In 1985, my family bought a dual-card tape recorder, and since then, I have said goodbye to the days of "rubbing songs" with my classmates.
Yu Yongduo
In 1985, my family bought a dual-card tape recorder, and since then, I have said goodbye to the days of "rubbing songs" with my classmates. The tape recorder was about $400, and at my insistence, my mother gritted her teeth and made this big decision, and 400 yuan had to be saved for two years. My mother's reason for convincing herself was that it was rare for a child to enjoy listening to songs. That night, my father bought the tape recorder back, but he didn't buy the cassette tape, which made me scratch my ears and scratch my cheeks. At that time, the box belt was very expensive, almost all around 10 yuan. The next day, I went to borrow a few plates from my classmates to take home and rip them, and although the sound quality was not bad, I was also drunk. Ripping is piracy, a plate empty with 3 yuan, than the original soundtrack can save 7 yuan.
One day, I was passing by a store and heard Wu Diqing's song, and his magical voice immediately attracted me, and I listened outside the store for more than an hour. When I got home, I reached out to my mother for money, and I said I was going to buy Wu Diqing's box strap. When my mother heard that it cost 10 yuan, she was also distressed, and she said perfunctorily that she would wait until after the salary was paid. My mother and I got into trouble, and I lay down and slept without even eating dinner. The next morning, I noticed a $10 bill next to my pillow. At that moment, I was a little embarrassed, and A little sad for my mother.
So, I bought Wu Diqing's first solo album , "Meilan Meilan I Love You", and from this album, I became a fan of Wu Diqing. The tape of "Merlin Melan I Love You" was rotten, and the tape clip was broken many times, forcing me to learn the ability to repair tapes. All the songs on this album are so deeply rooted in people's hearts that I can still sing them accurately.
First of all, at that time, we did not have a sense of intellectual property protection, the mainland reform and opening up was not long ago, the outside world was very novel, and ordinary people did not have the conditions to screen and identify overseas literary and artistic works, so that there were a number of singers such as Wu Diqing, Zhou Feng, Zhang Qiang, etc. who became popular by singing foreign songs. Earlier, there was the Wang Jieshi Shelis group, who successfully covered several Taiwanese school songs, which had a great impact on teenagers. People know that it turns out that the song can be sung so easily and lyrically.
After Wu Diqing became popular like a whirlwind, he soon released a second album: "Shenzhen Red Singer Wu Diqing Song Selection", this album I also bought smoothly, it seems to be selling New Year cards or selling TV newspapers to earn money, although the memory is a little vague, I still remember that the money I bought the box was earned by myself. I can still remember that I was the first customer in the store to buy this album. The salesman just opened a box and I saw it, I rushed to buy it, the salesman was happy, and gave me a Wu Diqing promotional card. The salesman also quipped that Wu Diqing's songs are not suitable for half-sized children like you.
I always think that the content of this album is the most representative of Wu Diqing's song selection and singing strength, "On the Road of Love", "Ali Baba", "The Sun Is The Same", "Spring Rain", "Galaxy Legend", each capital vividly shows the beauty of his magnetic clean voice. Not only did I like it, but my mother and my father also loved the tape, and even our upstairs neighbors were influenced to love the songs on this album. Once, after dinner, the neighbors sat in the corridor to cool off, and suddenly shouted downstairs: "Put a plate of Wu Diqing's songs." "My mother came out and asked, what song do you want to hear?" The neighbor said: Just listen to the "Ali Baba" that your little boy puts on every day.
In 1986, I bought the third box of Wu Diqing's album, "Wu Diqing Song Collection", which is very gripping, all heavy metal rhythm songs, sounding very exciting and enjoyable. At that time, I was very fond of heavy metal disco style music. The volume of the tape recorder was often set very high, and I first felt that my mother was very uncomfortable, she often frowned and walked into the house, suddenly turned the volume down, my mother warned me to spend my mind on studying, she was worried that I was going to learn badly.
The fourth chapter of the album "Evergreen Wu Diqing", of which "Evergreen", "Wine in the Cup", "Love Me", "Stringed up and scattered" and so on are love songs, at that time it was the age when the teenager did not know the taste of sorrow, and also held the guitar to imitate. Every time you sing it, it will inevitably cause a round of applause.
The fifth solo album is called "87 Wu Diqing". In the album, "Original Me", "Seventy-Two Changes", "Love Letter Map", "When" and other ten songs, I think this is a sign that Wu Diqing's interpretation style has reached a higher level, especially his slow singing emotional investment is very in place, calm, gorgeous, sad, very gripping. Later, I listened carefully to the original versions of these songs, and to be honest, most of them did not have a thorough understanding of the songs by Wu Diqing. This album also laid the foundation for Wu Diqing's important position in the Chinese music scene, I remember that Na Ying also sang for him, Na Ying's voice is very unique, the surname is also very unique, so I noticed her. Who would have thought that she would become popular in the Chinese music scene?
The songs "Love Letter Map" and "Seventy-Two Changes" were the favorites of our group of teenagers, at that time, we skipped school, stole cigarettes, stole drinks, and sang while drinking and listening, with endless energy. Wu Diqing's sixth solo album was "Wu Diqing Charm Concert" released in 1988, in this album, my favorite is "Zhang San's Song", so that later I heard Qi Qin's original singing of "Zhang San's Song" has always been unacceptable, and I always feel that it is not as good as Wu Diqing's singing.
In 1989, I bought the seventh album "Wu Diqing Yuanfei's Heart", which was no longer deeply impressed, as if I had suddenly grown up, had many things to do, and was so busy every day that I hit the back of my head with my feet and gradually snubbed the tape recorder. Later, Wu Diqing released several albums, and I did not buy them.
In 1992, I heard that Wu Diqing had gone to the sea to engage in business, and after hearing this news, I was just stunned, and my "Wu Fan" career ended.
In the mid-to-late 1990s, tape recorders were eliminated, audio-visuals entered the era of discs, and the old cassette tapes even had no platform for broadcasting. Since then, I have never had the opportunity to listen to Wu Diqing's songs again. After my mother's death, my father was depressed and did not want to see things, so he distributed all the things in the old house to relatives and friends.
The music cassetteS I had accumulated over 100 discs were gone.