Knife Lang sings "Hunchback Bells", a cover of the theme song "Hunchback Bells" from the movie "Handcuffed Passenger", originally sung by: Wu Zeng Hua.
"Camel Bell" was composed by Wang Liping and sung by Wu Zenghua. The lyrics express the tearful parting love and look forward to the good news love, is a strong comradeship, and thus become the troops, and even classmates graduation preferred, the impact is very great, and sung to this day, enduring.
Wu Zenghua was born in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, Chinese baritone singer, graduated from Shenyang Conservatory of Music in 1965, under the vocalist Professor Ding Guiwen, in 1966 the performance team was forced to interrupt the performance of the team to return to Beijing, he returned to the original unit of the Beijing Film Orchestra, which has been the period of no professional training and performances, in 1977, he only returned to the stage, in the China Film Orchestra as a He returned to the stage in 1977 and worked as a singer in the China Film Orchestra.
The song has both a sense of sadness (silent tears) and encouragement, and requires a certain low cadence rather than a high pitch, tone and expression in order to be sung in place, so singing the song well is actually quite difficult, and generally requires a baritone and a mezzo-soprano and a contralto. One of the excellent baritone Zhu Zhiwen vicissitudes of the period to sing the version to win the audience full of applause, descending Central Zhuo Ma sang low mellow.
In the last part of the song, the lyrics became more heartfelt and sad, with Wu Zeng Hua conveying through his voice the helplessness of parting and the longing for friendship. This is not only a sad parting song, but also a hymn to friendship, which teaches us to cherish the friends around us and to be grateful for every encounter and parting.
Background of "Camel Bell"
One day in 1980, Yu Yang, director of the movie "Handcuffed Passenger", made a phone call to Wang Liping, asking him if he was willing to produce music for his own movie, saying that if he wrote the song, Wang Liping would open the door to music creation for feature films, and that he would only be allowed to succeed. Although it was a joke, Wang Liping still felt the weight of it.
But as soon as he read the script, Wang Liping was a little bit confused, when the fashionable pop singing was in the ascendant, but the characters and subject matter of the movie decided that its music could not be foreign, could not follow the trend. At that time, the crew was in a small place in Yunnan, Wang Liping from Yunnan to the place where the crew needed to take five days and five nights of buses, "Camel Bell" was created in these five days.