It is very common for singers to cover other people's songs, such as several generations of idolSa Teng Lijun have many songs that are covered in Japanese; Songs such as "Lovers Are Not Enough", "Angels Are Singing", "Brave New World" and other songs when SHE first debuted are also cover songs; Even in the early years, most Hong Kong and Taiwan singers covered Japanese songs.
After the localization of foreign songs, it is easier for listeners to understand the lyrics, and then empathy will arise, and the degree of singing will be higher.
Cover songs can generally be divided into 3 categories, or re-arranged and sung, or re-filled words and re-sung, or the whole song is sung unchanged.
The singers we mentioned above belong to the first two types, and they bought the copyright to refill the lyrics and then cover the songs that the general public has less contact with abroad.
And what makes the original singer more depressed should be the third kind, the cover singer does not change a lyric, a note does not adjust but the other person's singing has become their own masterpiece, and later everyone mentioned those songs, only remember the cover singer, do not know the original original song.
I. Jiang Shan's "Water Town in Dreams"
"Faint acacia is written on the face, heavy parting is on the shoulder, tears flow across the face, all the words are still not said..."
With long-term lyrics, gentle melodies, and the sweet voice of Jiang Shan, a Jiangnan american, this song "Water Town in Dreams" has been favored by countless people since its release in 1994.
The following year, the song won the Bronze Award and the Special Honor Award at the China Music and Television Grand Prix, which made it even more famous.
In addition, at that time, Jiang Shan's starring "Addiction" was being broadcast nationwide, and for a while, her limelight was unique, and "Confused Love" and "Dream Water Town" were played all over the street.
Speaking of which, Jiang Shan is a particularly lucky girl, the heroine of "Addiction" was not originally her, and the original singer of "Dream Water Town" was not her.
Zhao Baogang had a very successful "The Story of the Screenwriting Department" before preparing for "Addiction", and he admired Wang Lan, the actor of Liu Xiaohong in the play, and after filming, he asked her not to take other plays for a short time and wait for his new drama.
But at that time, Wang Lan was sharp and revealed, and she found a lot of films that came to the door, and she accidentally took over the heroine of the movie "Five Kui" directed by Huang Jianxin, who was more famous at that time.
Zhao Baogang almost died of anger after learning about it, so he had to find Jiang Shan as a substitute. Judging from the effects presented later, we will find that Jiang Shan and Wang Lan have some similarities in appearance and temperament, and even the shallow pear vortex is the same.
However, later Wang Lan's film did not have any splash, and Jiang Shan's "Addiction" became popular all over the country, and a choice made the two actresses open a gap in their careers.
After filming "Addiction", Jiang Shan signed a contract with Star Disc Culture Company and began to develop in the direction of singers. Chen Hong, who later became popular with "Often Go Home to See", was also a signed singer of the company at that time.
In 1993, Chen Hong released her first album "This time I really stayed with you" under the supervision of Xingdi, and the third song in it was "Dream Water Town".
It's just that "Water Town in Dreams" is not her main song, nor is it hyped up, and there is some pearl dust meaning.
Half a year later, the company released her first album "Only Love Me" for Jiang Shan, and music producer Wang Xiaojing felt that "Water Town in Dreams" was particularly suitable for Jiang Shan's voice, so he arranged this song for her again.
Unexpectedly, the song was sung as soon as it was released. The melodious flute sound seemed to drift from the vast jiangnan of the smoke waves, accompanied by the breeze, blowing into the hearts of the listeners. Under the shore of the willow, the story of the exquisite teenager and the beautiful girl is being staged, and the Jiangnan in the dream is more or less like this.
Later mentioned "Dream Water Town" everyone thought of basically Jiang Shan, in 2020 Chen Hong sang this song on her own sound platform, people in the comment area either did not know that she was the original singer, or said that she did not sing the taste of Jiang Shan...
2. Fei Xiang's "A Fire in Winter" and "Clouds in Hometown"
On the stage of the Spring Festival Gala in 1987, the 27-year-old Chinese-American mixed-race actor Fei Xiang sang a song "Clouds of Hometown" to exhaust his nostalgia, and another song, "A Fire in Winter", ignited the atmosphere of the scene.
It is said that his dancing posture of twisting his waist on stage was too charming, and the photographer was warned by the director and could only shoot his upper body.
But since then, with deep eyebrows and a long jade body, he has become the dream lover of countless people.
Men, women and children will hum a few words " You are like a fire in that winter, and the flames warm my heart."
Now when Fei Xiang is mentioned, the audience's heart is still the teenager who sang and danced on the Stage of the Spring Festival Gala in a red suit, and if he wants to say his masterpiece, the first thing that comes to mind is "The Clouds of the Hometown" and "A Fire in Winter".
However, these two songs are actually cover songs, and the original song of "A Fire in Winter" is singer Gao Lingfeng.
In 1982, Gao Lingfeng released "A Fire in Winter" and "Burn It!" Firebird", when he was popular in Taiwan, the song set a record for the highest price of 240,000 Taiwan dollars on the day of the male singer's show.
But his fire is only local, and Fei Xiang, on the Spring Festival Gala, was well known to everyone on both sides of the strait and the three places, and then held 65 high-profile concerts in 12 cities.
However, Gao Lingfeng's song is not original, he is a cover of the Irish family group The Nolans released "sexy music" in 1980. The original singing is wild and the disco flavor is strong.
Similarly, another song "Clouds of Hometown" sung by Fei Xiang on the spring evening is also a cover song, and the original song is a singer's article. In 1983, lyricist and composers Xiao Xuan and Tan Jianchang tailored this song to express their longing for their hometown based on their study abroad experience.
The article was not low in fame at the time, but it was not as well-known as Fei Xiang's Spring Festival Gala.
Interestingly, a year after Fei Xiang put "Clouds of Hometown" on the Spring Festival Gala, another of his songs, "Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Mile Road", was sung by Bao Nana on the Spring Evening as a masterpiece.
III. Teresa Teresa, "The Moon Represents My Heart"
The song "The Moon Represents My Heart" has been covered by countless singers, if you ask who is the original singer, I think many people will blurt out: Teresa Teng.
But in fact, this song was first sung by Chen Finland in 1973, because the lyricists and composers Sun Yi and Weng Qingxi had a long-term cooperative relationship with the Li singing film company, and the song was sent to the ligament after its birth. The company arranged his artists and the singers he cooperated with in turn, first to Chen Finn, and almost at the same time to Liu Guanlin.
This has created an interesting phenomenon: Chen Finn was the first to get this song, but Liu Guanlin was the first to send it, and there is a dispute over who is the original singer, and the composer Weng Qingxi once said in an interview that it was Chen Finn.
In the following years, Xia Taifeng, Zhang Yilan, Xu Xiaofeng, and Pan Xiuqiong all recorded this song, and the response was mediocre.
Four years later, Teresa was recommended to cover the song, which she did not release as the title song, but became popular throughout the Chinese world.
After she sang the fire, hundreds of Chinese and foreign singers covered or sang this song, and many film and television dramas also used it as the theme music.
In fact, Teresa Teng has countless songs that are reinterpreted by others, but once she mouthed it, everyone almost can't remember who the original singer was, such as "On the Side of the Water", "Cloud River" and so on.
IV. Zhou Hui's "Agreement"
In 1999, the 22-year-old Zhou Hui signed a record label, and in the same year released her debut album "Zhou Hui Selection", the sales data is quite beautiful, setting a record of 1 million copies in Asia, and she became famous.
The album's title song "Engagement" became her masterpiece, and the MV produced in the form of a comic was also very impressive.
In the years since, she has been invincible, releasing several albums in a row. Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, and later she was pit by her mentor, and her career was devastated from then on.
Now when it comes to her, the most related song is her first album out of the circle of "Convention", and this song is actually a cover of Faye Wong's song of the same name.
In 1997, Faye Wong released the album "Toys" in the "Engagement" composed by Chen Xiaoxia and lyrics by Lin Xi, which is a Cantonese version.
After Zhou Hui's debut, her music producers immediately invited Yao Ruolong and Chen Xiaoxia to re-compose the lyrics and arrangements after hearing the version sung by Faye Wong on KTV, and there was a Chinese version of Zhou Hui's "Engagement" that we later heard.
The two editions have their own advantages, but Zhou Hui's version has become Zhou Hui's representative work, and There are too many representative works by Faye Wong, and most people mention that she will not think of "The Agreement" first.
V. Jiang Yuheng's "Looking Back"
In 1991, singer Jiang Yuheng sang a song "Looking Back Again" on the spring dance evening stage.
On that day, wearing a pair of black pants, a white shirt, and glasses, he politely spread a slightly sad song throughout the mountains and rivers.
After mentioning Jiang Yuheng, the three words "look back" immediately popped up in his mind.
And this song, the original song is Su Rui.
In 1989, Su Rui sang the theme song "With Love" for the film "Qunlong Drama Phoenix" directed and starring Hong Jinbao, which is a Cantonese song, and later when the film was released in Taiwan, a Chinese version was born, which was later "Looking Back".
Because Su Rui's contract with the original record company expired at that time, the song was not taken seriously, but Jiang Yuheng promoted it on the Spring Festival Gala stage a few years later.
At the New Year's Eve party of Taiwan Television in 1992, Jiang Yuheng and Su Rui sang this song together.
6. Zhang Dongliang, "When You Are Lonely, Who Will You Think Of?"
In 2002, Malaysian male artist Zhang Dongliang made his debut through the singing competition. Three years later, he went to Taiwan to develop, and in the same year released the album "First Self-Titled Album", in which the title song "When You Are Lonely, Who Will You Remember" was extremely popular. In that crembell era, his song topped the charts for mobile ringtones downloads throughout the month.
At about the same time, the idol drama "Smile Pasta" starring him and Wang Xinling pushed his career to the peak.
In the Internet age, a song is really playing on the streets and alleys, even if you don't know what he looks like, you probably understand that Zhang Dongliang is about equal to "When you are lonely, who will you think of".
But the song is his cover version, originally sung by the new junior club group (NBC) composed of three members, Cai Yizhang, Wu Zhenglun and Shi Yinwei, released on the 1993 album "Rhymes".
The group didn't survive long before it disbanded, and it didn't have much fame, and many people didn't know that they were the original singers.
Their song was also sung by Dawn in Cantonese in 1994, with different lyrics in the same song, and Dawn's version is called "My Dear or You".
Dick Cowboy "How Much Love Can Come Back"
When it comes to the big guy who flipped the original song, you have to mention "Daddy" Dick Cowboy.
Dick Cowboy came from a humble background, and did all kinds of miscellaneous work in his early years, until the age of 40, when he finally released his first album "Begang".
This album includes songs such as "How Much Love Can Be Returned", "Love Is Like a Tide", "Liberation", "Ronin Love Song", "Passionate Desert" and other songs, without exception, all of which are cover songs.
One of the most powerful is that "How Much Love Can Be Repeated" was fiercely labeled as his own, which made many people forget that the original song was Huang Zhongkun.
Huang Zhongkun is an artist with a variety of film and television songs, who has starred in film and television works such as "The King of a Thousand Kings Re-emerges from the Jianghu", "Goodbye Sunny Days", "Unforgettable" and even filmed wind and moon films.
In 1994, he released the album "Love and Commitment", in which the song "How Much Love Can Be Repeated" made him popular. In the same year, Faye Wong also adapted the Cantonese version of "The Edge of Love and Pain" with this song.
Summary: The above seven cover singers have successfully crossed the original song and labeled the work fiercely. Fortunately, most of them did not develop in the same era, otherwise the original singer would definitely be very aggrieved in his heart.
In fact, many singers now are very concerned about others singing their own works, especially by those singers with profound singing skills, such as Zhou Shen's "The Sound of Snow Falling" sung by Zhou Shen, which was sought after by many listeners.
Later, Zhou Shen's fans ran to Lu Rover's social media account to leave a message, asking him if he could sing the theme song of the same name in "Sideburns Are Not Begonia Red" to Zhou Shen.
Although this fan's words are more aggrieved, and he has not forgotten to blow a wave of Land Rover's rainbow fart, Lu Rover replied bluntly and quickly: I only do stupid things once, "Snow Falling" is now about to become his representative work, don't beat my song again.
It is enough to show that the singer is still quite taboo about those powerful peers to cover their own works, because everyone can't remember the cover singer, and the original song has been snubbed.
Do you know any more famous examples of cover songs than the original?