This is a popular song - Grandma's Penghu Bay.
It has memories of childhood. When we enter junior high school, we have lost our innocence.
Let us use this song to find our own childhood
The song "Grandma's Penghu Bay" has become the endorsement song for Penghu tourism. Sung for nearly 30 years, this song is also the famous song of singer Pan Anbang. It was the first time that folk singer Ye Jiaxiu wrote lyrics and composed music for others. , sixth graders, and even seventh and eighth graders can hum along, and even people from the mainland on the other side can sing it, which shows its charm that transcends generations and regions.
Musician Ye Jiaxiu met Pan Anbang under the arrangement of the record company in 1968. He learned about Pan Anbang’s childhood love story with his grandmother and grandchildren in Penghu, and wrote this song for him. Pan Anbang immediately used it that day. Public phone, long distance call from Taipei to Penghu to grandma. He said that he sang this song on the phone at that time, but there was no sound on the other end of the phone after he finished singing. He could feel his grandmother sobbing and crying.
There are many stories about Pan Anbang and his grandmother's ancestors and grandchildren behind the song "Grandma's Penghu Bay". Sing his own story with true feelings, Pan Anbang can sing it once in the recording studio! After the record was released, the song became a hit, and so did Pan Anbang. He also had the opportunity to return to Penghu and perform on stage at the theater where he watched movies when he was a child. His grandmother also came.
Pan Anbang said that his grandmother had severe arthritis, and the Zhongxing Theater had many stairs, but in order to watch his performance, her grandmother climbed up the stairs step by step and sat on the seat where he sang that day. He couldn't help but shed tears during this song, because he felt that his grandmother was working hard to watch her grandson's performance.
This song and Pan Anbang later became popular all the way to the mainland. In 1990, Pan Anbang was going to Changsha, Sichuan to perform a few performances with several singers. However, he received the bad news that his grandmother had passed away. He gave up the performance and immediately ran back to Penghu. As a result, riots broke out on the first day of the performance when Pan Anbang did not perform. Many people The audience threw tables and chairs in protest, and Pan Anbang had no choice but to hold back his grief and rush to Changsha.
Pan Anbang said that when he came on stage, he told the audience that his grandmother had passed away. The scene went into an uproar and then became quiet. Then suddenly the words "Grandma's Penghu Bay" came out from the 20,000 audience members. Pan Anbang, who originally only planned to go on stage to say an apology, decided to sing Grandma's Penghu Bay for the last time. However, an unexplainable phenomenon occurred. This song he had sung tens of thousands of times, he sang it for the first time. None of the three notes matched up with the opening melody, and then the speaker made an inexplicable and strange sound.
Pan Anbang pointed out that the stage around the sound system began to chirp and rattle. He and the sound engineer looked at each other. After checking, he found that the sound system was fine, so he told his grandmother in his heart that this time it was for her. Singing, hoping that grandma would let him finish singing the song well, he finally sang it smoothly.
"That was my grandma holding my hand with a stick, walking through the dusk towards Penghu Bay where the afterglow was warm... Each footprint was a string of laughter, killing a lot of time until the night swallowed us up and we were returning home. "On the way" Pan Anbang said that when he sang to Penghu Bay, he thought of his grandmother lying in Penghu Magong, and tears fell. The audience below began to sing along. The scene was unforgettable for him, and some audience members comforted him not to be sad, grandma Will also hear it.