Sweet Honey is a song sung by Teresa Teng. The soundtrack of this song is taken from Indonesian folk songs and composed by Zhuang Nu.
This song was produced by Hong Kong Polaroid Company and was first recorded in Teresa Teng's solo album "Unforgettable Day" by Taiwan Province Goering Records Company. It was released in Taiwan Province Province and other places on September 20th, 1979. Subsequently, Hong Kong Polaroid included the song in the album Sweet Honey, which was released in Hong Kong and other places on June 5438+0979165438+10/0/5.
This song became the first Chinese song of Hong Kong Commercial Radio in the third week of June 1979 1 1, and it was one of the earliest popular songs promoted and sung in Chinese mainland [1]. In 2008, Sweet Honey was selected as one of the top ten classic songs in the 30 years of reform and opening up by Southern Weekend.
The score of Sweet Honey is taken from Indonesian folk song "Big Boat", which was adapted into many Chinese songs in 1950s, such as Huang's "Boat Song" and "Poor Alberta". In the mid-1970s, in order to thank fans in Indonesia and other places for their love, Teresa Teng signed a contract with Indra Records of Indonesia and recorded 28 songs in Indonesian. Most of these songs are written in Indonesian, including Teresa Teng's representative works and some Indonesian native songs sung for her. Among them, she recorded the Indonesian folk song Dayong Sampan on 1977.
Because Teresa Teng was satisfied with the melody of Dayang sampan when recording 1977, in the late 1970s, the record producer of Hong Kong Polaroid Company decided to use the melody of Dayang sampan to make Mandarin songs while preparing Mandarin records with Teresa Teng. Finally, the music score was given to Zhuang Nu by Polaroid employees. After receiving the music, Zhuang Nu asked people that this song was for Teresa Teng. Because Zhuang Nu and Teresa Teng had never met before, Zhuang Nu only saw Teresa Teng himself on TV, and a female singer with a sweet face and beautiful singing voice suddenly appeared in his mind, which was associated with the word "sweet honey". So, just five minutes to complete the lyrics of Sweet Honey [4]. Zhuang Nu said that if it weren't for Teresa Teng, he might not have written such lyrics. If he hadn't thought of writing them to Teresa Teng, perhaps the lyrics would be very different. Zhuang Nu said that his writing is not good, but his melody is good. Let other poets write it, which may be better than him, but by chance, I met him, filled in "Sweet Honey" and sang it to Teresa Teng.
From 65438 to 0979, when Teresa Teng was studying at the University of Southern California, producer Deng Xiquan flew from Hong Kong to the United States with his music accompaniment and master tape, and Teresa Teng completed vocal recording in the music grinding studio in Los Angeles.