"Rose, Rose, I Love You" is an episode of China's famous film "Genv" in the 1940s, and it is also the first Chinese pop song in the world to be covered in English.
The Singing Girl (194 1), written and directed by Shanghai film pioneer Wucun, tells the tragic wandering life of the singer Xiaolan. Zhou Xuan plays the leading role in the film "The Song Girl Xiaolan", and Yao Li makes a guest appearance with another singer.
"Rose, Rose, I Love You" was written by film director wucun, composed by famous composer Chen Gexin and sung by Yao Li. It was popular in Shanghai in the 1940s, and then spread to the United States, becoming the first popular song in China. 195 1 year, Rose I Love You, which was adapted into jazz style by American singer Frankie Laine, quickly became popular in the United States and once ranked third in the national pop music charts. So far, no Chinese pop song can surpass its influence overseas.
Rose, Rose, I Love You
Rose, rose, I love you with a painful heart.
What is your future, and now we have to part?
I stood on the dock when the ship left.
Flower of Malaya, I can't stay.
Make way, oh, make way for my oriental rose.
Wherever she goes, men flock.
In her rickshaw, on the street or in a hotel.
Please make way for Ross,
You can hear them say.
I will remember it all my life.
Oriental music and you in my arms
The fragrant flowers in your hair
Fragrant breeze and swaying palm trees
Rose, rose, I love you with your almond eyes.
Fragrant and slender under the tropical sky.
I must cross the ocean again and never see you again.
Back to my home on the distant coast
I will remember it all my life.
Oriental music and you in my arms
The fragrant flowers in your hair
Fragrant breeze and swaying palm trees
Rose, Rose I leave you, my boat is in the bay.
Now kiss me goodbye, there is nothing to say.
East is East, West is West,
Our worlds are far apart.
I must leave you now, but I leave my heart behind.
Rose, rose, I love you with a painful heart.
What is your future, and now we have to part?
I stood on the dock when the ship left.
Flower of Malaya, I can't stay.
Rose, Rose I love you, I can't stay.
It is said that Frankie Laine didn't know who the original author was when he covered this song. This popular song in the United States has accumulated millions of dollars in royalties in a few years. The American record company once published a newspaper offering a reward for finding an original composer, but during the Korean War, Chen Gexin was unable to make it because of the tension between China and the United States, and did not get royalties.
Love is always blown away by wind and rain. 1957, Chen Gexin was classified as a "Rightist" and sent to work in Baimaoling Farm in Anhui Province. 196 1 starved to death in the local area during the great famine in. At the age of 47.
Compared with the tragic experience of Chen Gexin, the fate of singer Yao Li seems to be much smoother. Born in 192 1, Miss Yao Li is 95 years old and is the only one of the "Seven Singers" in Shanghai.
"When I was a child, I listened to the phonograph, and all the streets were broadcasting Zhou Xuan. I have only one idol in my life, that is, Zhou Xuan. I grew up singing her songs. "
Yao Li was born in 192 1. He lost his father when he was a child and his family was in trouble. He followed his brother Yao Min everywhere since he was a child. Brother and sister often go to the radio to perform together, and soon they become famous. On a singing program of charitable donation, Zhou Xuan, who participated in the performance, heard Yao Li's singing and praised her, and immediately recommended her to record. Soon, Shanghai EMI Records Company recorded her debut album "Selling Acacia".
/kloc-where does she know what acacia is at the age of 0/6? Singing in such a daze, but also unveiled her dazzling superstar career.
During that time, "Selling Acacia" was repeatedly played on the radio, and Yao Li immediately became a professional singer with EMI records. She introduced her brother, Yao Min, as a singer and composer. Together, they wrote many famous works.
"The boss Yue Xian came to see me. At that time, no one invited a little Chinese girl to sing in all the dance halls in Shanghai. Yue Xian is very famous, so I was the only one who sang ... "At that time, how many records she recorded, the exact number has been impossible to verify. But songs like "Rose Rose I Love You" are still popular.
1949, when the situation was turbulent, Yao Li moved to Hong Kong with his family. Many nightclubs in Hong Kong came here to invite them to join, but they were all declined. She chose to continue to cooperate with EMI Records, which moved to Hong Kong, and become a full-time studio singer. The cooperation lasted for ten years. EMI Records commented on Yao Li as follows: "She has been a unique singer for nearly 20 years, and her latecomers are second to none." If in those years in Hong Kong, Yao Li has been following in the footsteps of Zhou Xuan, then in Hong Kong, it can be said that Yao Li really found her own appearance. There are more kinds of music in Hong Kong, and Yao Li's free control of human voice has reached a new level after absorbing the blues singing in black music.
Her singing style influenced later Teresa Teng and countless young female singers from Hong Kong and Taiwan through Teresa Teng.
Teresa Teng's father is a fan of Yao Li. He said to Teresa Teng, "If you want to sing, you must visit Yao Li." So Teresa Teng came to Hong Kong to meet Yao Li.
Yao Li and Chen Gexin collaborated on two other very important songs.
Suzhou riverside
Yao Li by Suzhou River-Classic Mandarin Old Songs 14
"We lost our way and wandered by the dark river, wondering whether the world abandoned us or we forgot him."
In the previous article "Li Xianglan, Gone with the Wind in the Republic of China, for whom Jacky Cheung shed tears", we already know that Chen Gexin is a textbook-like romantic genius.
Although he had a family, the musician in charge of EMI was still having an affair. Yao Li and Chen Gexin also had an affair.
The song "Suzhou Riverside" originated from an outing. Originally, a group of people were together, but when they left, they became Chen Gexin and Yao Li. "I have never told anyone that he and I wrote this song hand in hand by the Suzhou River."
"Suzhou Riverside" hides Yao Li's girl worries. A female singer in her early twenties, a musical genius who made people fall in love at first sight, knew well, but for many reasons, she didn't go any further. What is truly romantic is only the mood of walking that day.
Congratulations.
Congratulations to Yao Li-Star Club 8
"Congratulations on getting rich", which is circulated endlessly in China during the Spring Festival every year, was actually born half a century ago. Like Rose Rose I Love You, the original song was composed by Chen Gexin and sung by Yao Li. This song was written in the first New Year after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.
Every street, every mouth,
The first thing you say when you meet is congratulations. ...
Winter is over, which is good news.
The warm spring breeze will awaken the earth. ...
The vast ice and snow melt and plum blossoms are in full bloom.
After a long night, I heard a rooster crow. ...
After many difficulties and tests,
How many hearts are expecting new news. ...
Congratulations, congratulations, congratulations. ...
1946 During the Spring Festival, Chen Gexin wrote the New Year song "Congratulations". This song will become the most important New Year song in the Chinese world in the future (and become the brainwashing divine comedy in the supermarket after the Millennium). However, if you listen to the original song "Congratulations", you will find that there is a desolation in this uncertain song besides the joyful melody.