Today is also a hilarious, first wish the song god Jacky Cheung a happy 60th birthday. In the mainland, this age can be retired. Of course, a few years later, it may take a few more months to retire. And beyond... After that, what do you want it to do? Live in the moment, just fine!
Then I picked an early album, Love, to listen to.
Released in 1986, the album "Love" is Jacky Cheung's third solo album, this album in my impression, has not been introduced to the mainland, and the first two albums, "Zhongxiang Guangzhou" merged into one album, and named "Aimu (Cantonese Version)" after the introduction. The reason why I want to write a special Cantonese version is because at the same time, "Zhongsheng Guangzhou" also introduced "Aimu (Mandarin Version)", which is actually the "Love Without Four Returns" album released by Taiwan's "Qi Fei Records".
I remember when I first went online in the late 1990s, I felt like I was finally opening a new window in my musical horizons, because I could see a lot of information and feelings shared by fans across the country and even around the world. Among them, there is a post that impressed me particularly, that is, it listed a list of unpopular songs for Jacky Cheung, including "Blue Rain" and "The Windbreaker's Trench coat" in the "Love" album.
This statement may make Hong Kong fans who have experienced the era of Xueyou's debut crazy, because the four songs of "Don't Fall in Love", "Love", "The Windbreaker's Trench coat" and "Blue Rain" are all the platform songs and title songs of Jacky Cheung's album at that time.
I don't know if I remember correctly, the early "Meika Audio-Visual" actually introduced a tape of Jacky Cheung, called "Yesterday's Love", the song in it is actually the merger of "In my heart" and "Confused Love", the name "Yesterday's Love" itself is a song in "Confused Love".
In this tape, there is the song "Blue Rain", but unlike the "Blue Rain" in the "Love" album, that "Blue Rain" uses the "Pot Winter Melon" version of "In the Depths of My Heart".
Therefore, I have the impression that the album "Love" should not have been introduced, nor has it been imported by "Zhongtu". From this point of view, it is not impossible for mainland fans to recognize "Blue Rain" as an unpopular song. Sometimes the different communication channels can indeed make fans in different regions have a very large deviation in impression cognition. Just like Fei Xiang's influence on Taiwan's music scene and his influence on the mainland music scene, they are not at all on the same level.
The Album of "Love" and "Distant Her · Amour was released in the same year, so that only two years after entering the industry, Jacky Cheung already had three personal albums, and I have to say that Bao Ji at that time attached great importance to him.
In the third solo album, Jacky Cheung has become the top pillar of the Mesozoic Generation with the experience of a quasi-newcomer. After all, who made his first two albums sell so well. Therefore, in the third album, Jacky Cheung has even brought up new people.
This newcomer is Li Keqin, who is also the brother of the "Eighteenth District Amateur Singing Competition", Jacky Cheung is the first, and Li Keqin is the third. In this album, the two collaborated on a song "OH!NO!", saying that the cooperation may be a bit inconsistent with Baoji's original intention, and more rigorously, it is a helper. It is also true that although the age difference is not large, in this song, Jacky Cheung's thick voice line and Li Keqin's youthful interpretation really have a kind of everyone's style.
"OH!NO!" is also Li Keqin's first personal recording, or half a song.
This album still sounds clear and full of layers, and I have to admire many recordings in Hong Kong in the 1980s, especially the international major lines of "EMI Records", "CBS/SONY" and "Polygram Records", as well as the local line "Entertainment Records" that are paranoid about recordings, and their recordings are exemplary in production to this day.
Don't think that the recording is just to pile up the material, the recording pays attention to the hierarchical logic. Therefore, although there were not many arranging elements of the record in that year, it was still not bad compared to the current recording, because the logic was reasonable.
The album "Love" features most of the Japanese musicians, including Filipinos like Rudi and local musicians like Au Tin Yu, Jiang Gangsheng and Su Dehua. Many of the recordings of this album were also completed in Japan, so at that time it was a typical international level album.
Of course, the lack of creativity in Hong Kong is in the face of an extremely hungry market, so the lack of originality is also clearly reflected in this album. Half of the album's artworks were purchased and refilled with foreign songs, especially Japanese pop music. The title song like "Don't Love" comes from the best-selling song "マイナーコードに Heartsbreak" of the same year, and listening to SALLY's original song, especially with the old MV, really has a john Lennon feeling.
The filler of "Don't Love" is very interesting, called Little Whale, in addition to this song, she also filled in the Chinese words "Late At Night" for Jacky Cheung. This little whale is a special presence for Hong Kong pop music. It is rumored that she was Jacky Cheung's girlfriend outside the circle. Interestingly, in March of this year, Jacky Cheung later determined the relationship between male and female friends because he and Luo Meiwei filmed "Crazy Me". Therefore, if in the second half of the same year, there is also a girlfriend outside the circle who fills in the words for Jacky Cheung, it is also a very suspenseful thing.
But in the end, although they experienced a breakup, Jacky Cheung and Luo Meiwei still "fell in love", and once they loved, they loved to the present, and later Jacky Cheung personally wrote a song called "Tell You Know".
Writing songs is really a sharp weapon for brothers and sisters, showing love and sprinkling dog food!
The album's title song "Love", in the inner pages of different versions, are signed by the composer Lin Minyi, filler Lin Mincong, this song has another version, called "Love と哀しみのラストショー", which was also an interlude sung by the Japanese idol group The Checkers for the movie "Song For U.S.A."
Don't get excited, the cover relationship between these two songs this time is reversed. That is the original song of "Love", it is Jacky Cheung, The Checkers is the cover, and the Japanese version of the filler is Fujii Yuya. Works created by Japanese singers covering musicians in Hong Kong, China, are also extremely rare examples, and seeing this, you have no feeling of raising your eyebrows!
In fact, the last album really spread the most, but it is the two "unpopular" songs: "Blue Rain" and "The Windbreaker's Trench coat". The original work of "Blue Rain" is Tokuei's "Rainy Blue", and in those years, the Hong Kong music scene also liked to use Deyong's songs, especially Jacky Cheung and Tam Wing Lin.
In addition to "Blue Rain", I also particularly like the songs written by Tokunaga Hideaki, such as "Sun and Stars", "Love and Righteousness", and "Don't Say Goodbye".
And the song "The Windbreaker's Trench coat", until 2016, "Huanya Music" released the commemorative record "Brother's Song", many people know that this song turned out to be Zhang Guorong's "abandoned song". Because his brother was preparing to jump from "Huaxing Records" to Chen Shaobao's newly established "New Yibao Records", "Huaxing Records" shelved this song, and Lin Minyi also transferred his works to Baoji and became the works of Jacky Cheung.
Of course, these two versions of "The Pilot's Trench coat", there are still differences in local details, you can see one as a small sample, one is a finished product, such a comparison, for clarifying the creation process of a song, it is still quite interesting.
The album's "Breeze" was the theme song written by Gu Jiahui for the TVB drama "Prince Xiaobao" at that time, and "Warm" was an advertising song written by Lin Mincong for "Nescafe", but compared with the advertising version of only thirty seconds, this song is not broken, not broken, or basically no advertising traces.
At that time, the lyrics of the advertising version were "add more fun, erase a little tiredness, life is full of light, enjoy freedom, at this moment, gently speak Nescafe". As far as mainlanders are concerned, after "speaking softly", the sentence I want to pick up is that the taste is very good! Those who understand this sentence, hehe
The cover, back cover and inside page photos of this album were all taken in Macau, and the bridge behind the cover and back cover is obviously the Macau Taipa Bridge in Macau...
