Recently, Zhou Shen sang the theme song of the large-scale documentary "Forbidden City" "Light", and the whole song had ups and downs, like a grand fireworks show. At the high point, Zhou Shen used a large area of true sound like never before. The song adds the recitation and singing section of Peking Opera, singing Su Shi's famous sentence "A smoke and rain ren pingsheng", in addition to the delicate heart, to build a sense of the majesty of time and space dialogue.
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In fact, 80 years ago, the old Shanghai song world also had a strong singer, with its unique singing voice, it has a place in the strong Republican song world. Who is she?
Students who have watched "Domestic Lingling Paint" may be deeply impressed by the scene of Zhou Xingchi in the film in a white suit, chewing cigarettes, playing the piano and singing "Autumn Yinong".
This song "Autumn Yinong" originally sung by Jacky Cheung was also performed by Di Maxi on "Singer".
There is actually a Cantonese version of "Autumn Yi Nong", called "Li Xianglan". Adapted from the theme song "Don't Go" composed by Japanese composer Koji Tamaki for the Sino-Japanese co-production TV series "Farewell, Li Xianglan".
Li Xianglan, which is the Chinese name of the foreign little Lori we are going to talk about today, she is a Japanese girl, her real name is Shuko Yamaguchi.
Li Xianglan was born in Fengtian (Liaoning), and later went to Beijing to attend middle school, and also became a neighbor of Qi Baishi. At the age of 13, in order to exercise his sick lungs, he began to learn vocal music with a Russian teacher.
Similar to the experience of "Golden Voice" Zhou Xuan, Li Xianglan also won the grand prize in the pop song selection competition at a young age, and immediately "electrocuted", so a pop song was born in the silver screen.
For example, in "Wanshi Liufang", which tells the story of Lin Zexu Humen selling cigarettes, Li Xianglan played the sugar seller who used lyrics to denounce the harm of opium, leaving behind "Quit Smoking Song" and "Sugar Selling Song".
In the movie "Wanshi Liufang", the sugar seller played by Li Xianglan sang "Sugar Selling Song" in the opium hall, and the harm of opium was compiled into the lyrics.
Don't look at Li Xianglan in the play is a "Jiangnan minor" appearance, you listen carefully to her singing, but the authentic Western flower soprano, the wide range of voice, so that the aforementioned Zhou Xuan, Yao Li and other gods really can not control.
Yao Li, Zhou Xuan, and Li Xianglan (from left to right) are in the same frame
It is said that Zhou Xuan and Yao Li are both cultivated by the "Mingyue Opera Society" of Li Jinhui, the "father of modern Chinese popular music", and have an innate advantage of "Haipai". Although Li Xianglan is a "Northeast Gang", she received first-hand Western music training. Therefore, it is said that when Li Xianglan was recording, Zhou Xuan, Yao Li and other great gods were actually watching and learning from the side!
It is said that one day Zhou Xuan and Yao Li's uncle Li Jinguang (Lai Jinhui's seventh brother) created a song with European and American jazz style and rumba rhythm. But the range is too wide, there are two octaves, and Zhou Xuan, Yao Li and others can't sing it.
Coincidentally, from Li Xianglan, who came to "Shanghai Drift" in the northeast of the White Mountains and Black Waters, to the recording of the theme song of the film interviewed by EMI, he inadvertently glimpsed the lyrics on Li Jinguang's desk and hummed casually. "Uncle Seven Master" was absolutely stunned when he heard the shooting, it was almost like it was tailor-made for this little girl!
This song has not been abandoned in the "Afang Palace" because of Li Xianglan, and has not been dusted by the years. On the contrary, it has become an eternal classic. To this day, when it comes to "Night Fragrance", It must think of Li Xianglan, saying that Li Xianglan must not be able to avoid "Night Fragrance", which is the best example of "mutual achievement" between people and songs.
Next up is the gossip moment. As we said earlier, "Song Immortal" Chen Gexin wrote "Rose Rose I Love You" for Yao Li's little sister, and "Flower Years" for Miss Zhou Xuan. It may slightly soothe the embarrassment that the "sister flowers" can't sing "Night Fragrance".
However, "Ge Xian" also wrote a poem to Li Xianglan, but the name was "Hate When You Don't Meet and Don't Marry".
In 1992, Li Xianglan revisited Shanghai, met Chen Gang, the son of the "Ge Xian" and one of the authors of the violin concerto "Liang Zhu", and recalled: "I am very good with your father, if it were not for your mother and you, I would have married him." ”
The smokey past of the older generation has become a memory, but now when people hear the song "Night Incense", They will definitely think of Li Xianglan's style and exclaim: "The sound range is really wide"! (Zihua)