In 1987, Wang Jie was rejected by Li Zongsheng.
Li Zongsheng commented on Wang Jie, "The singing is too straightforward, and it will not be popular in the future." ”
Li Zongsheng
Wang Jie, who almost missed the music scene, was fished out by Li Shouquan.
Li Shouquan heard his rare sense of social vicissitudes and uninhibited uninhibitedness, and tailored the album "A Game, a Dream" for this lonely man.
As soon as the album was released, it dominated the charts for half a year.
In the next two years, Li Shouquan accompanied Wang Jie to sing all the way and pushed him to the throne of superstar, and Li Zongsheng also admired it.
In the nineties, Li Shouquan sent Wang Leehom, Zhang Hang and others to the Chinese music scene.
At this time, 20 years have passed since he promoted campus folk songs and set off a storm of music reform.
In the early 60s of the last century, Taiwan fully controlled Taiwanese songs.
People listen to songs that are either popular in Shanghai or adapted from Japan songs, and young people are old-fashioned and listen to English songs.
The development of local music was on the verge of stagnation, and aspiring people stepped forward.
In 1974, Yang Xian, Hu Defu and Li Shuangze jointly released the album "Collection of Modern Chinese Folk Songs", which opened the prelude to the Taiwan folk song movement.
In 1976, Li Shuangze attended the folk song meeting of Tamkang College of Arts and Sciences on behalf of his old friend Hu Defu and asked the students who sang English songs: You are a Chinese, why do you sing foreign songs?
And smashed the Coke bottle to the ground: "We're going to sing our own song!" ”
This famous "Tamjiang Incident" in the history of music lit a fire for the folk song movement.
The following year, Xinge Records founded the "Golden Rhyme Award" Youth Campus Folk Song Competition, encouraging young people to write and sing their own songs.
Qi Yu, Cai Qin, Qi Qin, Huang Yunling, Li Zongsheng...... One by one, we are all too familiar with the name, and thus appeared on the stage of history.
Qi Yu and Cai Qin
Many students, and even high-level intellectuals, were involved, singers were no longer wearing heavy makeup, and people's attitudes towards music changed.
The status of musicians was promoted entirely, paving the way for the rise of pop music later.
At that time, Li Shouquan saw Li Jianfu, a contestant in the second Golden Yun Award, on TV, and felt that this boy really looked like a person in a martial arts novel, and never thought that he would make an album for this boy a few years later, and the title of the album coincided with his first impression of Li Jianfu.
Li Jianfu
Qi Yu, who participated with Li Jianfu, won the Golden Rhyme Award and the first folk style double championship in one fell swoop.
After the competition, judge Li Taixiang found Qi Yu and sang "Olive Tree" composed by himself and lyrics by Sanmao, and Qi Yu became famous with a song.
Qi's father felt that the entertainment industry was too complicated and did not agree with Qi Yu to stay in this industry, so Qi Yu decided to study abroad.
When she left Xinge Records, Li Shouquan entered Xinge Records.
In 1979, Li Shouquan retired from the army, and happened to see Xinge Records recruiting producers.
Li Shouquan, who was going to work in the bank, turned around and signed up for the exam and passed the test smoothly.
In Xinge, he became acquainted with Li Jianfu, who had a martial arts novel face, and his first job was to produce the album "Descendants of the Dragon" for Li Jianfu.
Album "Descendants of the Dragon"
Li Shouquan did not receive an orthodox music education, and his music foundation came from the five or six thousand English records he had listened to when he was a student.
Influenced by this, he wanted to change the fresh folk songs and popularize the campus folk songs.
Nowadays, making music is agent-oriented, and where the agent points to, the music wind will blow wherever it goes.
In the early days, making music was production-oriented, and the producer's positioning of the album would become the mainstream direction of the market.
The eclectic Li Shouquan put the Western way of making music into Li Jianfu's album.
"Homecoming" is a cello dialogue, and "Love in the Wilderness" is played on flamenco guitar.
The special style made the album popular after its release, and Li Jianfu became popular all over Taiwan.
As the first person to eat crabs, Li Shouquan was successful.
Wang Leehom and Li Shouquan
But at that time in the record company, it was stipulated that the producer could not hang his name, Li Shouquan was unhappy, and left Xinge after making four albums, and formed a "Tianshui Music Collection" studio with Li Jianfu, Cai Qin, Su Lai and others.
It is the first production company in Taiwan, but it has no capital at all.
At that time, China was popular in Taiwan, and Lin Huaimin founded the first modern dance company in the Chinese world, "Cloud Gate Dance Collection", which was taken from "When the Yellow Emperor was in the time of the Yellow Emperor, Da Rong made Cloud Gate" in "Lü's Spring and Autumn"; Guo Xiaozhuang founded "Yayin Xiaoji" and devoted himself to music reform.
So Li Shouquan took the name of "Tianshui Music Collection", which shows the ambitions and ideals of several people.
When the studio was founded, they said "no one else, no business".
It's a pity that "Tianshui Music Collection" only launched two albums, "Chaila Khan" and "A Thousand Springs", and announced its disbandment.
Album "A Thousand Springs"
"The moon kisses the silver-white grassland, the dew is cold and the camp is bright, the love songs sing that the cattle and sheep are asleep, the sun burns the golden sand, the breeze blows the yellow sand, the cooking smoke rises and the camel bells ring."
The lyrics reveal a strong literary atmosphere, and the arrangement integrates the form of modern pop music, and the singing of Li Jianfu and Cai Qin is compared to the water of Huangshan and Taihu Lake, Guilin and the wind of the falling mountains, and the clouds and mist of Huashan and Wushan.
The overly humanistic concept of music does not meet the needs of the mass market, and although it does not lose money, it is far from being as good as imagined.
coincided with the personnel change in the studio, Li Jianfu was going to be a soldier, and Cai Qin was becoming more and more popular.
Li Shouquan thought that a small workshop like ours should not hold her back, so he simply disbanded.
Li Shouquan, who had a successful career, was hit for the first time, "Sometimes the most fun and painful part of pop music is that you don't know why it succeeded, and it doesn't know why he failed." ”
This puzzle has not been solved to this day.
However, the two works of "Chaila Khan" and "A Thousand Springs" can be called a monument in the Chinese music scene, and they have been talked about by industry insiders for decades.
When the "Tianshui Music Collection" was disbanded, the two-year-old Rolling Stone released Luo Dayou's first album "Zhihu Ye", which talked about current politics and exposed the disadvantages of the times, like a lightning bolt, so that hypocrisy and chaos could not be hidden.
And Li Shouquan's next album ""Wrong Car" Movie Original Soundtrack" produced for Su Rui is regarded as another revolution in the creation of Taiwan's music scene at that time after Luo Dayou's "Zhihu Ye" in 1982.
The entire Taiwan music scene began to enter the popular era under the self-burning of idealists.
In 1982, Li Shouquan disbanded the "Tianshui Music Collection" and devoted himself to the production of the album "Tian Lan" by the Rolling Stone female general Pan Yueyun, which won three awards in one fell swoop: Best Producer (Li Shouquan), Best Singing (Pan Yueyun) and Best Arrangement (Chen Zhiyuan), and was hailed as a timeless work in the late folk song era.
When Pan Yueyun became popular, Su Rui had just signed a contract with UFO Records, and soon released his first album "The Wrong Car Movie Soundtrack".
The album, still produced by Li Shouquan, is the first film soundtrack record in the history of Taiwan's pop music development, and is often referred to as "The Same Moonlight" in the mainland.
It was an instant hit, selling more than one million copies.
The theme song "If the Wine Sells Nothing" has been covered many times by later generations.
Before this, Taiwan songs have been popular in the style of wind and snow, youth and ideals, dressed in black, with a high-pitched voice, Su Rui, with the blessing of Li Shouquan's rock style, set off a strong "black whirlwind" after Luo Dayou, known as "Black Su Rui".
It is regarded as another revolution in the history of Taiwan pop music after "Zhihu Ye", which was another revolution in the Taiwan music scene at that time.
It was indeed a booming era.
Rolling Stone has three godfathers, Luo Dayou, Li Zongsheng, and Little Worm, and flying saucers have "Five Chen and Two Li" Chen Zhiyuan, Chen Lerong, Chen Dali, Chen Xiunan, Chen Yaochuan, Li Ziheng, and Li Shouquan.
Luo Dayou and Li Shouquan
Added up is a legend multiplied by a legend.
A mainland media reporter asked Li Shouquan if he knew the name of the flying saucer "Five Chen Er Li", Li Shouquan looked at a loss, and after the reporter explained to him, Li Shouquan said domineeringly, put Er Li in front of him after trouble.
Yang Yue, a senior media person, once said: Looking back on the past 30 years, there have been two earth-shattering events in the Chinese pop music scene.
Once a musician from Taiwan made "Tomorrow Will Be Better", and the next year, when the world was peaceful, the mainland had a song "Let the World Be Full of Love".
1984年，英国歌手菲尔·科林斯和鲍勃·格尔多夫召集了十余位歌手录制了歌曲《Do they know it's Christmas》，为非洲饥民筹集善款。
The move impressed United States singer Harry · Belafonte, who was married to Michael · Jackson and Lionel · Richie co-wrote a song calling on 45 singers to spend the night recording "We Are The World."
Taiwan musicians were deeply touched and gathered a total of 60 Chinese singers from different regions and different record companies to jointly write "Tomorrow Will Be Better".
Li Shouquan was in charge of the production, and no one had any suspicion or exclusion, and no one minded what position they sang.
The song was released in Hong Kong with all proceeds being donated.
The lyrics and songs of the song were originally written by Luo Dayou, but Luo Dayou's lyrics are usually critical, and everyone thinks that it is not very appropriate as "Tomorrow Will Be Better".
Zhang Aijia proposed to change it together, so you and I said a word, showing the final lyrics.
But this charity was taken advantage of by politicians, and a beautiful musical act of kindness ended unhappily at the time.
Time has proven the power of music itself, and for more than 30 years, it has continued to appear on every occasion that calls for love and peace.
As Li Shouquan said when he was young, whether a song is good or not will be talked about thirty years later.
Whether a singer is good or not, the same is true.
When Chen Lerong first wrote "Annie" for Wang Jie, he was rejected by Li Shouquan, who thought that the writing was too literary and artistic, and said to Chen Lerong:
"Wang Jie is not an intellectual, you have to let him have no distance, love everyone from workers to housewives, don't play tricks."
Wang Jie, who was not favored by Li Zongsheng back then, has a distinctive image that is very in line with his own temperament under Li Shouquan's creation, and he soared into the sky.
Rolling Stone couldn't regret it, so he could only move Qi Qin out to suppress the formation.
After Wang Jie, Li Shouquan's work pace slowed down.
Li Shouquan, who has made so many records for others, has actually released a record himself.
The well-known "Zhang San's Song" is from this album called "8 and a Half".
Many people first listened to "Zhang San's Song" from Cai Qin's version, and listened to it as a love song.
In fact, the background of this song has nothing to do with love.
The story of the song comes from Zhang Zishi, a friend of Li Shouquan.
Zhang Zishi has always had a United States dream, so he thought of a way to let his wife and a friend fake marriage stay in United States, and then put the child in the past.
Unexpectedly, his wife and that friend made the fake come true, Zhang Zishi's dream of United States came true, but the home was gone.
Li Shouquan once invited Zhang Zishi to come back and make music together.
Zhang Zishiren didn't reply, and sent back a lyric, which was "Zhang San's Song".
He stayed in United States for his two children and worked in a very dangerous job, "although he did not have beautiful clothes, but his heart was full of hope." ”
Perhaps thinking that he was ridiculous, Zhang Zishi wrote another song "Rainbow in California", which was also included in Li Shouquan's "8 and a Half" album.
He satirized that the pretty girl who yearns for United States is looking for a rainbow in California.
It doesn't rain in California, and in a place where it doesn't rain, how can you find a rainbow.
Later, Zhang Zishi died of a serious illness, leaving a few lyrics to be sung in the world.
"8 and 1/2" is a very special work, Li Shouquan has collaborated with many great writers in Taiwan, such as Wu Nianzhen, Zhang Dachun, and Zhan Hongzhi, which is rare.
When he wrote "The Future of the Future," he and Zhang Dachun were chatting with a lot of people around a small café in downtown Taipei.
Album Introduction
He said to Zhang Dachun, imagine that it's like making a movie, the camera moves from a room to a window, and it's raining outside the window, and then pushes it out, there is the sound of rain, and the sound of cars coming and going on the street.
Zhang Dachun wrote, "The rain and the sound of cars crowded the window, and I stayed on the edge of the city. ”
Every song seems to be the hesitation of all kinds of people in society.
"Broken Corner" comes from a story I saw on the news about a man who played the harmonica and sold chewing gum "couldn't escape the merciless persecution of the ticket".
When the lyrics were written, he and Zhang Dachun heard that this person had committed suicide by setting fire to the fire.
Instead of making a tragic footnote to this man, they wrote: There is no need for sympathy and no charity, and the crippled me also has a song of life.
Even such a bleak life has a kind of humanity in their eyes.
This is an era of ideals and good intentions.
Writers, music producers, and singers came together to create a musical scene.
Li Shouquan in this era, and then went to another road.
Li Shouquan once met a fortune teller, and the fortune teller told him that he could do religious music.
Li Shouquan felt how could this be possible, but asked casually: Will it make money?
The other party said: No, it will earn merit and become world-famous.
How could it be world-famous, Li Shouquan didn't believe it at all.
Around 2000, Li Shouquan was invited to write the school song for Tzu Chi University, thus forming a bond with Tzu Chi.
Later, he traveled with Tzu Chi to various parts of the world to witness their good deeds, and was inspired to write "Love Sprinkles the World", which has been translated into countless languages.
Sure enough, it spread all over the world.
Li Shouquan had heard about the mental journey of the Venerable Master Zhengyan to build the hospital, and when he returned to Taipei, he suddenly thought of the words "winding mountains and mountains", and then remembered his hometown Jiufen.
Jiufen was once an ordinary village, but since the discovery of gold mines in 1893, it has prospered, and a large number of gold prospectors have flocked to the village, which originally had only nine households, and has quickly developed into a small town of 30,000 or 40,000 people.
By the time Lee was born, the scenery of Jiufen was about to come to an end, and a few years later it became a popular attraction because of Hou Hsiao-hsien's "City of Sadness" and Miyazaki's animation.
Li Shouquan, who left his hometown, calmly watched the ups and downs of Jiufen, and occasionally recalled his childhood.
He remembers that when someone was sick, the adults would remove the door panel and carry the patient to the hospital, and when Jiufen could not find proper treatment, someone would go to Luodong St. Mary's Hospital or Keelung Hospital to see a doctor.
Thinking of this state of mind that crossed the mountains, he experienced the mood of the Venerable Master Zhengyan.
Li Shouquan still remembers that the residential area of Jiufen and the grave area are very close to each other, and when someone in the family dies, they will not be sent directly to the grave, but will go around Jiufen City, as if to say goodbye to the entire Jiufen.
In that clammy atmosphere, he often wondered if the people in the grave were listening to the ticking sound of rain just like him.
Perhaps when he was very young, Li Shouquan already had his own understanding of life, life and death.
He sang in "The Way Home": The way you can't find is goodbye.
But the way home will always be there, and the world is still bright.
Resources:
1, Phoenix.com is very Taoist - Li Shouquan
2. Lighting the lamp: the indifference behind the prosperity - Li Shouquan
3. How awesome the "Rolling Stone Records" of the last century were, and today's young people don't know it
4. Interview with Taiwan's gold medal producer Li Shouquan: The golden age has passed
5, Li Shouquan: Some of the presentations of mainland music in recent years have been too hard| Interview