"Your voice / Your song / Forever imprinted in / My heart ..." On the stage of the Spring Festival Gala in 1983, Li Guyi sang a song "Nostalgia" with a rounded and clear voice, making the audience feel like a spring breeze. This has also become a classic scene in the history of the Spring Festival Gala.
"Back then, Li Gu sang 8 songs by himself, and now 8 people sing a song." Jiang Kun once recalled the grand occasion of the first Spring Festival Gala in 1983 with crosstalk at the Spring Festival Gala in 2009. That year, Li Gu sang a total of 8 songs at the Spring Festival Gala, and "Nostalgia" was the most influential one.
However, what many people don't know is that the interpretation of this song is due to the audience's high voice, so it is temporarily "added".
In order to maintain communication and interaction with the audience, four telephones were specially set up in the first Spring Festival Gala in 1983 to connect directly to the scene. The enthusiasm of the audience was high, the telephone ringtone basically did not stop for more than an hour from noon on the day of the Spring Festival Gala broadcast to more than an hour after the party was broadcast, and the huge operating load even made the cables emit white smoke, and the program team had to invite the fire brigade to "wait" in case of accidents.
Many viewers ordered Li Guyi's "Nostalgia" on the phone, which made the director difficult.
"Nostalgia" is the theme song of the 1979 hit TV film, this song because of the use of air vocals, and the melody is slow, so that the audience of the year is refreshing, but it was also subject to the controversy of "the sound of silence", and it did not land on the mainstream platform for a long time.
Sing or not sing? General Director Huang Yihe could only ask Wu Lengxi, director of the Radio and Television Department, who was sitting on the scene. At first, Wu Lengxi did not agree, but in the face of plate after plate of on-demand notes full of "Nostalgia", Wu Lengxi felt great pressure, he once took off his glasses, wiped sweat, and even began to take small steps in circles, and finally let go of the words ——— "sing"! The director was relieved.
This is the classic moment of the 1983 Spring Festival Gala. Behind this song " Nostalgia" contains the new wind of reform and opening up, ideological emancipation and the increasingly rich cultural life of the people, and also represents the Pursuit and Closeness of the Spring Festival Gala to the trend of the times and the emotions of the people.