1980 (Mon)
In the last year of the 1970s, it was also an unprecedented and lively year. As I said, it was the year that TVB's "Rotational Circulation" ratings were inferior to tv's "Grace of the Earth" and was beheaded, poor theme song, behind-the-scenes elites and wonderful actors, including Chen Baiqiang, whom we all love.
In Cantonese pop music, this year is the year of Rowan's "Let Me Be Unrestrained" and "There is a Mystery in My Heart" vs. Xu Guanjie's "Tsim Sha Tsui Suzie", so in terms of fast songs, I was not lonely that year! Starting from "Little Li Flying Knife" fighting "God of Wealth", the two kings of Cantonese pop songs have never stopped competing.
This year, it is also the year of Rowan's "Horn" vs. Guan Zhengjie's "Star", the two followed "This Autumn" again "hit the song", this time both of them adapted Tanimura Shinji's "Pleiades", and also asked Zheng Guojiang to write lyrics at the same time, but the two lyrics are completely different. It's really a bit of a deer who kills whose hand it means. Really lively!
Rowan and Lin Zixiang have two prominent slow songs in this year. But on the whole, it is mainly the era after the two kings and one queen.
"May I hawthorn rocket and take you to the sky to live in space for two people"
Minutes need you – Music: Lin Zixiang, Lyrics: Zheng Guojiang Sing: Lin Zixiang
This is Lin Zixiang's first personal creation that has been warmly welcomed by a wide audience, and the style should come from his early knowledge and love of fox, which can be seen in his continuous adaptations of Peter, Paul & Mary's works over the years. In the same year, he also adapted a janis Ian piece that felt more suitable for him. I will share it with you later!
The original English version of "Minutes Need You" "Without The Two Of Us" is strangely not so foxk, but it is quite pop, it is a song with a bit of Kenny Loggins feeling. After becoming a Chinese, this song does not carry a strong Western style, but completely belongs to the market of that year, and let Lin Zixiang and the audience further find resonance!
Zheng Guojiang was extremely hot and produced a lot of production, and lin Zixiang was a very compatible partner with Lin Zixiang before Lin Zhenqiang appeared. For this song, Sir Zheng (Zheng Guojiang) wrote a very touching love story of ordinary people, and the mentality and taste are very compatible with the melody. But in fact, for Lin Zixiang personally, he has matured, not as simple as when he wrote "Without The Two Of Us" in the United States. Like in "Choice" before him, we have heard that he is a musician and singer with depth, ideas, and thoughts. Of course, "Minutes Need You" has become a breeze for him, but it has not really played to lin Zixiang's charm. This song is more suitable for one of the two jie ge (Xu and Guan) to sing at that time! This sweet and heartfelt lyric is the No. 2 (civilian hero) essence of my artist's decryption. Lin Zixiang must not be a No. 2 star!
"The rising sun is far away from the mountains, and the dazzling golden light is moving."
It is like sending away sorrow and resentment, but also sending away sorrow and indignation. ”
Dawn - Music: Bobby Da, Lyrics: Zheng Guojiang, Sing: Rowan
(Belongs to the album "Famous Sword Flow" was released in December 1979)
With the reputation and achievements of "The Great River Goes East", Bobby Da + Zheng Guojiang + Rowan trio once again challenged the difficulty. This time, the last time the east and west are combined, the big band is fluttering, but the melody has a little bit of oriental flavor, but the orchestration is still Western. And the lyrics are balanced for this "hebi", Sir Zheng uses the Chinese heart to write dawn, write hope, write oriental, plus Rowan's own oriental taste, just right!
This is another difficult and high-style work, in fact, it has not been popular at all, but it can withstand the test of time very much. And singing at the peak of Rowan's second career, his confidence directly sends the optimism and positive energy of the lyrics to the hearts of every fan. This is a rare good song, and it is a pity that no one has covered it, but who dares? There are not many Jacky Cheung and Eason Chan!
"It's hard to get your wish
The times of constant resentment are like the sea of wrath that makes me spin around."
I have introduced The New Topnotes to you before, a Hong Kong-language band, which produced Chen Jieling and captain Ye Zhentang, and I also talked about him in the introduction of the song "Diaphragm". The last time I chatted with Gu Jiaxuan, he also praised Johnny (Ye Zhentang) in front of me, so looking back, it was not only Guan Zhengjie who sang not weak songs for weak TV stations, but also Ye Zhentang! In this way, there is a good singer in the Cantonese pop music scene, and from various clues, I believe he has also studied Rowan's singing voice, because his way of singing English songs is different from Chinese songs, which is very normal. But soon, Johnny found the sound of his own Cantonese pop songs.
Fusheng Six Disasters – Music: Li Xiaotian, Lyrics: Lu Guozhan, Singing: Ye Zhentang
For the current audience, the TV series "Six Disasters of Floating Life" is most remembered by Zhang Guorong's performance. This is the era of his struggle. Over there, Chen Baiqiang has become red, and it feels like the two are very similar in all aspects, foreign, returnee, young, good-looking, Virgo, family background is rich! Also, the two of them were the same agent at the time, and there was a Rowan on it! In fact, Zhang Guorong already had an excellent performance, and you can imagine how uncomfortable he was at that time.
"Tried our best to get no questions
Who can be willing to be thin? ”
(Dramatic Life – Music: Li Xiaotian, Lyrics: Lu Guozhan, Singing: Ye Zhentang)
In fact, this drama is popular with Ye Zhentang, because there is not only one song in the play, but two good slow songs that have entered the scope of our discussion, and the two capitals are so wonderful! Lu Guozhan continued his best philosophical style, attracting the audience. Li Xiaotian's melody, in fact, the two capitals are equally beautiful, but what will stand the test of time more will be "Drama Life", because it is obviously a ballad, with a more romantic melody, but also more emotional. But it is very symmetrical to discuss these two songs as a pair, like two songs that come out of the same musical, they have a vine and melon connection with each other, like two brothers, growing up in the same home. Looking at it this way, it is also a bit like the state of Chen Baiqiang and Zhang Guorong!
"The Red Sun will set stars will appear...
Moonlight in front of the bed is round again tonight."
This year, Cantonese pop songs are another year of more prominent male singers, and the only song that can be compared with them is Zhen Ni, who rode "Struggle" and "Spring Rain Machete", and successfully became popular to the "one queen" of the two kings and one queen of the year! This year, in terms of slow songs, her more prominent song is "When to See You Soon". It may also be that you have noticed that the prominent reason is the appearance of the name of Liu Jiachang, a Taiwanese era qu taidou.
The explosion of Cantonese pop songs has more or less affected Taiwan, because I have said that the reason why Canto-pop is unprecedented, and even opened the Chinese pop music, is because it is an event that affects Chinese people around the world. As I said, the previous Cantonese era songs were not as good as the Taiwanese times songs, and one of the reasons was that there were talents like Liu Jiachang in Taiwan.
Zhen Ni is very smart, she is popular in Hong Kong, and she does not forget Taiwan, nor does she forget Chinese, nor does she forget Mandarin pop songs. That's her root. So she holds Gu Jiaxuan in her left hand, and there is still a Liu Jiachang in her right hand. Therefore, when you listen to "When the Day Goodbye", it is likely to notice the structure, it is still a Chinese era song, but Liu Jiachang really understands Zhen Ni, and the melodic lines are completely exposed to zhen ni's most shining place, whether it is bass or treble. It's really beautiful, so although there is still one leg left in the era of the era, this beautiful love song comes in.
Another reason is that Sir Zheng, who is on the rise, wrote a lyric for Zhen Ni that belongs to the era of popular songs. When you compare Sir Zheng's words in "When to See You" with the Chinese version of "A Thousand Miles together chan juan", it is obvious that the two are different in chronological styles. When the lyricist of the latter, Sun Yi, used it very elegantly: "Spring water is soft, that autumn water is cold" to start "Thousand Miles together Chan Juan", Sir Zheng used it very modernly: "Look at the sunrise, another day", clean and neat, stylish, and with a slide (with sound) in the "one" word, singing, it sounds more modern and more foreign.
Although there is a little nostalgia, "When to See You" is still a song with high scores in song, lyrics and singing!
（你在何方 – 原曲：《The Other Side Of The Sun》- Janis Ian， with additional music from 《On and On》- Stephen Bishop曲：A. Hammond/J. Ian （S. Bishop），词：郑国江 唱：林子祥）
Like "Goodbye When", you may forget that there is such a good song called "Where Are You", but in fact, this is a song that is no weaker than "Goodbye"! Just mentioned Lin Zixiang's preference for fox, perhaps in this regard, he is a bit the same as Janis Ian, because in the end the two did not stay in fox's music, but chose to shine in different kinds of music. Janis Ian's sudden and unprecedented success with At Seventeen has made everyone wonder if she will have another such work. "The Other Side of The Sun" did not achieve the same achievement, but it is also recognized as a good song.
This time with Janis Ian is Albert Hammond, who has an inextricable fate with Lin Zixiang. He not only helped Ah Lam create such a good song as "Where Are You", such a non-tacky, ungodly, fresh and sweet work, but also wrote a song "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" seven years later, so that Lin Zixiang had one of the high-point classic Cantonese pop works of his career, "Dare to Love and Dare to Do"!
It is also an adaptation, and I think sir Zheng wrote better words for Ah Lam this time than "The Wilderness is My Home", perhaps because the movie "The Deer Hunter" has affected me too much. But "Where Are You" doesn't have that baggage. Sir Zheng's sensibility is fully displayed in this song, and one song says the sweetness and sourness of the whole love story so intimately, so easy, easy, but of course it is not easy at all. This is Sir Zheng's skill!
The most characteristic of "Where Are You" is that Mr. Lin actually mashed up a few words of Stephen Bishop's "On and On" in "Where Are You", and you will not notice it if you do not pay attention. Although he is a senior, he could not be compared, but I thought I was very good at adapting songs, but it turned out that I could not compare with this Jun from beginning to end! The master is really the master!
"The dream is over, and the efforts to repair it are in vain..."
(to be continued… ）