Title: Tears at the Iron Window
Originally sung by Zhai Huimin and Zhang Xiuyan
Lyrics:
The iron door, the iron window, the iron chains
I look out with my hands on the iron window
How wonderful life is outside
When will I return to my home
Lines of chains are holding me down
Friends listen to me. I'll sing a song
It's a song of regret and hate
I'll fly with the song
The moon shines in my heart
I'm thinking of my mother in prison
I regret that I didn't listen to my mother
And now I'm a prisoner
The moon shines in my mother's heart
I'm thinking of my mother in prison
I'm not only regretful and hateful, I'm not only hateful and hateful
I'll be back to my home when I'm chained up
And friends, listen to me.
In the early 1980s, Chi Chi starred in films such as "Little Characters," "Sunset Street" and "Moonlight in the Mid-Autumn Festival."
Chi was sentenced to four years' imprisonment for hooliganism in 1983, and his sentence was commuted to four years' imprisonment in 1985, after which he was sentenced to four years in prison. In 1983, Chi was sentenced to four years in prison for hooliganism, and in 1985, he was released from prison after a two-year sentence reduction and returned to Changsha Film Studio.
August 1988 to 1990, Chi Zhiqiang successively released personal experience as the theme of the "prison song" tape: "tears of remorse", "embrace tomorrow", the circulation of 10 million disks, which "tears" and other songs quickly sung across the country, and then once withdrew from the entertainment industry and business.
According to Zhou Yaping, in 1988, he was transferred to the Beijing Culture and Art Audiovisual Publishing House as an editor, and thought of doing a "prison song" theme. At that time, Chi Zhiqiang was already famous for starring in the movie "Little Characters", and later was jailed for the so-called "hooliganism", the ups and downs of his life experience let Zhou Yaping smelled a business opportunity.
At that time, the publisher paid Chi a deposit of 20,000 yuan, and then the publisher put out the news that Chi was going to release an album of prison songs, which was quickly targeted by audio-visual product distributors, with two companies in Beijing paying 500,000 yuan in advance for the publication, and the national order quantity exceeding 5 million copies. Although everything went well, but according to Zhou Yaping, Chi himself is not a good singer, in order to make the album from the inside out can satisfy people, had to Lee instead of someone else to sing.
Later Zhou Yaping from Changchun to find a little-known local cabaret singer, only 17 years old Zhai Huimin voice sadness and vicissitudes of life, unique, especially in the subtle rhyme. So, Zhou Yaping spared no effort to open a high price of 300,000 yuan to invite him into the studio, Chi album with a crying voice of the desolate voice, in fact, all of Zhai Huimin's. However, after the recording, Zhai Huimin's voice was not the same. However, Zhai Huimin was paid only 50,000 yuan after recording the entire album.
The album also featured Chi Zhiqiang, who was responsible for the recitation portion of the album. Zhou Yaping revealed that in the recording studio, Chi recited the words "the greatest tragedy in life is none other than the loss of freedom; the greatest pain in life is none other than the loss of loved ones and friends," he was in tears several times. It is reported, because Chi Zhiqiang is a long shadow factory actors, and only responsible for the album "tears of remorse" recitation part, so he was paid only 1500 yuan.