My Chinese Heart James Wong background information?

Wong Chim, Wong Fook Ling and My Chinese Heart Wong Chim (1941-2004), formerly known as Wong Cham Sum, was born in Shunde, Guangdong Province, and was originally from Panyu, Guangdong. In 1949, he moved to Hong Kong with his parents and was admitted to La Salle College. In 1960, he was admitted to the Chinese Department of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Hong Kong, graduated in 1963 and taught at Pui Shing Middle School for two years. 1965, he hosted a TV program as an amateur and wrote a newspaper column. In September of the same year, he joined the advertising department of British American Tobacco and was promoted to the position of Assistant Advertising Manager in 1968, after writing the jingle "Good things come naturally when you open a Remy Martin. In 1969, he was awarded the Best Male Emcee Award for TV Programs and was called the "Prince of Television". 1970, he was transferred to Ling-McCann-Erickson as a co-creative director and was the first to be awarded the "Keogh Award", the highest honor in the American advertising industry. "He was the first Hong Konger to win the Clio Award, the highest honor in the advertising industry in the U.S. In 1972, he was appointed General Manager of Cathay Advertising, and in the same year, he became a member of the Board of Directors of the Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong (CASH), and in 1973, he and his friends founded Cauldron Cinematics, the first Hong Kong based film company. In 1973, he founded Cauldron Cinematics with his friend and wrote and directed Paradise, which was one of the top ten selling movies of the year. In the same year, he wrote a collection of adult jokes called "The Unwritten Collection", and in 1976, he and his talented girlfriend, Yanni Lin, founded the "Huang & Lin Advertising Agency", of which he was the chairman. In 1979, Wong Chim wrote the theme song of the same name, "Under the Lion Rock", which gave great encouragement to the people of Hong Kong at the beginning of the economic take-off, and was later used as the city song of Hong Kong. . The songs "Under the Lion Rock" and "Hong Kong is My Home" with lyrics written by him accompanied the growth of Hong Kong people in the 1970s. In early March 2003, the former Financial Secretary of the HKSAR Government, Mr. Antony Leung Kam-chung, summed up his maiden Budget Speech with the theme song of "Under the Lion Rock", which immediately aroused an enthusiastic response from Hong Kong people. According to a statistic, within two weeks after the lyrics of "Under the Lion Rock" were published in the press, more than 160 articles on the theme of "Under the Lion Rock" appeared in Hong Kong's newspapers and magazines, which is a testament to its far-reaching impact on Hong Kong society.In 1978, the works "Swear to Enter the Mountain of Knives", "Leaning on the Heaven and Slaughtering the Dragon", and "Crocodile Tears" were included in the "The First Ten Greatest Chinese Golden Songs" by Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK). Zhang Mingmin (Vocalist of "My Chinese Heart") In 1979, Taiwanese school ballads were very hot, and Hong Kong's Eternal Records boss, Teng Bingheng, thought it might be a good choice to publish Mandarin records in Hong Kong. At that time, Hong Kong had already implemented royalties on music creation, and the more popular the song, the more royalties the creator got. With Cantonese songs being so popular, almost no one was willing to write Mandarin songs. At that time, singers who sang Mandarin songs were called "ethnic singers". In 1980, Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher began talks. Against this background, the owner of the company saw this as a great opportunity and started planning a new album for me. Deng Bingheng found Huang Zhan, who had become popular for writing Cantonese songs, and asked him to write a Mandarin song. Huang Zhi offered the same price as the Cantonese song, and Tang Bingheng agreed. Huang Zhan wrote "My Chinese Heart", which was later composed by Wang Fuling, and the company decided to use the song as the title of the album. In 1982, "My Chinese Heart" was published, and it didn't become as popular as the company expected, with low sales and mediocre social reaction. Hong Kong people began to call me a "patriotic singer". In Hong Kong at that time, such a name had an ironic meaning. 1983, China and the United Kingdom started formal talks on the Hong Kong issue, and against this political background, CCTV's Spring Festival Gala made a bold attempt to invite Hong Kong artists to perform at the Gala. At that time, my boss did not approve of me singing at the CCTV gala and blocked my record release in Taiwan if I did. In 1984, I sang "My Chinese Heart" and "Walking on Monopoly" at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, a performance that brought me into millions of homes, and the song became an instant hit. There were several sacks of letters from the audience to CCTV, and I was dumbfounded and very excited when I looked at them. Then the media in Hong Kong started to call me a "leftist singer" because of my performance on CCTV. After I returned to Hong Kong, my situation remained unchanged. Around 1985 to 1986, I met Huang Zhan again at a dinner party and told him that "My Chinese Heart" had become a hit in the Mainland and was sung by hundreds of millions of Chinese people, and I thanked him for writing such a good song. He didn't believe me and thought I was joking with him, just saying, "What's the point of being a hit?" At that time, he was not in a good financial position, and China had not joined the international copyright conventions, so he could not receive a penny of royalties even if "My Chinese Heart" was a hit in the Mainland. Including his "Shanghai Tang", following the broadcast of the TV series in the Mainland, it was also a hit, and was repeatedly broadcasted on radio and TV, and published in newspapers and magazines, but he did not get any royalties either. So, at that time, Huang Zhan even joked, "Just help me get those royalties back." Although he didn't get a penny, Huang Zhan was still very happy. Because at that time, the mainland's Reference News published an article about a Xinhua News Agency reporter visiting Deng Xiaoping's family life, saying that one afternoon in Zhongnanhai, Deng Xiaoping was with his grandchildren, teaching them to sing the song "My Chinese Heart". This article was later reprinted in a Hong Kong newspaper. In 1987, I officially entered the mainland market and my solo album sold like hot cakes as soon as it was published in the Mainland. Later, as I had to publish a new album, I invited Wong Chim to dinner and asked him to write a song for me, and he agreed to do so. Later, I waited for a very long time, and I do not know what the reason was, but he never wrote it. He also took some royalties from My Chinese Heart after the Mainland joined the international copyright conventions and implemented a royalty system.