Twenty-seven years ago, on October 27, 1994, Chow Hua Jian released the Cantonese album "Reunion with Strings".
This is Chow Wah Kin's first Cantonese album, and before that, the success of the two albums "Let Me Rejoice and Make Me Worry" and "Flower Heart" has made him a superstar in the Chinese music scene. After Shunshi won the Taiwan Golden Melody Award for Best Male Singer, Zhou Huajian released his first Cantonese single "Once the Sea is Love" at the end of 1993, preparing to launch a charge against the Cantonese music scene.
"Stringed Together" vividly shows the ambitions of Rolling Stone Records and Zhou Huajian, the album contains a total of ten songs and a pure music, although most of them are Cantonese covers of Zhou Huajian's classic Chinese songs, but this kind of goal is clear, the song selection is precise, and the well-made customized cover makes the album achieve a pop sensation effect in the shortest time, and it has just been listed for three consecutive weeks on the Hong Kong record sales chart, and stayed on the chart for fourteen weeks.
The album's most famous work is "Who Did You Marry Last Night" based on "Tomorrow I'm Going to Marry You".
The original song is a pure love song from a woman's perspective, it did not become popular at that time, and Zhou Huajian once blamed the song for not being popular because Rolling Stones did not make an MV for this work. At that time, Zhou Huajian and Li Zongsheng and other Rolling Stones executives did not expect that after the song was changed to Cantonese, Lin Xi's new filler words from the perspective of a man actually made it have another kind of affection.
This is the most interesting part of the different cantonese versions of the song, after listening to the Chinese version of "Tomorrow I will marry you / Tomorrow I will marry you / If you don't ask me / If you don't persuade me / If it's not the right time / You make my heart move", and then listen to the Cantonese version of "If you and I lived again / Last night you married me / Who will replace me / Who can replace me / Everyone stares at you for a moment / You seem to be looking at me", as if experiencing two love and two lives.
In this regard, I don't know if friends have similar feelings. Two works, the Chinese version is the ideal, and the Cantonese version is the reality. If you put both in the same scene, the Chinese version of the male and female protagonist sweetly accepts the blessing of the crowd, while the Cantonese version of the male protagonist stands in the corner of the crowd and silently watches who will open the heroine's wedding dress.
It is also the strong empathy of the song itself, "Who did you marry last night" won the RTHK Top Ten Chinese Golden Melody "Best Original Song" Award, the Top Ten Outstanding Pop Singer Awards and the "Best Original Song Award" and other twelve heavyweight awards, and Zhou Huajian's first battle into Hong Kong won a victory.
Looking back now, "Gathering with Strings" belongs to the typical "Raptor Crossing the River". Even if the four heavenly kings were red and purple at that time, Zhou Huajian was not inferior, and with his super popularity and super strength, he was called "Heavenly King Killer" by the Hong Kong media.
After "Gathering with Strings" made a start, Zhou Huajian was full of confidence and performed more easily in the Cantonese music scene.
I believe that everyone must have the same feeling, those years Zhou Huajian's Cantonese albums seem to be more sophisticated than Chinese albums. If nothing else, just by virtue of the peak Cantonese trilogy composed of "There are strings together", "Strings have you", and "Strings and Strings Complete", it is enough to prove Zhou Huajian's terror rule at that time.
Unfortunately, after the release of the Cantonese selection "Listening Tojian" in 1998, we never heard of his new Cantonese album. Now many young fan friends, in addition to the "Difficult To Read Sutra", may not know that Zhou Huajian has sung other Cantonese songs.
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