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Post by siuyiu on Feb 2, 2019 4:37:37 GMT
Roman Tam 羅文
actual name: Tam Pak-sin 譚百先
born: 12 February 1945
birthplace: Baise, Guangxi
died: 18 October 2002
Family moved to Guangzhou in 1947 and he later emigrated to Hong Kong in 1962.
reference: wikipedia
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Post by siuyiu on Feb 2, 2019 4:38:43 GMT
most well-known/popular wuxia songs:
3 themes of TVB's Legend of the Condor Heroes 1983
小李飛刀 themesong of TVB's The Romantic Swordsman 1978
絕代雙驕 themesong of TVB's The Legendary Twins 1979
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Post by siuyiu on Feb 2, 2019 4:41:48 GMT
other well-known, non-wuxia songs:
Beneath Lion Mountain 獅子山下
家變 themesong of TVB's A House is Not a Home 1977
幾許風雨
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Post by reinafu on Dec 1, 2019 18:54:28 GMT
I said once in this forum that I was more interested in Adam Cheng's songs than in Roman Tam's songs.
Since then, I listened to more Roman's songs, I bought some cds of his, I just watched his 1996 concert on youtube and I found a clip in which he sings with Lydia Shum (I didn't know that this latter had a so beautiful voice and sang so well too !) and I revised my opinion.
That's true that a while ago, I couldn't bear to hear him in some of this songs (not all) but now, I'm used to it and I must admit that he was also a really good singer. At the end of the 1996 show, he sings a song in Mandarin about love (from what I recognized in the characters) and it's a so moving song. He also sang two other Mandarin songs and he cried, which was also so moving.
He is now among my favorite Chinese singers !
Here is the link to his 1996 concert :
He sings some series theme in it. As i was accupied to do some things while listening, I surely have missed some dances and songs, and I'll have to revisit this concert for sure !
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Post by siuyiu on Dec 1, 2019 19:42:52 GMT
reinafu i'm glad you've come to appreciate his singing! it's not to everyone's taste because a lot of people find his voice too effeminate. but there's no contest if you talk about pure technique. he trained in opera (either peking or canto, i forget), so there's hardly any song that can really stump him. his voice deepened as he got older, so you'll probably prefer his later works--he had an album where he re-interpreted some of his most well-known songs; i'll see if they are available on YT and link. he and lydia shum formed a singing duet very early on in their career, and they'd been very good friends since then.
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Post by siuyiu on Dec 1, 2019 20:09:06 GMT
明日天涯 tomorrow's horizon (live)
不了情 unfinished love (live)
幾許風雨 many storms
and an amazing live version
前程錦繡 bright future
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Post by siuyiu on Dec 1, 2019 20:33:01 GMT
獅子山下 beneath lion rock
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Post by reinafu on Dec 2, 2019 9:46:59 GMT
reinafu i'm glad you've come to appreciate his singing! it's not to everyone's taste because a lot of people find his voice too effeminate. but there's no contest if you talk about pure technique. he trained in opera (either peking or canto, i forget), so there's hardly any song that can really stump him. his voice deepened as he got older, so you'll probably prefer his later works--he had an album where he re-interpreted some of his most well-known songs; i'll see if they are available on YT and link. he and lydia shum formed a singing duet very early on in their career, and they'd been very good friends since then. In one of the clips I saw him in with Lydia Shum in 1996, they sing a Mandarin song and when it's finished, he cries so much that Lydia has to console him several times.
I wonder if he was a happy man, because he was so touched by some songs (or anything else, I don't know) that he often cried...
Actually, it's not because his voice was effminate that I disliked some of his songs, but because of the way some words were pronounced, but I realized that it was the Cantonese pronunciation and I'm now used to it. And what is an effeminate voice for some people ? We had here a giant star called Luis Mariano who could sing opera as well as popular songs and whose voice's " length " went from very deep to very high and he had numerous fans even if he sang with a high voice that looked like a woman's voice...
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Post by reinafu on Dec 2, 2019 9:53:43 GMT
明日天涯 tomorrow's horizon (live) 不了情 unfinished love (live) 幾許風雨 many storms and an amazing live version 前程錦繡 bright future I LOVE this song (Tomorow's horizons) and if I'm not mistaken, it's the song he sings at the end of the clip I posted, with only a piano and his voice.
The more I listen to it, the more it seems to me that I already heard it sung by someone else, maybe a woman, but I'm not sure.
Could it be possible to get the Chinese characters and the pinyin transcription for this song, please ?
Thank you very much for the clips. I already knew the songs Unfinished love (it seems that the meaning is not the same as how it has been translated for the movie Love without end. For me, an unfinished love isn't the same as a love without end, but maybe it's my mathematical mind that makes me think this way...  ), and for Beneath the Lion Rock, sung by Adam Cheng.
And I prefer the live version with only the violin of the song Many storms.
I think that I must track down the Mandarin songs cd !!
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Post by Admin on Dec 3, 2019 3:55:51 GMT
Could it be possible to get the Chinese characters and the pinyin transcription for this song, please ? [/div][/quote] 仍然未好好跟你坦白 回头望尾班车一早到达 仍然没抚摸你的资格 再见你但愿会有对白 仍然未侧起耳朵听你流汗 仍然未爱但力气已经花光 谁会借用余下的一半睡床 谁都将会越过越忙 明天我便会 明天你或会 谁将会令谁的心灰 明天有没有 总有后悔 不一定还有约会 现在这对手 不一定配 接住未来的烟灰 再会 但愿会 然后便会 仍然未信永别比拥抱容易 仍然未快活难过已经开始 时间有限行乐总不够及时 而偏偏吃药要定时 最后 望着漫天的浮云 留给了路人 望着你的好感 留给了坏人 让未开的心 留给了别人 réngrán wèi hǎohǎo gēn nǐ tǎnbái huítóu wàng wěi bānchē yī zǎo dàodá réngrán méi fǔmō nǐ de zīgé zàijiàn nǐ dànyuàn huì yǒu duì bái réngrán wèi cè qǐ ěrduo tīng nǐ liú hàn réngrán wèi ài dàn lìqi yǐjīng huā guāng shuí huì jiè yòng yú xià de yībàn shuì chuáng shuí dōu jiānghuì yuèguò yuè máng míngtiān wǒ biàn huì míngtiān nǐ huò huì shuí jiānghuì lìng shuí de xīn huī míngtiān yǒu méiyǒu zǒng yǒu hòuhuǐ bùyīdìng háiyǒu yuēhuì xiànzài zhè duìshǒu bùyīdìng pèi jiē zhù wèilái de yānhuī zàihuī dànyuàn huì ránhòu biàn huì réngrán wèi xìn yǒng bié bǐ yōngbào róngyì réngrán wèi kuàihuo nánguò yǐjīng kāishǐ shíjiān yǒuxiàn xíng lè zǒng bùgòu jíshí ér piānpiān chī yào yào dìng shí zuìhòu wàng zháo màn tiān de fú yún liú gěi le lùrén wàng zháo nǐ de hǎogǎn liú gěi le huài rén ràng wèi kāi de xīn liú gěi le biérén reinafu : hope that helps. |
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Post by reinafu on Dec 3, 2019 16:24:41 GMT
I forgot to mention that I also know the song bright future, sung by Adam Cheng.
Thank you very much for these lyrics, Admin. Are these the ones for this particular song : 明日天涯 tomorrow's horizon ?
If so, I don't recognize any words that I recognized when listening to the song. At a moment, he sings (sorry, I can't put the accents) :
Ai Ren Bu Yao Yuan Wo Ai Ren Bu Yao Hen Wo
but I don't see this in your pinyin transcription and this song doesn't seem as long as the one you gave me the lyrics.
Sorry, I don't want to seem ungrateful, I'm very happy with the lyrics, but I'd like to know for which songs they are (hence, I'll be able to sing it with the right lyrics !  ) and if they aren't for the song I mentioned, could you (or someone else in the forum) give me also the lyrics and pinyin for this particular song, please ?
Thanks a lot in advance !
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Post by siuyiu on Dec 4, 2019 1:20:12 GMT
i think there may be another song of the same name. these are the lyrics for the song i linked, which roman tam did a version of. reinafu , i believe the original singer was indeed a woman, though there have been many singers who've done their version. the pinyin is too big an ask of me--maybe someone else can provide that. 作詞：伊達 作曲：顧嘉輝 靜靜聽著，愛人， 我為妳唱一首愛歌。 當你明晨醒過來， 再也尋不到我的踪影， 你會知道， 我己離你遠去。 愛人，不要怨我， 愛人，不要恨我。 我原想與你消磨一生， 無奈生命如此短促。 當我閉上眼睛， 笑聲永遠留在耳邊。 我雖遠離， 愛情永遠留在心中。 愛人，不要悲傷， 愛人，不要絕望， 牢記我倆真摯的愛情， 你我會在天涯相逢。 愛人，不要怨我， 愛人，不要恨我。 我原想與你消磨一生， 無奈生命如此短促。 as for unfinished love, it's the best i could come up with in a hurry. the title shouldn't be "love without end" because that connotes something positive, something eternal. the song itself has a melancholy, so i felt "unfinished" a better interpretation of the title. here are those lyrics: 作詞：陶秦 作曲：莫然 忘不了忘不了 忘不了你的錯忘不了你的好 忘不了雨中的散步也忘不了那風裡的擁抱 忘不了忘不了 忘不了你的淚忘不了你的笑 忘不了葉落的惆悵也忘不了那花開的煩惱 ＊寂寞的長巷而今斜月清照 冷落的鞦韆而今迎風輕搖 它重複你的叮嚀一聲聲忘了忘了 它低訴我的衷曲一聲聲難了難了 忘不了忘不了 忘不了春已盡忘不了花已老 忘不了離別的滋味也忘不了那相思的苦惱 |
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Post by siuyiu on Dec 4, 2019 1:22:29 GMT
reinafu i'm glad you've come to appreciate his singing! it's not to everyone's taste because a lot of people find his voice too effeminate. but there's no contest if you talk about pure technique. he trained in opera (either peking or canto, i forget), so there's hardly any song that can really stump him. his voice deepened as he got older, so you'll probably prefer his later works--he had an album where he re-interpreted some of his most well-known songs; i'll see if they are available on YT and link. he and lydia shum formed a singing duet very early on in their career, and they'd been very good friends since then. In one of the clips I saw him in with Lydia Shum in 1996, they sing a Mandarin song and when it's finished, he cries so much that Lydia has to console him several times.
I wonder if he was a happy man, because he was so touched by some songs (or anything else, I don't know) that he often cried...
Actually, it's not because his voice was effminate that I disliked some of his songs, but because of the way some words were pronounced, but I realized that it was the Cantonese pronunciation and I'm now used to it. And what is an effeminate voice for some people ? We had here a giant star called Luis Mariano who could sing opera as well as popular songs and whose voice's " length " went from very deep to very high and he had numerous fans even if he sang with a high voice that looked like a woman's voice...
i don't know if he was happy. he was definitely passionate about his art. i'm glad you're not bothered by his voice--many are, thinking that a guy's voice should be deeper, stronger, etc. as for the pronunciation, yes, canto is harsher on the ears than mandarin. |
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Post by siuyiu on Dec 4, 2019 1:54:36 GMT
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Post by Admin on Dec 4, 2019 4:04:18 GMT
Thank you very much for these lyrics, Admin. Are these the ones for this particular song : 明日天涯 tomorrow's horizon ? Sorry, I don't want to seem ungrateful, I'm very happy with the lyrics, but I'd like to know for which songs they are (hence, I'll be able to sing it with the right lyrics ! ) and if they aren't for the song I mentioned, could you (or someone else in the forum) give me also the lyrics and pinyin for this particular song, please ? Thanks a lot in advance !
Yes， that is the song 明日天涯 tomorrow's horizon, but apparently there are another song with the same title. I'm sorry, since my VPN is often on and off, therefore I didn't watch the video. Just search the song in Chinese website and copied it. So this is the pinyin of the version you want. Thanks to siuyiu靜jìng靜jìng聽tīng著zháo，愛人ài ren， 我wǒ為wèi妳nǐ 唱chàng一yī首shǒu愛ài歌gē。 當dāng你nǐ明míng晨chén醒xǐng過來guò lái， 再zài也yě尋xún不bù到dào我的wǒ de踪zōng影yǐng， 你nǐ會huì知道zhī dao， 我wǒ己jǐ離lí你nǐ遠yuǎn去qù。 愛人ài ren，不要bù yào怨yuàn我wǒ， 愛人ài ren，不要bù yào恨hèn我wǒ。 我wǒ原yuán想xiǎng與yǔ你nǐ消xiāo磨mó一生yì shēng， 無奈wú nài生命shēng mìng如此rú cǐ短促duǎn cù。 當dāng我wǒ閉bì上shàng眼睛yǎn jīng， 笑聲xiào shēng永遠yǒng yuǎn留liú在zài耳ěr邊biān。 我wǒ雖suī遠離yuǎn lí， 愛情ài qíng永遠yǒng yuǎn留liú在zài心中xīn zhōng。 愛人ài ren，不要bù yào悲傷bēi shāng， 愛人ài ren，不要bù yào絕望jué wàng， 牢記láo jì我wǒ倆liǎ真摯zhēn zhì的de愛情ài qíng， 你nǐ我wǒ會huì在zài天涯tiān yá相xiāng逢féng。 愛人ài ren，不要bù yào怨yuàn我wǒ， 愛人ài ren，不要bù yào恨hèn我wǒ。 我wǒ原yuán想xiǎng與yǔ你nǐ消xiāo磨mó一生yì shēng， 無奈wú nài生命shēng mìng如此rú cǐ短促duǎn cù。 |
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), and for Beneath the Lion Rock, sung by Adam Cheng.
) and if they aren't for the song I mentioned, could you (or someone else in the forum) give me also the lyrics and pinyin for this particular song, please ?
