The original singer of The Song of Four Seasons is Zhou Xuan.
Zhou Xuan (August 1, 1920 - September 22, 1957), born in Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province, was a Chinese film actress and singer who joined the Mingyue Song and Dance Troupe in 1931, and gained attention for her performance of the song "Light of the Nation".
Composed by Tian Han and adapted by He Luting from the Suzhou folk tune "Crying Seven Sevens", the song was an interlude of the 1937 film "The Angel of the Road", which was selected as one of the "Hundred Golden Songs of Chinese Cinema in 100 Years" by the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and China Filmmakers' Association on July 5, 2005.
Chinese film actress and singer, born in Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province, China.
Song Background:
The Song of Four Seasons is an interlude of the movie The Road Angel. During the filming of the movie "Road Angel", director Yuan Muzhi found the then popular Suzhou folk tune "Crying Seven Seasons" and asked Tian Han to rewrite the lyrics and He Luting to adapt it.
He Luting, after accepting the task of adapting the song, collected the records of "Crying Seven Sevens" made by various record companies and listened to them again and again, comparing them to each other, focusing on the merits of various folk singers, and processing the melody artistically to make it complete, and created "Song of the Four Seasons"
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