Chapter 10 [Chapter 1] The past

(Taiwanese pop music before 1975) Don't be disrespectful and prejudiced against pop songs. Do you think that human emotions have been fully expressed by those classical masters Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven? --Musician Sheng Jialun Taiwan's popular music during the Japanese occupation period (1895-1945) mainly included traditional folk songs (Nanguan, Beiguan, Gezai Opera), Japanese style called "Nakashi" (walking singing) during the Japanese occupation period Music and "era songs" popular in the Mainland from the 1920s to the 1940s. The popularization of Taiwanese records began in 1925, when small turntables sold for only three to five cents each began to be released, and the material was made of thick cardboard coated with celluloid. Before 1931, although there were many record companies in Taiwan, most of the records released were Gezai opera, folk songs, and tea-picking songs, which could not be called ballads. After 1930, the Japanese-hosted Gulumiya Records Company began to create and record Taiwan's native songs from a long-term perspective.

In 1949, the Kuomintang government moved to Taiwan. In the 1950s, Taiwan's society was extremely unstable, and the economic order had not yet formed, so the recording industry as an entertainment industry could not be established.Many people who came to Taiwan from the Mainland hope to re-establish the previous life style in Taiwan, and they have become the main consumers of the "Song of the Times".What is played on local radio stations and sung in dance halls are still old Shanghai-style pop songs of Zhou Xuan and Baiguang. , "Lover's Tears") and Taiwan's Zhou Lanping ("Green Island Serenade"), etc.In addition, due to historical reasons, Japanese songs also have a large audience in Taiwan. Many karaoke halls at that time still retained the performance style of many Japanese-style costumes imitating Japanese folk singers in the 1940s.

In the 1960s, due to the introduction of foreign capital, Taiwan's economy showed an upward trend, and economic development led to the prosperity of the record industry.The more active singers include Ziwei, Mei Dai, Xi Jingting, Yao Li, etc. Among them, Ziwei's album "Green Island Serenade" sold 200,000 copies. In 1965, the United States fully intervened in the Vietnam War, and Taiwan was planned as a logistics area for the Vietnam War. The number of American soldiers vacationing in Taiwan increased, resulting in the prosperity of PUB and small bars.At that time, there were many resident singers in the clubs of the U.S. military base. This kind of atmosphere not only made the singers but also the public have a considerable understanding of English pop songs. Therefore, Taiwan has also become a large English song market.Famous singers in the western music world, such as Bob Dylan (Bob Dylan), Joan Benz (Joan Baez) and others, are popular among intellectuals for their songs about anti-war, equality, peace, and civil rights, so most people, especially Intellectuals are more inclined to listen to and sing Western songs (that is, popular music), thereby rejecting local pop music and criticizing it as decadent music.

In Taiwan, popular music (literal translation of HITSONG means best-selling and well-known songs, since DJ Fei Li used it in the name of the radio program he hosted in the late 1950s, the word mostly refers to Western music, especially American music, which is popular among young people. Music Everyone Loves) was initially promoted by a few radio shows.The earliest radio programs started broadcasting in the mid-to-late 1950s. Arthur from Zhengsheng, Youshi, and "Jingguang" stations, Jieping from Air Force Radio, and Fei Li from "Hot Music" on the same channel, "Jingguang" and "Zhongguo" "Guang" Ma Jun was the most well-known DJ in Taiwan in the early days.At the same time, the trend of forming popular bands and holding concerts has gradually formed, such as Comet, Locke, Three Brothers, Giants, Haiyun, etc., were the performing bands in the early concert venues.In addition, the U.S. military radio station (AFNT), which started broadcasting in 1954 and further expanded its equipment in 1957, is also an important communication medium.

The strongholds based on American clubs and hotel nightclubs have driven the development of popular music bands, such as Electric Star, Thunderbird, Stone Age, MJD and other bands in the mid-1960s, as well as Sunshine, Time, Aixon, Crystal, and others in the early 1970s. Mother Goose, etc. At the same time, the reprint record industry was also flourishing in the late 1960s. For example, the "Voice of Students" series of Condor Company almost produced one film per month. In the process of constant contact and listening, young people learned some basic singing and accompaniment skills, starting with a guitar, and embarked on a road that was regarded as an avant-garde music at that time.But at the same time, the phenomena brought about by popular music, such as singers and music fans with long hair, exotic clothes, and dance parties, were criticized as immoral and were not accepted by the society at that time.Especially in some popular music concerts, in addition to booing heterogeneous music and opening soda bottles, some music fans even set off firecrackers, smoke marijuana, and cut chair cushions when they hear excitement. Sometimes the organizers have to ask Military police to maintain order.When some of the more famous and popular choirs sang, such as Time in the 1970s and 2001, they were even described as "the most likely to cause audience riots".

While Western songs were popular, some creators of Chinese songs appeared, but because it was still a period of martial law, many themes could not be touched, and most of the lyrics were still limited to the expression of love, which to some extent suppressed Mandarin pop music. process of localization. From the mid-to-late 1960s, Taiwan's economy entered a stage of comprehensive development, and the record industry, mainly pop songs, began to take shape.In the early 1970s, local popular music magazines appeared, and Taiwan had become the center of Chinese pop songs in Southeast Asia. There were more than 200 registered audio publishing companies. development of the recording industry.

Part 1: The Breeze Blows Across the Face (Taiwanese pop music) When people are getting old, they have to rely on the magic hand of memory to try their best to bring back the long-lost years.Most of those who miss are either homesick or people. --Taiwanese lyricist Wang Changxiong Statistics were made when Taiwan had a population of 21 million: Hakkas accounted for 12%, aborigines accounted for only 1.7%, and Hokkien accounted for 73.3%.Such a large population proportion makes the Hoklo language family (Heluo dialect) of the Hokkien people gain the dominance of the Taiwanese dialect. During the fifty years from 1945 to 1995, Hakka and Aboriginal songs had no opportunity or status to be represented in the mainstream media.Taiwan's ethnic consciousness and provincial complex have been used by politicians for a long time. With the advent of the era of martial law in the 1980s and the end of various authoritarian policies, various dialects and mother tongues that were suppressed by the government in the past have gradually gained attention.In the 1990s, politicians, the public, and the media began to reflect on the integration of ethnic groups in Taiwan, so that the consciousness of ethnic groups and provincial nationality no longer got out of control.

For a long time, the people who pioneered the land of Taiwan created many unforgettable ballads, reflecting the unique customs, social changes and living conditions here.For example, "The Sky is Dark", "A Bird Roars to the Rescue", "Du Diu Tong", these ballads whose names are unknown are long stored in the childhood memories of many people. In the summer of 2000, Stefanie Sun, who had just debuted, became famous in one fell swoop with a song of the same name incorporating the ancient ballad "Dark Black", and singing "Dark Black, It's About to Rain" in Taiwanese suddenly became a symbol.

Usually, the period from 1932 to 1940 is regarded as the first golden period for the creation of Taiwanese ballads.Many excellent creators broke through the ban imposed by the Japanese in 1917, and made a name for Taiwanese songs through wild stage operas or tavern girls' singing, and became an important source of saliva songs (that is, old song covers) in the 1990s. The creation of Taiwanese ballads has experienced a heyday and a period of depression, and it was not until the 1990s that it regained its due attention.The development process of more than half a century really needs to start from the beginning.

Next: I have a love (Mandarin pop music). The footsteps of music must be stepped forward, and we cannot stick to it. For example, our Taiwan is the tune of Gezai Opera, or we are that kind of melody, but we keep our characteristics and keep it. Their colorfulness adorns us and our oriental and local music. --Musician Zuo Hongyuan Before 1945, there was no market for Mandarin songs in Taiwan.The languages ​​used in Taiwan are only Japanese and other Taiwanese local languages. Taiwanese people read Chinese documents in Heluo (Southern Hokkien) or Hakka.The development of Taiwan's Mandarin pop songs began after the Kuomintang government moved to Taiwan in 1949, and the market for Mandarin songs gradually formed.

Around 1945, among the Mandarin songs that were popular in Taiwan from the mainland, there was "Congratulations Congratulations" written and composed by Chen Gexin (the father of the composer Chen Gang). Jia Yao Min, this song is still sung all over the streets and alleys during the Chinese New Year in Taiwan.Chen Gexin was a master of pop music in China in the 1930s and 1940s. He was known as the "song fairy". In his early years, he studied composition, vocal music, piano and conducting with foreign musician Frank.She has created quite a lot in her life, including "Congratulations", "Rose Rose I Love You", "In the Mood for Love", "By the Suzhou River", "Phoenix Flying", "Night Shanghai", "Fisher Girl" and so on.In the early years, under the influence of the "Leftist League", he composed anti-Japanese songs and was arrested by the Japanese military police. At the same time, Lu Xun's wife Xu Guangping was also escorted into the prison van.During his detention, he was subjected to torture such as electric chair, pepper spray, tiger bench, and dog bites to extract a confession, but Chen Gexin only said "I am a Chinese" and did not implicate anyone. In 1961, Chen Gexin was wrongly classified as a rightist, and died of illness due to hunger at the age of 46. Li Jinguang, a pop music master in the 1930s and 1940s, died of illness in Shanghai in 1983.Many of Li Jinguang's works have been spread to Taiwan. His "Evening Fragrance" may be the most frequently covered Mandarin song in the past 70 years, but he lived in poverty all his life and was fearful.Chen Gexin once said that if Li Jinguang went abroad to collect the manuscript fee for "Rose Rose I Love You", he could donate an airplane to the country. The time when he said this was in the 1950s. In 1950, after the recovery of Taiwan, the theme song "High Mountain Green" (lyrics by Deng Yuping and music by Chang Cheh), the theme song of the first Mandarin feature film "Alishan Fengyun" (also known as "Wu Feng Biography") was very popular. In 1984, Hong Kong singer Xi Xiulan was invited to sing this song at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala. Why do I shed tears for you / Don’t you understand that it’s for love / Only those tears of a lover are the most precious / Every tear is love / All are love / Why do I shed tears for you / Don’t you understand it’s for love / If it weren’t for a lover who wanted to separate from me/my tears wouldn’t fall/fall down/good spring comes/spring flowers are blooming/how can you be willing to say goodbye/I’m in a deep boudoir/Looking beyond autumn water/don’t forget that my love is as deep as the sea -- "Lover's Tears" (1950) Lyricist: Chen Dieyi Music: Yao Min In the 1950s, it was the reprint period of Taiwanese Mandarin pop music. The record company first obtained the master film from Hong Kong or foreign countries, and then made a reprinted record in Taiwan . 1950 was also the happiest year for Hong Kong-based composer Yao Min. Except for "Nanping Evening Bell", which was composed by Wang Fuling and written by Fang Da (Chen Dieyi), the other popular songs were Signed by Yao Min, Mei Weng or Du Fen, all were written by Yao Min."Spring Breeze Kiss My Face", "I Want to Sing For You", "I'm a Thrush Bird", "Rain in the East Mountain and Sunshine in the West Mountain", "Lover Mountain", "Where the River Flows" by Yao Min and Chen Dieyi "Dongliu", "Little Sheep Going Home" and "Lover's Tears" were all the most popular Mandarin hits of the year. Chen Dieyi collaborated with Yao Min, usually writing lyrics according to the order.Even so, there are still countless masterpieces left.Chen Dieyi wrote more than 5,000 poems in his life. In "Lover's Tears", both the singer and the waiter are women. This appeal was the mainstream of early Mandarin pop music. In the 1990s, Lin Yilian once sang this song.Another achievement of Chen Dieyi is to have a son Chen Xieyang who became a famous conductor. Chen Dieyi's first marriage was an old-style marriage.When Chen Xieyang was very young, his father abandoned the mother and son, and until the mother died young at the age of 39, he still harbored hatred in his heart.After his father went to Hong Kong, the two lost contact.Twenty-six years later, Chen Xieyang, who has become a conductor, finally found out about his father. At the age of 42, he finally saw his father again. At that time, Chen Dieyi was already 73 years old. It is said that "I Have a Love" created by Chen Dieyi was written to miss his son and his hometown.Although he lost his father's love since childhood, Chen Xieyang can still have such achievements, which is his father's greatest pride. In 2002, a concert of Chen Dieyi's works was held in Macau, and Chen Xieyang was the conductor. It was the first collaboration between father and son.That year, Chen Dieyi was 94 years old. In 1953, "Green Island Serenade", composed by Zhou Lanping, written by Pan Yingjie and sung by Ziwei, is a song describing the scenery of Taiwan.The song didn't attract enough attention at first, but it was popular in Taiwan after a few years due to the praise of the Nanyang Chinese, and Ziwei became the best-selling singer. Zhou Lanping, like Lu Quansheng, also worked in the music group of the "China Broadcasting Corporation" when he first came to Taiwan. Later, he was encouraged by friends to start writing music.Due to the relationship between Zhou Lanping and Lu Quansheng in "Zhongguang", the staff of "Zhongguang" played an indispensable role in the early development of Taiwanese pop music.It is said that Zhou Sheng also wrote more than 5,000 works.Among his works, the more famous ones are "Willing to Marry Han Jialang" written by Zhuang Nu and "Eighteen Girls and One Flower" written by Qiu Ru. The 1960s was a period when Taiwanese pop music was self-produced, and it could even be exported to Southeast Asian markets.At that time, record companies such as Haishan and Volkswagen invited musicians from Hong Kong and Shanghai to record "songs of the era", most of which were still the works of Yao Min, Chen Dieyi and others. Therefore, Taiwanese Mandarin was popular at that time. The music is called Harbor School (that is, Shanghai and Hong Kong).The development and dissemination of the film industry has also resulted in the popularity of film theme songs, and some political songs have also been promoted by mainstream media. At this time, in addition to records, the communication channels also included karaoke halls, radio stations, movies and television, among which the launch of "Taiwan TV" in 1962 had the greatest impact.Singers began to pay attention to their own image. For example, the singers Zhang Qi, Ziwei, Ran Xiaoling, Jin Yan, Xie Lei, etc. in "Taiwan TV" and "All Stars" were the most representative at that time. They had gorgeous appearance and walked on Broadway The form of stage performance began to have the posture of a star artist. "China Television" and "China Television" have been launched one after another, and TV variety shows are an important base for promoting popular songs, making records sell well and singers becoming popular.The style of playing songs was fully transmitted from Dongyang, making Yao Surong, Teresa Teng, Feng Feifei, Zhen Ni, Liu Wenzheng, Cui Taijing and other singers even more powerful to become superstars familiar to Taiwanese fans. Record companies have also begun to cultivate local first-generation songwriter talents. In the late 1960s, a large number of songwriters with cross-age significance appeared in the Taiwanese music scene. Their attention and efforts to local original works brought pop music back to life.Representatives among them - Zhuang Nu, Zuo Hongyuan, Liu Jiachang, Sun Yi, and Tony also began to attract the attention of the public during that time. Some people say that in the 30 years of Taiwan's Chinese pop music scene, there were three pivotal figures, namely Liu Jiachang in the 1970s, Luo Dayou in the 1980s and Li Zongsheng in the 1990s.Li Zongsheng once said that his early creation of "Cloud and Mist" had the taste of Liu Jiachang. He believed that Liu Jiachang was a musician who had a great influence on Taiwan's music scene in the 1970s, and he was also a miracle in the creative industry, because in Liu Jiachang's heyday During the period, there were nearly 20 popular songs a year. Considering the current development of the music scene, this is almost an impossible task.Li Zongsheng said: "The melody and chords of Liu Jiachang's songs are very simple, and they are easy to move people's hearts. It may only take a few strings or a few minutes to complete, but they have an excellent sense of melody, and they will write songs that everyone likes. The melody is unmatched among the creators of Chinese pop songs today. "Meilan, Meilan, I love you/You are like an orchid flower fascinated/You are like a plum blossom that is green every year/When you see Meilan, you will Thinking of you/Meilan Meilan I love you/You are like an orchid fascinated/You are like plum blossoms that are green every year/I think of you when I see Meilan/I want to love you forever/Because you have breath/I want forever I am with you forever/Together in this life and forever/I love you Meilan Meilan/You are like an orchid fascinated by people/You are like a plum blossom that is green every year/I think of you when I see Meilan--"Meilan Meilan I Love You" "Lyricist: Liu Jiachang Singing: Liu Wenzheng Liu Jiachang was born in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province in 1940. He moved to South Korea with his parents when he was young. He graduated from National Chengchi University in Taiwan in 1962. In 1966, Liu Jiachang began to engage in music creation, mainly for film soundtracks and writing film songs. In the 1970s, Liu Jiachang's songs became popular and cultivated a large number of heavyweights in the music scene.After that, Liu Jiachang turned from music creation to film shooting.At the peak of his creation, Liu Jiachang once helped many singers write songs at the same time, and it also happened that many singers were recording Teacher Liu's songs at the same time in the same recording studio.There are many singers brought into the industry by Liu Jiachang, such as Liu Wenzheng, Zhen Ni, Zhang Aijia, Fei Yuqing, Chen Shuhua, Feng Feifei, Yang Lin... Many of Liu Jiachang's classic works flowed to the mainland in the 1980s, which greatly influenced the mainland. The progress of popular music, such as "Late", "Good Night Song", "Meilan Meilan I Love You", "Where is My Home", "The Past Can Only Be Reminisced", "Seagull", "Yilian Youmeng", " Autumn Poems", "Just Live for You One Day" and "Thousands of Miles on the Road of Love", etc., and his later creations "In the Rain" and "I am Chinese" are also well-known masterpieces. Twenty years ago, Liu Jiachang retired from the music scene and lived in the United States with his wife Zhen Zhen. In 2001, Liu Jiachang moved back with his family and settled in Shanghai.Zhen Zhen was the heroine of the Qiong Yao movie who was as famous as Lin Qingxia and Lin Fengjiao in the 1970s. The news of Liu Jiachang's marriage to Zhen Zhen was once a sensation.Zhen Zhen, who has been cleansed of lead, concentrates on caring for her husband and raising children, while Liu Jiachang said when talking about his wife: "We two are very serious. I admit that men sometimes play tricks on the spot, but I can say that I have never betrayed her spiritually. But, if I have a choice, I hope to be her son in the next life, not her husband. She loves her son so much that she wants to go to the sky to pick the moon. I can’t describe it too much, she is a good mother Good mother...I hope I die before my wife, she can't die before me, I can't live if she dies before me." Zuo Hongyuan once told a story about Liu Jiachang: Once he was popular The host Bai Jiali found him and said that he wanted to sing, and Zuo Hongyuan introduced her to Liu Jiachang.As a result, when Bai Jiali was still shaking her body and waving her hands while singing with expressive expressions, Teacher Liu disappeared, leaving only the staff and Bai Jiali.After singing, Bai Jiali asked: "Teacher, do you think I sing well?" Looking up again, the teacher was gone.Bai Jiali cried to Zuo Hongyuan that night, Zuo Hongyuan was also very anxious, and found Liu Jiachang in the middle of the night, "How can you give up halfway as a teacher? Bai Jiali was singing, why did you run away?" Liu Jiachang said helplessly: "In the whole world, Bai Jiali only knows five notes, but these five notes are not accurate." This is also Liu Jiachang's consistent style. He must sing Liu's style of singing, regardless of whether it is male or female.Zuo Hongyuan felt very headache at that time, so he had to write songs for Bai Jiali himself, such as "Happy Meeting" and "Lovely Stranger". The host also became popular in the music scene. Although the two good friends have different ways of doing things, they are both doing what they are most interested in. Music is the most fun thing for them.Because of their youth, and because of their playfulness, they have become popular musicians. Good wine and coffee/I just want to drink one cup/I think of the past/Drink a second cup/Knowing that love is like flowing water/Whoever he loves/I want good wine and coffee/One cup after another/I'm not drunk/I'm just a heart Broken child/Open stamens/How can you shed tears/If your heart is also broken/Have a drink with you/I want fine wine and coffee/One cup after another--"Wine and Coffee" Lyrics: Lin Huang Kun Opera: Gu Yue (Zuo Hong Yuan) Singing: Teresa Teng Zuo Hongyuan was an assistant teacher of classical music at the university, and played piano part-time in "Taiwan Radio Station".He writes a children's song every week and publishes it in a radio magazine. These popular children's songs are popular with children and young mothers all over Taiwan, such as "Big Rooster", "Ugly Duckling", "The Sun Comes Out" and so on.But because he was afraid of his teacher's objection, Zuo Hongyuan used the pseudonym "Gu Yue" when he first published his works-Gu Yue is Hu. He said that writing songs is to dare to think wildly.He began to write and produce pop songs for Yao Surong, Teresa Teng, Zhen Ni, and Feng Feifei. To a certain extent, the fame of these singers also benefited from the cultivation of Zuo Hongyuan.After the singer became popular, he was managed by an agent, but he didn't make any money, and he was so poor that he didn't even have enough money to eat a bowl of beef noodles, but Zuo Hongyuan thought it was the happiest and happiest time in his life. Stage, he and these entertainers can be friends for life. After Zuo Hongyuan gave up classical music and devoted himself to pop music, he competed with Liu Jiachang in writing songs--Liu Jiachang wrote "Meilan Meilan I Love You", Zuo Hongyuan wrote "Wine and Coffee", Liu Jiachang wrote "The Past Only Can Aftertaste", Zuo Hongyuan wrote "How Do You Say".Liu Jiachang entered the music industry also because of Zuo Hongyuan's introduction. The two have different personalities, but they are very good friends.At that time, the bosses of record companies were mostly pirates. They bought a Japanese record and stole it, or re-filled the lyrics in Taiwanese on the Japanese song.Liu Jiachang decided "not to play with them" for Zuo Hongyuan.They started to make movies, and Liu Jiachang not only wrote and sang, but also starred in it sometimes. Zhuang Nu is the real master of Ci in Taiwan and has composed no less than 3,000 Ci poems.It is said that it took him only five minutes to create "Sweet Honey" for Teresa Teng, and although he and Teresa Teng have only met a limited number of times, they are like father and daughter.At present, Zhuang Nu has settled down with his family in Chongqing, the city where he lived for many years before going to Taiwan. Some people say that "without Zhuang Nu, there would be no Teresa Teng", and some people say that "Teng Lijun is the most famous among the singers trained by Zuo Hongyuan". Under the care of the teachers, Teresa Teng became the only singer in the Chinese music scene who can truly be called a superstar.Teresa Teng, who appeared as a child star since she was a child, has received complete music training. Her songs and singing skills have also influenced many singers.Especially in the Mainland, Teresa Teng's songs can be regarded as the origin of popular music.According to Zuo Hongyuan's description, although the young Teresa Teng did not understand the emotions expressed in the lyrics, her unique voice and singing style, as well as her natural comprehension ability, made every love song she sang deeply moving. In 1995, Teresa Teng, who was only 40 years old, passed away unexpectedly in Chiang Mai, Thailand due to a sudden asthma attack, leaving fans with eternal regret. Despite so many creative talents, Taiwanese Mandarin songs did not change much in form in the early 1970s, so there were still no major breakthroughs.Apart from the folk song movement, covers of Western songs have also become one of the mainstreams of popular music.Western songs were loved by intellectuals in the early 1970s, and they were limited to listening to the original songs. It was not until a large number of Western songs were covered, new arrangements, and the use of electronic instruments that Taiwanese pop music began to truly Westernize.Huang Luyi (Huang Yingying) and Zhu Li (Su Rui) were the most famous cover singers of Western songs at that time.They would later become queen-level singers of Mandarin pop music. Huang Yingying benefited from the movie theme song "Cloud River" produced by Liu Jiachang, while Su Rui benefited from Li Shouquan's song "The Same Moonlight" in the early 1980s. On the political front, Mandarin pop songs have been suspended for nearly a decade due to the government’s campaign to purify songs.From 1968 to 1975 alone, as many as five or six hundred songs were banned.Singers of popular songs also face the risk of being banned from singing. For example, in 1969, Yao Surong was detained for singing the banned song "The Heartbroken", and Gao Lingfeng, who is known for his American performance style, went to the "News Bureau" to explain More times than singing opportunities. When the pop song composer Weng Qingxi (pen name Tony) was interviewed by the media, he kept avoiding the question about the image of pop songs with "Let's not talk about these", and his helplessness was palpable.However, in the siege column opened by "China Daily", the singers who spoke did not put forward a strong defense, and some even stood on the side of criticism. The 1970s will become the world of the folk song movement, and it is also due to the environment.Due to the influence of the folk song movement and the requirement for a deeper musical connotation, various types of songs in Mandarin pop music have been well cultivated. The creators gradually became the backbone of the music scene, which made the 1980s to 1990s the most glorious stage of Taiwanese Mandarin pop music. In the 1970s, although Mandarin pop music entered a relatively bleak period due to the influence of the Purification Song Movement and the Folk Song Movement, in fact, there were still many outstanding singers and works in this stage. In 1974, when Yang Xian, Hu Defu and others were preparing for the "Modern Folk Song Creation Concert", the producer and creator Liu Jiachang made the first solo album "Cloud River" for Huang Yingying, who sang Western songs on the US military radio station. , this record made Huang Yingying change from singing Western songs to a Mandarin singer, and became a leader in the Mandarin music scene.Originally, Zhen Ni was the original singer of the song "Cloud River", but no record was released at that time.During the same period, Liu Jiachang left Haishan and signed a contract with Gelin. Liu Jiachang's singers such as Feng Feifei, You Ya, Zhen Ni and Jiang Lei belonged to Haishan Records, so Huang Yingying became Liu Jiachang's first singer in Gelin. . There is also a heavyweight singer in Golin Records, Feng Feifei, the queen of the hat song.When she was in junior high school, the family of Feng Feifei, whose original name was Lin Qiuying, suddenly changed. As the only girl in the family, she had to drop out of school early, and hoped to change the fate of the whole family by participating in a singing competition.After experiencing a failure, the stubborn Feng Feifei won the championship in the second competition.Although he found a job as a resident singer in a restaurant because of this, he has not been taken seriously.A few years later, Feng Feifei was accepted by the public for her participation in the TV series "Swallows Flying", and began to sing on variety shows.The stage name Feng Feifei was taken at that time. However, Feng Feifei's initial popularity was neither because of singing nor acting, but because he hosted a live variety show "I Love Weekend" on "Taiwan TV".Her charisma has made the show the hottest entertainment show.Every time a video is recorded, many of her diehard fans in the south will even pack a tour bus to go north to watch and cheer on the scene.Feng Feifei's reputation at that time also skyrocketed with the success of her several albums "Let him know about love", "No address left", and "Coincidence".Because she likes to wear all kinds of hats, she is known as the queen of hats.Not long after, Kolin's company poached Feng Feifei, and the first album released was "Star Language". The title song of the same name is also the theme song of a movie. Many songs in this album have been sung repeatedly. The creative achievements of the most popular male and female singers and musicians such as Zhuang Nu, Zuo Hongyuan and Liu Jiachang at that time could not be separated from the dissemination of Qiong Yao films, the most important literary film in the 1960s and 1970s.Due to the popularity of Qiong Yao's movies, not only did Zhen Zhen, Brigitte Lin, Lu Xiuling and many other movie superstars become popular, but also singers who sang movie theme songs and interludes became the objects of fans' pursuit.Feng Feifei's "I Am a Cloud" once sold 100,000 copies that year. There are two other superstars I have to mention, one is "Prince Charming" Liu Wenzheng, and the other is "Frog Prince" Gao Lingfeng. In 1975, Liu Wenzheng, known as the "Prince Charming", broke into the music scene with a song "Promise" composed by Liu Jiachang.With his tall and handsome appearance and stage style imitated from Elvis Presley, Liu Wenzheng quickly became the first generation superstar in Taiwan.Liu Wenzheng formed an orchestra when he was in middle school, and later went abroad to study, absorbing a good musical nutrition.There are countless classic works by Liu Wenzheng. In the blurred area between popular music and campus songs, his works such as "Little Rain in March" are still talked about today.Liu Wenzheng once again cooperated with Liu Jiachang to sing "Little Rain on Me", creating the most distinctive image in his personal singing life with the appearance of French movie star Alan Delon (including suits, hats, and white scarves).In Fei Xiang's memory, Liu Wenzheng was in full swing in the music scene at that time, and he was extremely popular. He said to Fei Xiang, who had just debuted: "Do you want to be popular? I will send you a word - if you want to become a red star, you must show off your own advantages." , to hide the shortcomings." This seemingly ordinary sentence had a great influence on Fei Xiang. "It took me a while to understand the meaning of this classic sentence." Currently Liu Wenzheng is mainly engaged in business, investing in real estate, stocks, and financial management.Over the years, Liu Wen has lived alternately in the United States, Singapore and Malaysia, and occasionally flies back to Taipei quietly, but his whereabouts are kept secret.Many performance units wanted to contact this smashing superstar to hold a concert, but Liu Wenzheng never let go. It would be unforgivable for him if he could not appear with the best image and the best voice. At the same time as Liu Wenzheng, another singer with more avant-garde and bold stage performances, Gao Lingfeng, became popular with "Burn, Firebird" and launched his strange song series "Girl's Dimples" and so on.This very controversial "Frog Prince" has substandard Mandarin, bad singing voice, heavy nasal voice, and even less handsome appearance than Liu Wenzheng, but he can rise to the top of the big-name list, relying on the trend-leading stage design and infinite Replaceable personal touches.Different from Liu Wenzheng, Gao Lingfeng's life philosophy is "never leave the stage". He not only still holds concerts and releases records, but also wins a place in the hosting industry.He once said, "Life is so much fun that you can't finish writing ten books." Qiong Yao once wrote a novel "Girlfriend" based on his true love story.Gao Lingfeng, who has experienced countless emotional setbacks, still believes in love: "Love is a kind of driving force and a kind of vitality. It's just that the pursuit is different now. What I want to find at this age is a wife who can chat with me in the future, and more attention. It’s for my children.” At such an advanced age, he can still dance hotly in the concert and deliberately reveal his thong underwear. For this reason, I respect him for never leaving the stage.