In July 1989, a major event occurred in the music circles of Hong Kong and Taiwan, because a widely circulated Cantonese song triggered a war between two singers of Hong Kong and Taiwan, and finally one of them had to permanently withdraw from the music scene, while the other singer also announced that he would not participate in any music competition after this incident
This song is the classic song "A Thousand And a Thousand Songs" made by Hong Kong and Taiwan singer Chen Huixian 32 years ago and has been circulating in the domestic music industry for many years.
1. The creative experience of "A Thousand and One Songs"
In the 1980s, the Hong Kong music circle was experiencing the rise of Cantonese songs, and the Asian music culture at that time was still booming in Japan, due to language barriers and other issues, many singers in Hong Kong were committed to adapting Japanese songs into Cantonese cover songs, which gave birth to classic songs such as "Drifting Snow", "Later", "Red Sun", "Fruits of Summer", "All the Way with You", and "A Thousand Thousand Que Songs" was also produced in the context of the time, this song was originally composed by Japanese singer Makoto Kondo in 1989. Because of its beautiful and gentle tune, it is very popular in the East Asian music circle
"Xi Yan", the earliest cover song arranger in China is Chen Huixian, and later after the song was concerned, stars Mei Yanfang, Zhang Guorong, Huang Yiling and others have covered it, the most famous of which is this "Song of a Thousand And Thousand Passes" and Mei Yanfang's version of "Song of sunset"
2. "A Thousand And One Songs" was not created by Chen Huixian on her own initiative
It is worth mentioning that although as the original singer, Chen Huixian is not the adaptor of this song, at that time she did not have much memory of the Hong Kong music industry, is preparing to quit the music scene, is Chen Huixian's boyfriend Ou Dingyu, in order to help Chen Huixian build confidence and create, as a music producer, Kondo Masahiko's song just appeared by Ou Dingyu, and then invited professional lyricist Lin Zhenqiang to adapt on behalf of, and finally achieved this classic
After the successful adaptation of "A Thousand and One Songs", Chen Huixian became a hit in Hong Kong, and within ten days, the streets and alleys of the city were all fans of Chen Huixian, so that later this song became the highest representative work of her personal music career
I have to say that the song adapted by Ou Dingyu is indeed very suitable for Chen Huixian, and although the tune is a little sad, the lyrics are full of praise, which is full of his friendship with his girlfriend
3. "A Thousand And One Songs" has been sung for 30 years with typos
Although he was very strict in his lyrics, Ou Dingyu still made a mistake, so that more than ten years after the release of the song, many people did not understand what the song title really meant, and later someone explained: the meaning of the name of "Thousands of Que Songs" is actually "thousands of songs", the reason why it is difficult to understand is because the word "Que" is a typo, the correct word should be "Que (que)", although the pronunciation is the same, but in the ancient language, the meaning of 阕 is the number of words of a word, so that "Thousand Thousand Songs" It can be translated into "thousands of songs"
The biggest reason for this typo is the problem of the record company, because as early as 1984, Peng Jianxin, guitarist of the Wenna Band, released the song "A Short Song", and as a result, in the process of song proofreading, the song was mistakenly played by the staff as "a short song", and when Chen Huixian released it, she also used the mistake of that year, and the "Que" was played as "Que".
4. The "Battle of quexi" in which both sides lose
Speaking of this song, we have to mention that because it hit two singing divas that could not be opened, one was Chen Huixian and the other was Mui Yanfang, because in the adapted version of the Cantonese song, the most influential version of "Xi Yan" in China is "A Thousand Thousand Que Songs" and one is "Sunset Song", and the latter's adapted singer is Mei Yanfang, but although it comes from the same adaptation, the mood of the two songs is very different
Chen Huixian's "Song of a Thousand and One Passes" is full of reluctance and memories of emotions, which makes people slightly sad after listening to it, and belongs to the typical "little parting" song, while Mei Yanfang's "Sunset Song" is magnificent and atmospheric, the scene preparation and tone are very high, making people feel the infinite shock of the sunset
It is precisely because of the different moods of the same model that fans have a growing controversy about who adapts the best of these two songs, and finally even the original author can't watch it and joins the battleband
In fact, in terms of song popularity, Chen Huixian's "A Thousand and One Songs" has a higher audience, and Mei Yanfang's classic works have a high number of awards, and the original singer of this song at that time was Still Mei Yanfang's boyfriend, one with official authorization, one adapted without authorization, and the result of this was high and low
In the end, Chen Huixian was completely disappointed in the music circle and announced her withdrawal from the music scene, while Mui Yanfang was forced to announce her permanent withdrawal from the music competition due to the public opinion of manipulating the awards due to her personal strength
5. A song of "A Thousand and One Passes" sang away three stars
In addition to Chen Huixian, who left the music scene because of this song, the famous film star Zhang Guorong also chose to bid farewell to the entertainment circle with "A Thousand and One Songs" in his last concert
A few years later, Mei Yanfang was diagnosed with cancer, and a few days before she was asked to be hospitalized, Mei Yanfang held her own performance farewell party, and at the end of this event, she also used her adaptation of "Sunset Song" as a farewell to her personal music career
In 2002, during the hospitalization of Mei Yanfang, Zheng Nanling, president of the mainland, created a music software called "Qianqian Jing Listening", which I believe everyone used in the early years, and the original inspiration for the name of this software was Zheng Nanling's love for "Qianqian Que Song"
Later, after the advent of the smart phone era, Qianqian Jing listening has a large number of loyal users because of its small size and full resources, and the market also imitates it to appear a software called "Everyday Sound", which is also sought after by many people, but later Qianqian Jing listening software was integrated by Baidu Music because of its limited strength, and it was offline around 2013
I don't know if any of you have heard "A Thousand And Thousand Songs", and have you ever used a thousand and one quiet listening software?