristics of Teresa Teng girl singers, and good at opera, such as happy tonight, Fengyang flower drum; however, as a future superstar, Teresa Teng's singing characteristics have begun to show, in "Moon Night Acacia" (bright moon thousands of miles to love), "When will you come back", "Only one you" and other songs, Teresa Teng is good at lyricism, pay attention to charm, full of emotion, there have been later gentle and moving, fresh and beautiful prototypes, it is not easy to hear the tone of the girl. In "When Will You Come Back" around 1 minute and 45 seconds, when singing "Finish drinking this cup", you can even hear Teresa Teresa's laughter, maybe she laughed, after all, she is still a child. The main song "Fengyang Flower Drum", Teresa Teng sings it with full spirit.
Background analysis
Teresa Teng's rise to the stage of music history is the result of a combination of amazing talent and hard work. When she was still four years old, Teresa Teng began to learn to sing along the radio and sang a lot of songs. As if arranged by heaven, a fortuitous moment, on a rainy day, when Teresa Teng was humming Zhou Xuan's "Ethereal Song" on the steps in front of her house, she was discovered by her mentor, Professor Chang Yinchun, and took her into the hall of music. It was this teacher again, when the "China Radio" in Taiwan held the Huang Mei tune competition, he took it upon himself to register for Teresa Teng, and Teresa Teng also lived up to the teacher's kindness, all the way through the barriers, with a song "Visit to Britain and Taiwan" to win the first place, that year, Teresa Teng was 10 years old. Li Shangyin has a poem cloud "Young Feng Qing yu old wind sound", which is used to compare Teresa Teng, which is the most appropriate.
Teresa Teresa was born with a good voice, and she was born to eat the bowl of singing. Think of Mozart, who began composing music at the age of 5, toured Europe with his father and sister at the age of 6, and Beethoven performed on stage at the age of 8. These people are all musical geniuses, but the efforts and sacrifices made by these people are far beyond ordinary people. In order to practice his voice, Deng's father often rode a bicycle to the river to practice singing in the morning. In order to sing, Teresa Had to drop out of Jinling Girls' High School in accordance with the school's regulations, although she once represented the school in the Golden Horse Awards Record Company's singing competition and won the crown. For the singing career, Teresa Teng began to go to the major song halls in Taipei at 14 o'clock, sometimes to catch six times a night, the pressure can be imagined, it is under this high-intensity training, Teresa Teng gained the strength to sing with ease in the future.
Teresa Teng was able to release records at the age of 14, which was also due to the development of the times. Since the 1960s, Taiwan has pursued an export-oriented industrialization strategy, when Taiwan's economic and social development has grown by leaps and bounds, maintaining a double-digit annual economic growth rate for a long time. In the context of the rapid economic development of the society, popular music has also begun to sprout, and cabarets, radio, television and other industries need a large number of singers. In 1964, Ye Qitian debuted, known as the "Treasure Island Song King", the representative work "Love to Fight to Win"; in 1967, Teresa Teng joined the universe record; Ouyang Feifei, who went to Japan in 1970 to develop; Feng Feifei, who entered the song world in 1971; in 1973, Fei Yuqing began to sing, and so on. These singers all grew up in the context of the development of popular music. Almost 10 years later, the "New Folk Song Movement" arose in Taiwan, and at that time, Teresa Teng was already an internationally renowned superstar.
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