Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts

2008/12/02

Twinkle twinkle little star


a song I loved recently,
The version I loved was not found in youtube.

Twinkle twinkle little star
How I wonder what you are?
Looking at your magic light
Watching over us tonight

Before my dreams take me away
I kneel beside my bed and pray
For all the children in the dark
Till tomorrow, twinkle little star...

Promise me you'll twinkle little star....

’Cos everybody needs a little star.

2008/08/12

Daisy Bell

Sharing you with my finding today.

Scrolling down to the end of the file "style.css" in wordpress source code, I find this section:

/* "Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do. I'm half crazy all for the love of you.
It won't be a stylish marriage, I can't afford a carriage.
But you'll look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle built for two." */


Oh yah, how moving it is, I scrolled up to check who is the author of this file and found a name "Michael Heilemann". I thought "daisy" is the one Michael loved, and want to check what's the final answer of daisy is. hah, I'm always fans of this kind of stuff. So I put these words in google, then google said:
Oh, it's just a song.

A little disappointed, however, perhaps Michael is singing this song to his girl:)

You can find a bit more of this song in wikipedia, like history, composer, etc.
A lovely song.

Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two)

There is a flower within my heart
Daisy, Daisy
Planted one day by a glancing dart
Planted by Daisy Bell

Whether she loves me or loves me not
Sometimes it's hard to tell
But there are those that would share the lot
Of beautiful Daisy Bell

Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do
I'm half crazy all for the love of you
It won't be a stylish marriage
I can't afford a carriage
But you'll look sweet upon the seat
Of a bicycle built for two

We will go 'tandem' as man and wife
Daisy, Daisy
Wheeling away down the road of life
I and my Daisy Bell

When the nights dark, we can both despise
Policemen and lamps as well
There are bright lights in the dazzling eyes
Of beautiful Daisy Bell

I will stand by you in "wheel" or woe
Daisy, Daisy
You'll be the bell(e) which I'll ring you know
Sweet little Daisy Bell

You'll take the lead in each trip we take
Then if I don't do well
I will permit you to use the brake
My beautiful Daisy Bell.

2008/06/03

It won’t be easy

A song I liked very much.


It won’t be easy
You will think it strange
When I try to explain
How I feel that I still need your love after all that I have done
You believe
All you will see is a girl you once knew
Although she was dressed up to the night
At sixes and sevens with you
I had to let it happen
I had to change
Couldnt stay all my life down at heel
Looking out of the window
Staying out of the sun
So I chose freedom
Running around trying everything new
But nothing impressed me at all
I never expected it to
Dont cry for me Argentina
The truth is I never left you
All through my wild days
My mad existence I cannt kept my promise
Dont keep your distance and as for fortune
And as for fame I never invited them in
Though it seemed to the world
They were all i desired
They are illusions
They are not the solutions
They promised to be
The answer was here all the time
I love you and hope you love me
Dont cry for me Argentina
Have I said too much
There was nothing more I can think of to say to you
But all you have to do is look at me to know that every word is true

2008/05/10

Two beautiful songs for mother

Jay Chou
Follow your mother
http://youtube.com/watch?v=H9PFQSVZdzM


Beyond
Truely love you
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vKl671jhSUI

I don't know how to put video here.

2007/11/30

Mozart's workload

The Holland writer Hendrik Willem van Loon say in his book The story the art that he thought Mozart's death is caused by his working hard.
His workload is so heavy, that is equivalent to
make dozens of people work hard to death in five or six years
Mozart is really a genius. He can create in such a hurry time, it's in such a hurry that he said some notes dropped down off the table but the products are still so great.

Hendrik Willem van Loon (1882-1944)'s book list:
  1. The Fall of the Dutch Republic, 1913,
  2. The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom, 1915.
  3. The Short History of Discovery, 1917,
  4. Ancient Man, 1920
  5. The Story of Mankind, 1921, ( Awarded by The annual Newbery Medal in 1922, which had been created by Unitarian bookseller and editor Frederic Melcher to honor outstanding American children's books.)

2007/11/25

Games played in Chinese childhood - fold and fly the paper plane

A paper plane, paper aeroplane, or paper airplane (Chinese:纸飞机/紙飛機;Deutsch:Papierflieger;Japanese:kamihikōki/紙飛行機) is popular worldwide, since it is one of the easiest types of origami for a novice to master.


How far or how long can you make it fly? I can only make it fly from one side of the room to another side.

The world record for a paper-plane flight is held by Ken Blackburn, a US aerospace engineer. Visit his site which share what he knows about paper airplanes, it looks very engineering, many formulas there, some curve figures also comes up to describe the Pressure distribution. Blackburn's first entry into the Guinness Book of Records was in 1983(16.89 seconds), resetting it in 1987 (17.2 sec), 1994 (18.8 sec) lost the record in 1996 and set the current record of 27.6 seconds on 10/8/98 in the Georgia Dome. Amazing. Blackburn combined his job and life, professionality and hobbie so well.

There're many sites guiding how to fold. See a list of Paper airplane video. Also There's a book available on Amazon, Norman Schmidt’s book, Best Ever Paper Airplanes. There's guide to folds in life and health guardian, with 12 different folding types. Some universites also set the paperplane folding and flying as a undergraduate program of engineering, see Building and flying the Stealth in Norwich university, with the steps very detail and easy to follow (from Norman Schmidt’s book).

Finally, I want to introduce a song "Paper plane" by my favorite star Sandy Lam. View a beautiful mv in youtube.

Paper Plane - Sandy Lam
Composer: Sandy Lam, Eric Ng
Lyricist: Xiaohan
Arrangement: Eric Ng

The prince rided on the white horse
The moon hidden
And the kitty often chased its tail
so stupid
Memories in childhood are so invaluable
Children plays
Two foots is full of sands
The laughter recall me the summer holiday in Childhood
The boy who teach me how to make the paper plane
What's going on with him
the way to make the paper plane
laying in the memories along with our growth
fly, fly, paper plane
not dificult to be happy

#Not matter how will it change in the future
we keep the thinking of
the fairtale which belongs to us#
the way to make the paper plane
happiness will never be forgotten
fly, fly, paper plane,
throw (捨てる) the trouble away, it will be released by itself.
Repeat #

纸飞机 - 林忆莲
作词:小寒
作曲:林忆莲 黄韵仁
编曲:黄韵仁

王子骑白马
月亮不见了
还有猫咪总是追着尾巴
有多傻
小时候的记忆好无价
孩子们玩耍
双脚全是沙
笑声让我想起童年暑假 那个他
教我折飞机的他好吗
纸飞机的折法
藏在回忆陪我们长大
纸飞机快飞吧
快乐方法并不复杂

不管未来怎样多变化
#保留着牵挂
属于我们的童话#
纸飞机的折法
快乐是永不忘的呀
纸飞机快飞吧
抛开烦恼自有解答
重复#


I'm not good at translating Lyricist. just to help understanding it.

emm, quote a long paragraph of Who is Sandy Lam? I'm a fan of her all the time.


In the Chinese pop music scene in Asia, especially to those who used to listening to radio from mid-80s and on in Hong Kong, SANDY LAM is a name equivalent to transformation, perfection, hard working, feminine, and talent.

Her career began as a part-time DJ at Commercial Radio Hong Kong in 1982, in which she got an unique nick name 611 (6+1+1=8, in Cantonese ‘8′ means being talkative and always questioning about gossips and other topics). Sandy joined SONY in 1983 and her debut in her Chinese name Lam Yik Lin was released in 1984. She rapidly became the most popular up-and-raising star. Yik Lin, her third album released in 1987, reached double platinum and that when her music career truly kicked off.

With heavy influences from Western music, Sandy’s music style started from cheesy Japanese teen pop to Light Jazz; and from there to R&B, Soul, or even Fusion. In fact, she is considered the only Hong Kong female singer with the best ad-libs. She has 27 full studio albums in Cantonese, Mandarin, English and Japanese, and adding other EPs, live recordings, compilations and co-operations, there is more than 80 or more on the list.

Unlike many other singers in Hong Kong, audience recognizes Sandy as a true musician/performer, rather then an entertainer. You don’t find shocking make-up or extreme outfits from her; it is her pure voice which captured everyone’s heart. She rather spends her time work producing an album instead of attending meaningless shows. Her fans admire her as who she is and the willingness to improve herself vocally, and such improvement is well-known in the industry like a miracle. In recent years, she is transforming herself, not only a singer, but singer songwriter. To put it in a simple way, Sandy is serious about music, it is her life.

2005 marks the 20th Anniversary of her music career. Being able to survive this long in Hong Kong entertainment scene is not an easy task, because of the high competition and people are being so forgetful. Looking back, it shouldn’t be a surprise after all, Sandy is the very first singer to blend in Jazz & R&B elements into Chinese music; she is one of the pioneers who marches into the Japanese music scene and the first singer to have two Chinese songs entering the Japan J-Wave Tokio Hot 100 music chart.

Moreover, she was the most successful Hong Kong singer to make it big in Taiwan by her first Mandarin release selling a record of 600,000 copies; she also participated in Asia’s first 47 days sold out Chinese musical Snow Wolf Lake; she was hand picked by Andrew Lloyd Webber to perform in The Music Of Andrew Lloyd Webber with Elaine Paige in Shanghai in 2001, and she was also picked to sing the Chinese version of Les Miserables’s theme song On My Own. A new kind of flower in Singapore is named after her name called Dendrobium Sandy.



Related posting:
Games played in Chinese childhood - rolling the iron hoop
Games played in Chinese childhood - Blowing Soap Bubble
Games played in Chinese childhood - Playing with mud

Games played in Chinese childhood - Playing with mud

I'm not an artist when I was very little, so all I can remember about mud game is that, kneading it, when it became soft and uneasy to broken, made it like a bowl, then threw it upside down to the ground, there's a sound it will gave out, oh my, I really can't remember what kind of sound now, too simple? Ah, sometimes it's even diffult to make out the sound.

Well, One of my friend is an artist then, she can create dolls from the mud, and painted with oil color, then move it to the oven to make it hard, then brushed with the varnish, so finally the mud became the art product. Games also has it's background.

In this picture, little guys are making tank and pistols, and emulating military scene from the movie, there're a lot of war movies in old that time. Nowadays little boys will not able to create such model then.


And I found there're several songs about mud playing, one of them is a very fresh one, released in July 2007, in Mandarin. Try to translate it here:
Song: Little (Xiao Xiao)
Singer: Joey Yung
Lyricist: Fang Wenshan
Composer: Jay Chow
Arrangement: Michael Lin

#The memory is like, a people who talking stories (讲谈を语る)
using voice full of local accent
jump over the puddle, bypass the village
waiting for the luck meeting again

You pinch a castle by mud
say you'll marry me to your home in the future
How many times I turn around, passing by your door, youth wasted
#

little sware, not stable yet
little tears, is keeping in eyes
Little lips, is telling department

*A person lived in my heart from then on
Little us
That year you carring the little wooden stool
To watch the show, I follow you

I'm looking for the one in the story,
you're the part could not be absent
You took a snap under the tree
I waited there softheaded
*

Repeat #

little touching, rain running
little awkward, love dearly
little us, don't know how to kiss yet

Repeat *

A person lived in my heart from then on
Little us
Like emulating the drama, talk love and recite the scenario
You can't pronouce correctly because of agomphosis

I'm looking for the one in the story,
You're the part could not be absent
The little friends pull the little hands
Keeping the little for ever
歌曲: 小小
歌手:容祖儿
作词:方文山
作曲:周杰伦
编曲:林迈可

#回忆像个说书的人
用充满乡音的口吻
跳过水坑绕过小村
等相遇的缘分
你用泥巴捏一座城
说将来要娶我进门
转多少身 过几次门 虚掷青春#


小小的誓言还不稳
小小的泪水还在撑
稚嫩的唇在说离分

*我的心里从此住了一个人
曾经模样小小的我们
那年你搬小小的板凳
为戏入迷我也一路跟

我在找那个故事里的人
你是不能缺少的部份
你在树下小小的打盹
小小的我傻傻等*

重复#

小小的感动雨纷纷
小小的别扭惹人疼
小小的人还不会吻

重复*

我的心里从此住了一个人
曾经模样小小的我们
当初学人说爱念剧本
缺牙的你发音却不准

我在找那个故事里的人
你是不能缺少的部份
小小的手牵小小的人
守著小小的永恒

(this table can't align well as preview, last try)

I'm not a fan of this Joey, and because of sound card problem, so I haven't listened this song yet, but I trust Jay chow, he would not produce ugly songs:) Here is the mv in youtube (I don't know how to put it here), mud is replaced with payper plane and sewing in it:) does the director think mud is dirty, not romantic?

Some introduction of this song.
In recent years, Joey Yung has been one of the very few Hong Kong singers to successfully break into the Mandarin market, and it's no wonder considering how hard she works. The singer just returned from dance lessons in the States, and she is already preparing for her upcoming concert with Grasshoppers. Her TVB police drama One the First Beat is also currently airing in Hong Kong. Topping everything off is her new Mandarin album Little, which comes a year after 2006's Jump Up 9492

Title track Little (Track 2) is composed by Jay Chou, with lyrics and arrangement from his regular collaborators Vincent Fang and Michael Lin. Musical sparks fly as the two Chinese pop heavyweights work together for the first time, and the song quietly enchants with its gentle folk-inspired ballad and wistfully romantic lyrics. This 10-track album also features two songs from renowned Mainland producer and composer Zhang Yadong and the Chinese theme (Track 10) for Korean drama Hwang Jin Yi.

This edition comes with a DVD containing three music videos.


There's more about this song at Joey Yung 容祖儿 - “Little” 小小

2007/11/10

Classical music or pop song

Recently I move my pop song CDs to the store box and only leave the Classical music CDs on the shelf.
Some of them are all Piano, I find this can help one raise peace and easily focus on the things working on.
Old songs can bring people to memories easily, there's a very famous show called "Same song" (同一首歌), started by CCTV on Jan.27, 2000, played all over the country and also been to USA, Korea, Japan, Canadal.... Many music stars from China mainland, HongKong, TaiWan, and other areas will play the pop songs in the perfomance. Most audiences became very excited when they heard the old songs, some of them are 70s ladies and gentlemen, emigrant many years ago.
Friends or family can sing the song together, so the song is easy to be with the old time; while listen to Classical music, people are usually silent, so that's not easy to keep in touch with old friends or time, it's not historically.

2007/07/22

WuYinLiangPin(No Stamp) - Band



This band has two boy members, one is Guangliang, another one is PinGuan. The band name come from the memeber's name.

Both of them can compose and produce, and their style is similar, so at the end they're disbanded.

From 1995 to 1999, they contribute about 80 songs. Most of them are soft, gentle, healthy.

I dont know how to put music on the blog, can't share their voice here.

2007/07/07

Savage Garden - band

Savage Garden have tender voice, to some extent, their style are like a Band from Taiwan, China, WUYINLIANGPIN, also two boys.

Following are some words I liked from their song, yes I know there are always something not easy in life, but you can go over.
The rhythm is of my favorite kind, slowly, peace, oh, actually I did not feel sadness in it, I even remembered its name is another one, a encouraging one. I did not know all the lyrics, so didn't realize it's a sad story.

I heard it again in the Musician TV program, and saw both of them, the perfomance are hot, not peace and silent as I felt from the cover of their album.


Another ditch in the road.
You keep moving.
Another stop sign.
You keep moving on.
And the years go by so fast.


I miss someone when reading writing them again. The years go by so fast.



-----------~-----------~-----------~-----------~-----------~-----------~
Two Beds And A Coffee Machine

And she takes another step.
Slowly she opens the door.
Check that he is sleeping.
Pick up all the broken glass
and furniture on the floor.
Been up half the night screaming now.
It's time to get away.
Pack up the kids in the car.
Another bruise to try and hide.
Another alibi to write.

Another ditch in the road.
You keep moving.
Another stop sign.
You keep moving on.
And the years go by so fast.

Wonder how lever made it through.

And there are children to think of.
Baby's asleep in the backseat.
Wonder how they'll ever make it through this living nightmare.
But the mind is an amazing thing.
Full of candy dreams and neew toys and another cheap hotel.
Two beds and a coffee machine.
But there are groceries to buy.
And she knows she'll have to go home.

Another ditch in the road.
You keep moving.
Another stop sign.
You keep moving on.
And the years go by so fast.
Wonder how I ever made it through.

Another bruise to try and hide.
Another alibi to write.
Another lonely highway in the black of night.
But there's hope in the darkness.
You know you're going to make it.

Another ditch in the road.
Keep moving.
Another step sign.
You keep moving on.
And the years go by so fast.
Silent fortress built to last.
Wonder how I ever made it.

un...............

2007/06/24

Beyond - band 0624


Beyond is a sunshine band from Hongkong, four boy member born in 1960s.

It's a pity that one of the member huangjiaqiang who was the soul of the band passed away by a mistake in the performance in 1993. Beyond continue rocking after that.

I don't know the band well, but I love all of their songs I heard, "earth", "mother","true love","wide sea and broaden sky", ... all of the lyrics are very healthy, while a lot of songs just focus on the love between two guys, their songs sing the love and care to the enviorment, the nature, the human beings, and the world. Their songs can help one raise his head while he is down, no time for sorrow, dear, go on.

2007/06/09

Chyna - Band 0609

Today I find it's much faster to write in Chinese than in English, so I prefer blogging in another blog now.

To keep blogging here, I try to find some topics to write regulary, .

One topic gotten now is my favorite song and band. I'll talk about it every other week.

So today, Chyna comes.

Joy FM is a program of China international radio. It has a section to introduce some songs with it's lyric. The first time I heard Chyna's song was about 7 years ago, I recorded it in the tape, and listened to it many times later, this song remained in my tape while a lot of other records erased. Actually the program introduced it again one or two years ago, so this is also favorite song of the DJ.

yes, it's really a nice song. There's Chinese words "I love you" repeated several times in it, the singer's accent sound not native Chinese, so I thought it's foreign band. without knowing the song's name, so though I searched it several times, have no result.

Early this year, I asked this question in a powerful board, and got the name of this song is "Within you'll remain". Further, I got the name of the band is Chyna.

Chyna is a hongkong band, including Donald Ashley,Firman So,Pal Sinn,Peter Wong, Jim Knettle,Stephen Hogg,Richard Yuen,Sarah in different time.
Three of them, Firman So,Pal Sinn,Peter Wong combind another band later, named as "Blue Jeans".
Later, Donald Ashley re-combined the Chyna in 1992,and publish a disk "Answer" all in Chinese . All of them keep the dream of the music and got together time after time.


'Within You'll Remain' comes from Chyna first disk "There's Rock & Roll In China" in 1983, which is all in English, a well sold one. It's said one day Donald Ashley met a guy dressed a T-shirt, on the back of it, there's a line "There's no Rock & Roll In China", so he got the idea to publish this disk to against the saying.

'Within You'll Remain' plays guitar, the Chinese zither with 25 strings, Mandolin together, all the lyric was written by Donald Ashley,melody composed by Donald Ashley and Peter Wong.
There're at least two other band ever re-played this song later, one is from Japanese, another from Singapore.