Thanks, Sarafina. I feel the intro song is a, well, a song because it was sung in Cantonese. I feel that if it's "just" an intro they made up, instead of picked from somewhere, they wouldn't bother singing it in Canto, cos they are Mandarin speakers... if that makes sense?
And thanks for the Love & Passion. Will look at it, also will listen to your Chyi Yu video now.
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This Xiu Xiu movie must be a very sad one! I think I'll skip it for now... but I have to say Chyi Yu sang the Whispering Steppes beautifully. I had her collection in my iTunes before I stopped using iTunes (got the 3 months free). Then after a few months I returned to iTunes, but I forgot about her. You reminded me again of her... time to listen to those songs again...
Back to the TVB songs, what's Love and Passion about in summary? anyone knows?
I would like to know too. =)Originally Posted by Icha Parvati
In the meantime, let's enjoy more music!
Wakin Chau and Chyi Yu reunion after 21 years since RoCH95 collab. They sing again the RoCH theme in mandarin. The music starts around 2mins in. The beginning was just Wakin explaining his relationship with Chyi Yu and how she helped him break into the business. It's pretty much a summary of his bio on wiki.
Wikipedia
“Wakin had high hopes to establish a career as a recording artist, and he actively sought out contacts in the music industry. But a persistent lack of interest eventually led him to give up trying to become a performer – instead, he could sign on as an assistant producer at Rock Records, where he wrote marketable pop songs for other artists.
Wakin was later encouraged by Chyi Yu to sing some jingles for commercial advertising spots. One of these tunes was for a car commercial, and it happened to catch the attention of Wakin's boss at Rock, who realised it was the voice of his own assistant producer.
That moment opened the door for Wakin to record and release his first Mandarin album under the Rock Records label in 1987. For a man who had dreamed of performing professionally but had settled on being a record producer, this was a period of particularly good fortune that launched a succession of chart-topping records.”
The MV playing on the big screen in the background during the reunion duet was the original MV of the song.
ah okay, thanks.
Btw, I received input from "TVBFan" that the first song in the Jiangsu TV Spring Gala was actually "Triumph in the Sky". I checked the link, and he/she was right.
So we do have 8 songs for the Jiangsu Gala...
Awesome. Thank you so much for posting the video link! Do you know what Triumph in the Sky is about? I'm going to go watch the clip right now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBcC1C1uuwU
Found this lovely video....
One of my favorite on screen couples and favorite series =)
Anyone remember this series?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_on_the_Road
Recently started watching General Father, General Son and wondering what is Chan man yee up to now a days.
I don't know what she's doing career-wise, but she's a very active born-again Christian and actually participates in Chinese Christian seminars, sharing about how her faith changed her life, and the pressures she faces because her husband Liu Kai-chi is not very supportive of it (although I don't know whether it's because he's an atheist or of another faith).
Thank you everyone for sharing those YouTube videos. I feel like I grew up in the wrong era sometimes. I wish I was old enough in the 80's and 90's to enjoy all these series. I have to go through hoops and ladders to find a place to watch those. Luckily, some were dubbed into Vietnamese so I can watch those (I wish I could understand cantonese/mandarin, ugh).
To this day, I'm obsessed with costume/historical/ancient series because I grew up loving all these older series.
Always in search of great historical/costume dramas.
Find me on MyDramaList ^_^
It doesn't help that TVB makes it difficult for newer generations to enjoy and appreciate their older series. Their official DVDs are outrageously priced and many are heavily cut and edited from the original. My poor RoCH with Andy Lau practically got butchered. I definitely remember scenes from the VHS rental version from my school days that did not show up in the DVD.
I haven't seen the DVD version of ROCH, but I will agree that they edit and cut out a lot of scenes. I was watching the VCD version of LOCH and a lot of scenes I remember from VHS version got cut. It happens with ATV series as well. Sometimes you can tell it was cut because the sequence doesn't flow.