Chyna - Within You'll Remain

It's quite often for a Cantopop to put in some English words, e.g.:

...停住這風 Oh Baby, 長夜抱擁 Oh Darling...
...Smile again, 這惡夢忘了吧...

It's not often for a Gwai lo's song to have Chinese words inside. During the most diverse and productive years of Hong Kong music in the early to middle 80s, the band Chyna's "Within You'll Remain" (or Within You Remain) has this Chinese words "我愛你" (I love you). It also contains a guitar solo of short and special traditional Chinese-style tune . I still can't find a similar mix that can achieve this level of musical beauty. There is a lot of (electric) guitar solo in Cantopop but they sounds like Japanese, European, American but not Chinese. The song never achieves a mainstream status though I guess a lot of Hongkonger over 30 can still remember it. 徐小鳳 also covers this song with a new lyrics in 一臉紅霞. I find out three other covered versions (Tokyo Square, tinh hue & Lynda Trang Dai) from the net. They all seems like are from Vietnamese community. I don't know if they are from the local Vietnamese community but locals cover a lot of Cantopop with Vietnamese lyrics. And, they like to play it LOUD. So, I can still hear a lot of old tune whenever I visit there.


Within You'll Remain
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Facing the world with an empty heart
I could disappear into the dark

But you were the one
Who could make my dreams come true
My dear
it's you

When you're not around
my heart stood still
Within you'll remain
And always will

Illusions say
there is another man
Who would interfere
into my plans

我愛你 (I love you)
我愛你 (I need you)
More than I ever did anyone
I never felt like this before

我愛你 (I want you)
我愛你 (I need you)
We could be two lovers from the past
And the future is our chance

徐小鳳 《金光燦爛徐小鳳》

徐小鳳地位超群，在當年譚詠麟等一線歌星以在紅館開二十塲演唱會為地位時，她一口氣開了三十三塲演唱會。當時她從沒有在各大頒獎禮得獎，我想她不在乎這些 講數頒獎禮。香港有一個很怪的現像，一個歌星的紅與黑，不是在他的唱片銷量多少，而是在他的各大小報見報量。所以，得了大獎就可以有很多見報，多見報就可 以增加講數本錢本拿大奬。等而下之的，就有很多所謂的紙上明星。徐小鳳的見報量少，最多只是開演唱會之前來宣傳一下，但她的演唱會郤有很多的銷量，這就是 所謂實力吧！

這《金光燦爛徐小鳳》３ＣＤ中，收有小鳳多年的歌曲，由《包青天》到《風的季節》，《漫漫前路》等。但不知道為甚麼沒有比較後期的《隨想曲》和《順流逆流》，是這３ＣＤ中的一遺憾。