Muzikland

This is one of the better compilations on the HK pop songs in the 60s. But again it falls on the safe familiar mode: Too many big hits. Any oldies lover would probably have Here's a heart, a little bit of soap, I can't grow peaches on a cherry trees on many many compilations over the years. What we need are the extensive compilations on individual artists. I'm sure Joe Jr, Teddy Robin, Anders Nelsson and Fabulous Echoes would have enough music to fill a 2-CD set each. Rare treasures like 6 days in May, Don't, Sands of time (Teddy Robin and Playboys) I only came to say goodbye, evergreen tree (Joe Jr), I still love you (First version) who says a man shouldn't cry (by Anders Nelsson's old group Kontinentals), Marlagena, Quit messing around (Fabulous Echoes),just to name a few... Will we ever get these gems on cd in our life time? The record company wants commercial products are understandable, but to repeat these familiar big hits over and over again is not that commercial. Let's face it, the younger generation is not going to buy the oldies anyway (or extremely low percentage). The oldies lovers can only collect the same hits for so many times before they get fed up.
How about some serious double cds on individual artists? I'm sure there are tens of thousands oldies fans out there would welcome it with open arms (and wallets!). Thank you for listening.

Dear Steve Yiu,

I feel the same with you. But now UMG had individually issued the Diamond Boxset, that means they are alert what they had abut those 60's treasure. If you listen to the boxset carefully, you will find some of them are really from master tapes, that is not the way the other companies do (tape from vinyl), so they are digging, I’m sure someday they will issue the individual artists cd. I do hope they can reissue the original album, especially my favorite Kong Ling & Fabulous Echoes. Just wait and support.

"加拿大Seagram於1995年收購了MCA﹐復又於1998年成功收購寶麗金﹐便成為此時此刻的環球唱片。"

這收購事件是有後話的，2000年12月5日法國最大的傳媒集團Vivendi，在其股東大會中通過和Seagram及Canal+的合併建議，其後又獲得後兩者招開的股東大會通過，合併為Vivendi Universal Group。所以，現時環球唱片基本上是一間法國集團公司。

http://www.vivendi.com/corp/en/press_2000/20001205

Dear Eddie Ho,

謝謝你的資料啊﹐想不到 Seagram 買了 Polygram 不久就易手了﹐我當年也沒留意﹐而且在 UMG 的 Company History 也沒提及哩。
至於你提供那條連結﹐因未數太多而超越了我版面的寬度﹐所以我略作修改﹐回復我版面的原寬度﹐但對連結沒有影響。
有空多來玩啊。

I share the same view with you. The situation is almost the same with EMI HK. During mid 60s & mid 70s, as you may recall, EMI also released many vinyl played by a number of famous local artists/groups like Anders Nelson & The Ming, The Quests (from Singapore), The Thunders (from Macao), Teresa Carpio, Esther Chan, George Lam, The New Topnotes, Irene Ryder, Gracie Rivera (from Philippines), Tracy Huang (from Singapore), etc. But through these years, I could see only the following remastered CDs from EMI here locally. It looks like that we still have to wait endlessly for these memorable oldies to come out in digital form individually or even "acceptable" compilation series under the mercy of EMI.

- 西洋風2-CD set
http://xs301.xs.to/xs301/06216/SaiYeungFong.jpg.xs.jpg

- Teresa Carpio - Loving You
http://xs301.xs.to/xs301/06216/TeresaCarpioLovingYou.jpg.xs.jpg

- New Topnotes - Let Their Music Play
http://xs301.xs.to/xs301/06216/NewTopnotesLetTheirMusicPlay.jpg.xs.jpg

- Recollecting The Quests. Vol. 2
http://xs301.xs.to/xs301/06216/RecollectingTheQuestsVol2.jpg.xs.jpg

- The Quests Recollecting
http://xs101.xs.to/xs101/06216/TheQuestsRecollecting.jpg.xs.jpg

BTW, may I know whether or not it is possible for me/anyone to post the picture here directly instead of the image url link.

Dear Eddie Ho,

First of all, I think because of the Blog issue, so it may not allow readers to post the pictures in the message column.

For the reissue stuff, I think the first reason is the record company do not have confidence to reissue them, mostly they wrongly didn't agree those oldies still have market, secondly, record company nowadays just sell music as a product, so they just sell what they know, I guess most of the young staff may not know what treasure the company is having. As a result they just sell Alan Tam, Pricilla Chan, Paula Tsui, Jacky Cheung﹑許志安﹑陳慧琳 again again and again。They have greatest hits collecion more than the original album. You know the EMI Mandarin oldies is a freelance project handled by people outside EMI, so do you think they know what they had? What we can do is just wait under they find them. haha.

Buy the way, do you know any information about the Thunders (from Macau)?

"information about the Thunders (from Macau)"

今天晚了.....明晚再談這唯一支曾衝出澳門街的土生葡人樂隊The Thunders吧！

這裏有三條有關的相片url，可先给blog主及各blog友看看。

http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs201&d=06210&f=thunders.jpg

http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs101&d=06210&f=TheThundersDeMacau.jpg

http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs301&d=06210&f=AtPalaceCasino.jpg

Dear Eddie Ho,

期待著你的介紹﹐那是自製CD嗎﹖

"那是自製CD嗎﹖"

當然不是啦，我怎有天份能製成那樣精美的CD版面呀....

約十個月前，我在澳門板樟堂街的葡文書局，店內二樓的葡語歌曲CD貨架上，找到這張CD，售貨的土生葡籍小姐告訴我它是店內唯一的存貨，我不假思索就買下了。

其實，這張CD是一冊The Thunders樂隊的傳記加上其所曾灌錄為黑膠唱片歌曲的CD集，编輯及出版者為澳門土生葡人協會(APIM)。專集共有百多頁，內容十分豐富可觀，由當年各成員的認識及組成經過、在港参賽憑一曲She's In Hong Kong擊敗眾多本地樂隊獲得冠軍而成名、其後轉為職業樂隊在多間夜總會演唱、解散原因等等，都有詳細英葡雙語敍述。並有極富歷史記念性的有關照片、每首歌曲的著作資料及背境、歌詞(兼備結他和詃)、以至剪報等，皆是典型的傳统葡人懐緬往昔的寫作及處理風格。惟最可惜及令我失望的是CD內的全部歌曲都不是原版本，只是利用刻板及沉悶的電子背景音樂譜上歌聲製成，是整套成品的最大敗筆！但這大有可能是與EMI的板權問題而導至的。

http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs201&d=06221&f=TheThunderspic3.jpg

http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs101&d=06221&f=TheThundersDeMacauBackCover.jpg

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http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs101&d=06221&f=Macau.jpg

http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs101&d=06221&f=TheThunderspicP109a.jpg

http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs101&d=06221&f=TheThunderspicP1067a.jpg

http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs101&d=06221&f=TheThunderspicP1145a.jpg

http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs101&d=06221&f=TheThunderspic2a.jpg

http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs101&d=06221&f=TheThunderspicP15a.jpg

如Blog主不介意的話，我遲點可以把該集的內容全數轉載貼上及附上有關相片的連结。

Dear Eddie Ho﹐

你這本書令我非常羨慕哩﹐The Thundners 現在還有玩嗎﹖

Dear Muzikland,

I have bought this "鑽石名曲選 - The History Of Diamond Records" last week. I was excited to listen songs such as "South Pacific twist", "Petty blues eyes", "Stranger to love" and "Things go better with you". They were all my wanted oldies that I was looking for years. By the way, I'm interested in the "news" of the Macau's Band "The Thunders" which was mentioned by Mr. Eddie Ho. Who can forget the glory day of our local pop scene in 60's ?

Dear Pepperonie,

I like Diamond Records, it was such a classic. The reason could be they had my favorite Kong Ling & Fabulous Echoes. I do hope Universal will issue the original album one by one in the near future.

Dear Muzikland,

The Diamond record co. was the major record co. in HK during 60's. It monopolised the entire pop singers/groups under its label in the glory day of local music scene. "鑽石名曲選 - The History Of Diamond Records" was only shown part of their treasure. Other greatest hits just to name a few : Teddy Robin & the playboys's "I dream of you (last night)" and "Sands of time", Mod East's "No one can love you" and "except you", Zoundcrackers's "I only came to say goodbye" , Joe Junior & the side effects 's "That's the way love is" and "Girl on a bus". Waiting for their follow-up re-issue CDs which certainly will bring back many pleasant memories.

Dear Pepperonie,

You really love the 60's HK local band scence very much. Actually I don't really like Teddy Robin & The Playboys, I always wonder how come Teddy can be famous. It's strange. For Joe Jr & The Side Effects, I love Here's A Heart. Hope the UMG can understand the market and will re-issue the albums in the very near future, then you and me will have blood come from the wallet.

The Thunders 現在還有玩嗎﹖
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他們當然早已拆夥了！

我先把傳記內有關他們成名時期的成員、解散過程及原因、重錄所有曾出版的歌曲為CD等背景資料，轉載如下:

THE THUNDERS

Keyboard : Herculano Airosa (Alou)
Bass : Armando Sales Ritchie
Lead Guitar & Vocal : Rigoberto do Rosário Jr. (Api)
Rhythm Guitar : Domingos Rosa Duque (Lelé)
Drums & Percussion : Manuel Costa

Api 是隊中的靈魂，Thunders 曾收錄過的唱片歌曲及詞，絕大部份都是他的個人創作。樂隊在成名前後亦曾轉換了不少成員，其他的成員名字有: César Placé, Sonny Gomez, Mário Pistaquini, Daniel Ferreira, Armando Lopes, Avelino Cortez Jr., Gabriel Yuen, Butch Ackber, Esther Andres (女)。

樂隊解散背景:

The end of the contract with Mocambo (Note) also marked the end of the Thunders, leaving Herculano, Rigoberto and Sonny Gomes as the stubborn last remainders of the original line up. The other musicians that joined the band, Filipinos and Chinese, came as they went. Their break up became public. The newspapers announced the band's end, and the public took a while to believe but the facts where true. Fate has it that April 30th, 1971 saw the last of the Thunders.

As a matter of fact, lately some had been drafted for military service, others were tired of a life of a long nights and nightclubs, conscious of the need to find a more reliable job, get married and start a family. Waking up to real life or coming of age fed the members of the Thunders to pack up one by one and return home or start a life elsewhere. Armando went back to studying and Manuel Costa to his old job at the Post Services (CTT). Herculano quit being a professional musician and took a job at the Brazilian Consulate in Hong Kong but Sonny Gomes was hired for the Moulin Rouge's band. Rigoberto (Api) teamed up with Jimmy Chan (former Quest) in a duet performing at a dancing restaurant, and later formed a trio with Dally Chun (ex-Flipsiders) and Johnny Yip (who was family during the 80's) to play at an English restaurant in Hong Kong, up until the time he migrated to Brazil, as did Alou and Armando Ritchie.

Api was the one who lasted longer in the music business, as he worked with Brazilian bands and orchestras all the way until the end of the 80's. Manuel Costa migrated to Canada, where still lives. But Lelé, Domingos Rosa Duque, chose to remain in Macau.

“There is no longer drive, or room. The type of music playing today at hotel bars and nightclubs is not music for dancing, as it was in those days, and you no longer invite local bands. Macanese don't throw birthday or other parties at home anymore, inviting local bands to play. Times have changed” – remarks Lelé, which in six years went through the Flipsiders, the Black Cats and the Midnight Riders before joining the Thunders.

“Everybody knew everybody. We all got along very well, although we were constantly drifting to the next band because of minor disagreements during rehearsals. But there were no hard feelings. There was no rivalry, and in truth, at that time when all was happening, we didn't realize the lengths of our success”, he says with a hint of nostalgia still finding it a bit hard to believe.

As for the other members who at one time were part of the Thunders during the golden days (some staying longer other less), only Antonio (Sonny) Gomes has departed from this world. César Placé moved to Los Angeles and Daniel Ferreira and Mario Pistaquini live and work in Macau.


把歌曲帶回到新的千禧年 Returning to the sounds at the new millennium :

Recently, thirty years down the road, one of them decided to call the others; “Let's play for old times sake?” It was Alou. Armando enquires his hands where they still remember their place on the bass arm, learned by heart half a life ago. And Api finds it a good idea.

One June 24th, 2001, the Day of Saint John the Baptist and Day of Macau, the three decided to get together for a performance at the Casa de Macau in Sao Paulo. The good reception they got from the audience, led them to repeat the feat.

With the invitation from the organizing committee of the Encontro dos Macaenses to perform in Macau in November 2004, they got in touch with the other two Thunders “old timers”, Manuel Costa and Domingos Rosa Duque, to start rehearsing… “via Internet”. In Macau, surrounded by his sound system, old vinyl records and new CDs, of images and sounds, Lele never got to forget. And he goes back to rehearsing whenever time allows.... just to keep alive the memory of something that binds them to Macau, that left a mark in their lives and in the identity of a whole generation, fortunate enough to be born here.


(Note : Mocambo(金寶夜總會酒樓) was one of the famous and richest nightclubs in Hong Kong in the late 60s and early 70s, owned by a Chinese entreprenur Harry Chua.)

Dear Muzikland,

Teddy Robin and The Playboys was the most popular local band in the 60's. They had hits after hits, released more singles and LPs than the other bands. Teddy had a clear and sweet voice and was an energetic performer on stage where he could move speedily from one side to the other and jump up and down smoothly, just like the Mick Jaggar plus Japan's bassist Mike Karn's style.
They have a well-organized manager Uncle Ray to help them a lot. To form their fan club, arrange their own weekly TV show and published monthly magazine, Their own composed song "Norman's fancy" was the theme song of a TV's show "Sound beat 68".

Interview with Teddy
http://www.rocksquare.net/Teddyrobin.html

Record sleeve of Teddy Robin & The Playboys
http://images.google.com.hk/images?q=teddy+robin+and+the+playboys&hl=zh-TW&btnG=%E6%90%9C%E5%B0%8B%E5%9C%96%E7%89%87


By the way, thanks for the "news of Thunder" by Mr. Eddie Ho.

Dear Pepperonie,

Wow, you know much about the 60's hk pop scene, later on if i write some articles about it, I must ask you and Eddie Ho for help. Did you collect Diamond records?

Dear Muzikland,

I grew up in 60's which was the golden years of music. As the influence of Beatles whcih directly affacted the blooming of band established in Hong Kong. All the bands were well received by teenager at that time. I would like to share my music experience with you & Mr. Eddie Ho. By the way, Mr. Steve Yiu, the first responded to this thread, is an expert in 60's music too.

I don't have much Diamond record (LP), only got a few singles.

The music of the 60's still is my favourite on the top of my list and never will be forgotten.

Dear Eddie Ho,

謝謝你的資料﹐很詳盡啊﹐使我對他們更瞭解﹐我聽過他們的歌不多﹐只有 She's In Hong Kong 及 Summer Fun﹐不過都很喜歡。想不到原來他們都頗有名的﹐你也有他們的LP 嗎﹖

Dear Pepperonie,

60's is a golden era of music, because of Beatles, Rolling Stones etc, there was a British Invasion in the States. It also inflected Asia, incl. HK. Do you play in the band during that time?
Moreover, have you known Eddie and Steve before?

Dear Muzikland,

I played rhythm guitar just for fun in my teens day. But I haven't touch the guitar for years. I don't know Eddie and Steve either but I'm glad to share the music here.

Dear Pepperonie,

Wow, you played in the band during the 60's, then you were the 飛仔 of that era, right? :)
Just kidding.

Dear Muzikland,

In our time, participated in the band normally described as "teddy boy" with a bad reputation and behavior, due to the generaton gap or the moral and conservative views.

But to form a band was every teenage's dream in our time. Of course, we played very amateur and inexperience but we got a wonderful time.

Dear Pepperonie,

It must be fun, then why don't you play again now?

Dear Muzikland,

Too old to Rock n Roll, too young to.............

Dear Pepperonie,

... be married? :)

Dear Muzikland,

Too old to Rock n Rock - Jethro Tull

Too young to be married - The Hollies

Dear Pepperonie,

It's Still Rock And Roll To Me - Billy Joel
And Alphaville, Bob Dylan, Rod Stewart all said "Forever Young"

你也有他們的LP 嗎﹖
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EMI從未為The Thunders出版過一張獨一的LP,但就有把他們的She's in Hong Kong 收錄於一張名Golden Oldies的Compilation LP內。
http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs101&d=06233&f=GoldenOldies.jpg

當時的翻版碟也有收錄....
http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs101&d=06233&f=FestivalWP3026.jpg

前年出版的"Uncle Ray Meets The Stars"CD內亦有,但在這CD內該曲的輸出音質十分差,我從Golden Oldies那LP內錄出來的CDR比它還要好得多。
http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs101&d=06233&f=UncleRayMeetsTheStars.jpg

事實上, The Thunders 只為EMI灌錄了四張Single。

第一張是在1968年, Side A是She's in Hong Kong, Side B是My Love Is A Dream。
第二張在1969年, Side A是Look At My Eyes, Side B是A Minha Tristeza。
第三張也是在1969年, Side A是Summer Fun，Side B是I Won't Say Goodbye。
最後一張是在1970年, Side A是Namorado Clumento, Side B是Goodbye My Friend。

Dear Eddie Ho,

You're back again.
I only have Golden Oldies and Summer Fun single.
I also have Uncle Ray CD, but I strongly agreed with you that the sound quality is really bad!!

Do you play in the band during that time?
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I had been playing in the band during my secondary studies.

Please take a look on this. Ha Ha!

http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs301&d=06234&f=1975Deserters1.JPG

Dear Eddie Ho,

No.
Cos I'm younger than you and Pepperonie.
Perhaps you both know each other when you meet.

Dear Eddie,

Good morning, you are an expert of "Thunder". I wish I was playing band with you.

Dear Eddie Ho,

I was so happy that I found the Thunders CD last Friday. :)
The later recording is not as attractive as the original recording at all, but the book is the most valuable stuff.

Dear Muzikland,

Where did you locate that CD? Is that the bookstore in Macao I mentioned above? As I've already told you, all the CD recordings are not the original versions. BTW, I just finished copying and converting all the relevant CD contents (including pictures) to html format but don't know where I can find a free web space to accommodate it for public viewing. Can you give me some idea?

Dear Eddie Ho,

When I knew that I would go to Macau, I called the publisher for details. But you know they don’t know they had this product, that's Portuguese' style in Macau. So when I arrived, I went to several book store but with no result, so I decided to go to the store you mentioned in order to find out more info, but surprisingly they have stock.

According to your info, I of course know they are not original version. But they are still the Thunders, I can’t believe the re-recording version are so bad. They sang and played so bad.

For the posting, I don’t really understand what you say about the html. If they are pictures, you already had xs.to, but if they are words, you may open an account of hot mail, they have msn space to post essay.

The thing is that I typed the English contents of that "biography" and copied/pasted all scanned pictures in word form and then saved it in html (webpage) format. The total size of the finished file is about 11M, and which, is too large for posting it to the MSN Space as it allows only up to 1M for free. That's the reason why I asked you if you can help to find a website, like the xs.to for pictures hosting, for my uploading the file to it and such that a web link be created. I also know that I can make use of Yahoo Geocities 's facility to get it done but I'm just too lazy to learn the techniques from it. I only know the simplest method, like this....
http://hk.geocities.com/eddiecfho/kongling.html

Dear Eddie Ho,

Then I hve no idea now.

Hi there

Is there anyone who can remember who sang "Can you blame me?" by a male vocalist in HK? It was released in the mid-1960s in a 45rpm vinyl.

The HK pop scene in the 1960s was such a wonderful period that those baby boomers who were born in that era must remember the music they grew up listening to, loving and playing. Recalling the rise to stardom for the Thunders from Macao, I remembered the singing contest that they won was organized by TVB, a show called "Star Show" hosted by Sam Hui and Gigi Yu. The contest was by the name of "電話定天才" (Talent determined by telephone). The viewers cast their vote by telephoning the show. Yes, they performed beautifully "She's in HK" and beat a number of HK skiffle groups, and yet, the runner-up, i.e. D'Elements was also awarded a contract by the EMI. They recorded their own composition (Hand in hand) penned by the lead singer Zulu Wong. The flip side of Hand in hand is "Mr. Personality man" which is a covered version of the Foundations' work.

In a word, the music scene in HK in the 1960s brings us back lots of memories, the Talent Quest, the Sing Tao Daily News’ annual singing contest (with James Wong as the compere), the Star Show, the Young Beat, the Scene, the In-place, to name a few. Some of the teddy boys who formed the skiffle groups in the 1960s are now doing quite good such as Ricky Fung 馮添枝 of the Mystics, Ricky Fung　馮載祥 of the Mad Revival, Ronnie Tong 湯家華. All in, it would be a great joy to those who love the HK 1960s pop music for the Diamond Records (and now the UMG) or EMI to dig into their vaults and release all those loving tunes into CDs such as Spencer Lum’s “It ain’t necessarily so”, D’Swooners’ “In my room”.

Regards
Joe

Dear Joe,

Thanks for your information and sharing.
Please tell me more. Later on I want to start a 60's series.

Dear Muzik

I have tried many sources to look for "Can you blame me?" but in vain. The group that sang this song was composed of 4 guys who were relatively much older than Teddy Robin, Sam Hui, Joe Jr. I saw them appeared in a program at Redifusion Television(now ATV) at around 1966. It might be the Young Beat hosted by Marylin Palmer who recorded "I want one boy" which is one of my favourite tunes. Sad to say that "I want one boy" is not included in the History of Diamond Records.

Meanwhile, Solo Wong of the former Elements is now performing at a Mediterranean restaurant in Yuen Long from Thursday to Sunday night every week. He is quite popular there, and his performance will be broadcasted live via the internet later on. Will tell you more when I have the website on the telecast.

Cheerio
Joe

Dear Joe,

Actually those HK 60's tunes are rarely found these days even the vinyl. Though you found them, they are so expensive, especially the Diamond records. May be you search it in the ebay, sometimes you will get surprise there.

For the Band Elements, do you mean it's the 元素樂隊 in the 70's?
I also know Solo Wong, he sings at the Cheer O Cafe in the Yaumati YWCA too. Wow he has website for telecast? Please tell me when you have the link. Thanks. :)

[For the Band Elements, do you mean it's the 元素樂隊 in the 70's]

Yes, The Elements = 元素樂隊. I have a LP released by D'Elements in 1976 under the label of "House Records" (好市唱片), image link as below.

http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs102&d=06244&f=TheElementsShakeYourBooty.jpg

[a show called "Star Show" hosted by Sam Hui and Gigi Yu]

我還記得Gigi Yu的中文名字是"余杏美"。Star Show(青年節目)最早期的主持人，除了Sam Hui之外，還有一位能操流利廣東話的外籍男仕名Chris Hunt(洪占)，Gigi Yu是後些時才加入的。當時Michael Remedios & The Mystics是節目的常客演出樂隊，而每週三是民歌環節，Michael Kwan(關正傑)及Sam Ho(何國禧)都是憑常在該民歌環節演唱才廣為本地聽眾熟識，Michael並在節目中教授彈奏民歌結他。後期還有星洲的The Quests(六傑士)加入，成為節目的長駐樂隊。

這些六十年代本地年青歌手的演出及音樂製作，至今仍是我腦海內的美好回憶......

Hi Eddie

Where did all of the time go? We,the baby boomers who were born from the post WWII to the mid-1960s are turning at least 50 now. The pop scene of the 1960s in HK still lingers and lingers in my heads that inspired me much. Some music disappears soon after release or the appreciation of it diminishes but the HK pop music in the 1960s will never die.

You are very informative about the Star Show. I also remembered Chris Hunt who seemed to join the RHKPF in the 1970s. When you talked about Gigi Yu, you must relate her to Albert of the former Lotus as they appeared to be a pair of "golden boy and jade girl". Other than the guys you mentioned such as the Quests, Teddy Robin also took part as one of the hosts of the Star Show getting relatively high pay at that time (despite the fact that Teddy Robin and the Playboys and the Lotus were rivals at that time). After all, Teddy Robin & the Playboys released more vinyls while the Lotus' "I'll be waiting" was not released for sale soon after its production was completed. Diamond kept that vinyl for awhile. That's why Sam Hui sang Paul Jones (of the Manfred Mann)'s "Privillege" (1967), a theme song from the movie of the same name at one of the Star Show to express his feeling towards ... "Privillege" is a movie about a fictional rock star who struggles to deal with his personal problems, amidst violent live shows,and assorted political conspiracies that attempt to manipulate and control him (by the record company?).

By the way, the Singaporean bands such as the Starlights, the Jet, the Stray Dogs were also quite popular in the 1960s.

As to Muzik's mentioning of Solo Wong, I will talk to him Saturday night. Solo autographed the 45rpm vinyl (Hand in Hand) D' Elements cut with EMI Record for me.

So much for now.

Joe

Dear Joe & Eddie,

As mentioned the 'Star Show", I remember I had went to TVB as spectator in "Sar Show". The show was started at 2 or 3 pm at Saturday and recorded for the following week's programme (5 series). It was a very memorable monent still remember even after some thirty odd years.

I can't forget The Quest's "Rainbow" & "Sandy", Peter Nelson's "Skye boat song" & Mike Way's "Two three four'.I do have good memory of the past. It's a sympton of dementia. Nevertheless, we both are getting old......

Hi Muzikland, Joe & Pepperone,

Here's the link, after more than one week's "meaningless" copying of mine, in getting nearly all contents of the Thunders' album "A Story of Success in the 60's" appearing on the net, the first time I think, for your sharing, though I understand that Muzikland owns a hardcopy recently.

http://www.geocities.com/kt5354eh/thethundersofmacau.htm

Dear Joe, Pepperonie & Eddie Ho,

Thanks for the sharing. I am a little bit young to experience those events, so I really love to hear you guys mention more. My next series will be 60's HK pop scene, so please comments and share more as I don't have much information yet.

Dear Eddie Ho,

Actually you have done a great job, your works just like a website for Thunders. I like it.

The below text is copied from:
http://blog.roodo.com/muzikland/archives/495157.html#comments

Dear Seefried and Muzik

Just a little bit of information about Kong Ling. As far as my memory serves me correctly, Kong Ling married a school principal in the 1960s by the surname of Lim whose father was the school manager. I was studying at that college in the early 1970s, and students there knew that the school principal’s wife was a popular singer.

Hope that this information can help the guy who responded to Eddie Ho and said in another blog that Kong Ling might be her/his best friend's mother.
(http://www.vinylparadise.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=420&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=30)

Regards
Joe

Dear Joe,

Thanks for your information. Actually it's very difficult to find her info, even her records.

Dear Muzik

I am so fortunate that I still keep a few copies of Kong Ling's records including the 45rpm vinyl "Let's go off-beat" but I lost the cover sleeve. The flip side of "Let's go off-beat" is "One way ticket" which has been re-released recently by UMG in a 4-CD box set.

Incidentally, "Let's go off beat" was based on a popular Latin rhythm called cha-lypso, a modified cha-cha done to a calypso beat. Paul Anka's "Diana" was composed along the same line.

Bye
Joe

Dear Joe,

Let's go off-beat is one of my all time favorites album as it's the record my father played often since I was a little kid. I especially love Let's Go Off-beat.
I don't have the single you mentioned, may be it's the one I don't have. I heard Diamond had released 4 EP for Kong Ling which were called Vol 1-Vol 4 and I don't have Vol.2. It could be the one you mentioned.

How about Eddie Ho, do you have Vol. 2?

Dear Muzikland,

I have neither the EP Vol.2 nor the "Let's Go Off-Beat/One Way Ticket" single of Kong Ling. But a web friend of mine has the latter one.

http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs300&d=06202&f=KongLingEPVol4.jpg

Dear Eddie Ho,

Thanks for yor pictures, but I already have this. Right now I have 1,3 & 4.

近日得到 Joe 的 Email, 提供了幾張極之珍貴唱片圖片﹐他們分別是

1/ Kong Ling 的 單曲 One Way Ticket To The Blues / Let's Go Off-Beat.
http://static.flickr.com/66/200498037_ab953b1825.jpg

2/ Joe Jr. & The Side-Effects - Our Girls
http://static.flickr.com/59/200498038_70578a333a.jpg

3/ Rowena Cortes
http://static.flickr.com/72/200498039_965d77a569.jpg

4/ The Willows Go Soalin'
http://static.flickr.com/63/200498040_120b5e2288.jpg

早前自己因為實在太忙﹐故這麼遲才貼上來﹐我相信Joe 會詳加介紹的﹐再一次謝謝 Joe 的照片。

Thanks!

"Kong Ling 的單曲"--are they 7-inch records?

Wow, Rowena won the Talent Quest when she was only a child?! I wonder if anyone has a complete list of winnners of Talent Quest and other similar contests.

Dear Muzik,

Rowena (露雲娜) was the most youngest (at the age of 6 or 7)to win the Telent Quest with the song 'There's gotta be away'. She had beaten Joe Chen and all the elder competitors. This 7" vinyl "Very Very" was very popular at that time.

Dear C,

It is a 7" single.


Dear Pepperonie,

I don't know much about Rowena actully, but this picture was provided by Joe. I only remmeber her "Jolene" in the 70's and also she had 賈思樂 as partner to do the show "Bang Bang 咁既聲"。Hope that you both will share more her information.

各位朋友好,我都是60's香港樂隊的歌迷!

這是我收藏的其中一張舊照片，我想問下有沒有人知道相中的是誰?我看了很多資料也不能確定是誰

http://show.imagehosting.us/show/1520738/0/nouser_1520/T0_-1_1520738.jpg

Eddie,幾年前你email過一首Rowena既歌俾我，唔知你記唔記得我?

Dear Stephen,

歡迎你來Muzikland﹐我也曾多年前以 email 問過你﹐你是否另一位同名的Stephen﹐記得嗎﹖
你那張照片﹐我覺得點像 Sam Hui﹐不過看下去又好像不是﹐還是待各位高人解答好了。

記不起了...

很高興有這一個地方可以一起討論60年代的香港樂隊，我一直都很想做一個有關60年代樂隊的web site!

請問訪客是不是不可直接貼圖?我想分享一些我的收藏

Dear Stephen,

我想Blog 有個限制﹐就是在留言時不可貼圖﹐所以你惟有把圖存在相薄中﹐然後把 hyperlink Copy 過來。先謝對你的分享﹐等待中。:)

Dear Muzikland,

不要緊，我照樣up load上網再貼link出來吧! 我之前post的那一張Star Show照片，有機會是Sam Ho嗎?

很羡慕這裡有些朋友是60年代長大的，我是70年代出世的，沒經歷過這美好的60年代。

約12年前我無意中買了一隻Teddy Robin & The Playboys的黑膠唱片後，便開始收集60年代樂隊的唱片和有關資料。差不多一出糧便到信和之類的二手唱片集中地買60年代的樂隊唱片，那時正是黑膠過渡CD的時期，很多人都轉賣他們的舊唱片(還有移民潮和舊區重建等因素)，因此很幸運地讓我買到很多60年代樂隊的唱片，以及少量舊雜誌和照片。早一陣子我和信和二手店的廖生閒聊，他說現在已經很少回收到Diamond等60年代的唱片了!

http://show.imagehosting.us/show/1526663/0/nouser_1526/T0_-1_1526663.jpg

我有大概十多期歌迷俱樂部，裡面有很多有關60年代的樂隊資料!

[Eddie,幾年前你email過一首Rowena既歌俾我，唔知你記唔記得我?]

Sorry Stephen, 我沒有印像在幾年前email過Rowena的歌给在網上的朋友，你還否記得是那隻Rowena的歌曲呀？因我本身並沒有太多她曾灌錄過的歌曲。我只擁有她一張1998年寶麗金88極品音色系列的"露雲娜"CD，及一張文志唱片去年出版的一張她在好市唱片(House Records)年代灌錄的英文歌曲CD，後者網頁連结如下。

http://www.manchinet.com/

Dear Stephen,

我很少會花錢買這些二手東西﹐就算有也不太多﹐因為這些雖然很罕有﹐但是價錢就太貴了﹐有些更是天價。
很羨慕你有那麼多這類舊雜誌﹐我相信讀起來一定非常有趣味﹐其實這些資料真的像失傳似的﹐在網上更是很少人提到。我也很幸運地有好幾位像你這樣的朋友﹐在留言中提供不少資料﹐讓我這裡的60年代系列豐富了不少。謝謝你。

Dear Eddie Ho,

Stephen 提到的 Rowena 應是鳴茜哩。

http://blog.roodo.com/muzikland/archives/1833061.html

[這是我收藏的其中一張舊照片，我想問下有沒有人知道相中的是誰?我看了很多資料也不能確定是誰]

Dear Stephen,

你這張珍藏照片相中的人物，我看來有很大可能程度是關正傑，原因是照片中的佈景版，有Star Show (TVB青年節目)的字樣，我曾在上文說過，在早期的Star Show，每逢週三是民歌環節，而關正傑不時在該環節拿着木結他彈奏及演唱西洋民歌，並教授和弦結他。但我也不敢確實是他，關鍵是關正傑在出道灌錄唱片時，是沒有架眼鏡的！

Dear Eddie Ho,

It's impossible that he's Michael. He couldn't be so thin and wore glasses.

http://blog.roodo.com/muzikland/archives/1903563.html

My friend said he should be one of the Lotus, he may tell the who he was later.

Dear Muzik,

If the person in the picture (posted by Stephen)was one of the Lotus, would it be "Albert Li" ? By the way, the logo and the background of the picture was really Psychedelic and 60's feel.

Dear Pepperonie,

I'm still waiting my friend's reply. :)

Dear Muzikland, Pepperonie & Stephen,

我認為相片中的人物，全不是當時在Star Show演出的The Lotus任何成員，就算他看似是Albert Li，但Albert Li的頭髮分界方向和相片中的人物的頭髮分界方向是不同，可参考以下The Lotus當年的相片網頁連結。

http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs204&d=06320&f=TheLotuspic4a.JPG

http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs204&d=06320&f=TheLotuspic3a.JPG

http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs204&d=06320&f=TheLotuspic2a.JPG

http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs204&d=06320&f=TheLotuspic1a.JPG


反而我現在覺得他像Joe Chen陳任.......

Dear Muzikland,

最貴的都是Lotus的唱片(因為有Sam Hui)，其他的舊唱片雜誌也不算是天價。說真的，香港收集Teddy Robin，Joe Jr.等舊唱片的人也不算很多。我記得有一次在二手店同另一位唱片收藏者閒話家常(我是不認識他的)，我說我在找60年代的香港樂隊唱片，他說"聽Joe Jr.不如買Cliff Richard的唱片聽吧!"我記不起我當時是如何回答他的，總之我不完全認同他的想法。不過個人的口味很難說吧!

再者，大部份的Diamond唱片都沒有出CD，沒辦法只好花錢買唱片啦。我覺得Diamond的唱片封面有很多都很美麗，CD很難比美! 我沒有一張Diamond唱片買了之後覺得後悔，反而有一兩張之前沒有買，後來再也買不到了。

Dear Eddie,

不會是陳任吧，樣子不同呢!

Dear Stephen,

我其實也是一個喜歡原唱的人﹐不過老實說﹐音樂是主觀的﹐所以各人喜好不同。至於 Joe Jr 也很有其特色﹐不過說他唱得似他的偶像 Cliff Richard﹐又不像吧。那麼你有齊 Kong King 的 Diamond 唱片嗎﹖我很喜歡她的。

不齊，我最初主要是聽60年代樂隊的，江玲不是那一類，我沒刻意收集，後來才開始喜歡她! 最喜愛她的中詞西曲!

你還喜歡那些60年代樂隊?

Dear Stephen,

我最喜歡是 Fabulous Echoes, 早前的港式西洋風系列﹐我對他們及江玲的介紹比較多。還有Mystcis﹑Menace﹑Joe Jr 我都喜歡。

Dear Muzikland,

我也喜歡Fabulous Echoes、Mystics、Joe Jr，我會post多一些他們的東西上來。你不喜歡Teddy Robin & The Playboys，Anders Nelson嗎?

你們提到的The Elements，我在其中一期的歌迷俱樂部找到點資料。不過歌手叫Zuro Wong(黃文碩)，不是Solo Wong。是不是同一人呢?

http://www.photo-host.org/v/play-games/151553the_elements.jpg

Dear Stephen,

Elements 早在60年代及70年代都已在樂壇發展﹐至於是否同一隊﹐我就不太清楚﹐但是我記得 Solo 曾說過 Elements 是由他創辦的。會否是後期他把名字串法改了﹖至於60年代的 Band﹐對於Teddy Robin 或 Anders Nelson, 沒有說不喜歡﹐但沒有偏愛吧﹐至於 Anderson Nelson 在 60年代發的歌曲也不多呢。不過我喜歡的幾隊﹐感覺如Fabulous Echoes灌錄的歌曲比較多﹐水準非常穩定﹐可能是早期的職業 Band 吧﹐又是老外﹐而Mystics﹑Menace 個人風格都很強。

Dear Muzikland,

這麼巧合，可能是同一人吧! 我同意你的講法，Zuro和solo可能是改了串法。(還是雜誌串錯了?)

不知道他們在60年代有沒有出過唱片?

Dear Stephen,

他們在60年代應該在 EMI 錄過唱片。
http://blog.roodo.com/muzikland/archives/1865385.html

Dear Muzikland,

謝謝，我沒有買這兩套CD。我想問CD有介紹樂隊和歌手的資料嗎?

Uncle Ray在Diamond也出過一張LP叫All The Way With Ray

Dear Stephen,

那兩張專輯除了是賣罕有舊錄音外﹐資料一概欠奉﹐音色絕爛。
這就是我常提及香港人的所作所為了。

Dear Stephen,

是否這張呀？

http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs102&d=06250&f=AllTheWayWithRay1.jpg

Dear Eddie,

我的那一張是藍色封面的，是同一張嗎? 這唱片陣容強勁，但是我覺得一般好聽，你覺得如何?

http://show.imagehosting.us/show/1537835/0/nouser_1537/T0_-1_1537835.jpg

照拍得不好，有小許out focus了

Dear Eddie & Stephen,

看來鑽石名曲選的Poster還是把一些大碟 (專/輯合輯) 遺漏了。你們可否列出歌曲及歌手資料呢﹖

Dear Stephen & Muzikland,

我那張在封套上的名稱是"all the way with RAY - radio hong kong 11.00 pm - 1.00 am"，和你那張是不同的，但有數首曲是相同。

唱片收錄的纯樂器演奏樂曲如下:

Side One
1) River Of No Return
2) My Love For You
3) And The Sun Will Shine
4) Je T'aime (Love At First Sight)
5) Cindy Oh Cindy
6) Judy Judy Judy
7) Twelfth Of Never
8) Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying/I'll Be There

Side Two
1) Ginny Come Lately
2) All Over The World
3) Look For A Star
4) The World Is Getting Smaller
5) Sealed With A Kiss
6) You'll Never Walk Alone
7) Silence Is Golden
8) We Will Make Love

封套背面，Uncle Ray在文章中最後一句，是致謝參與灌錄該唱片的演奏成員: Norman Cheng (guitar)，Ricky Fung (bass)，Nick Domingo (organ/piano)及Donald Ashley (drums)。而文章其後，亦有印出這唱片所有選曲皆是由"The Nightowls"編排及演奏的。由此可見，這班當年的樂壇大哥，為了捧Uncle Ray的場，把他們的臨時組合命名為"The Nightowls"。

唱片中的一曲"Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying/I'll Be There"，其後在1997年Polygram HK出版的寶麗金88極品音色系列之"極品珍藏英語版"，亦有收錄在內。

Dear Eddie,

看來是同一張唱片。雖是纯樂器演奏，但附上了歌詞。我印象中只見過這一張Diamond唱片是附有歌詞的(不計那些把歌曲印在封套後的碟)

Dear Stephen,

我最近發現潘迪華有些 Diamond 唱片是有歌詞冊的。

Dear Stephen,

日前我朋友回覆我﹐他應是 Wallace Chow。

http://show.imagehosting.us/show/1520738/0/nouser_1520/T0_-1_1520738.jpg

Dear Muzikland,

謝謝你熱心的找出相中人。

Wallace Chow當年好似已經是肥仔一名，我不是有太多Lotus的相，不過你可參考一下上面Eddie貼的Lotus相。

朋友們，認人行動又來啦!

這是我最鍾愛的collection，Sound Beat大合照! 你地應該有好多都認得啦!

http://show.imagehosting.us/show/1545044/0/nouser_1545/T0_-1_1545044.jpg

Dear Muzikland & Eddie,

昨日我一整晚都在上you tube，有些Video真的要和你們分享一下。我先不說有什麼內容，希望能有點驚喜。最後那兩個Video最讓我興奮(我差點從椅上掉下來)，還是留在最後看吧!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDIsG1SoJ9I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzAnCAkp0ik
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=322jKwprp9U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnNSyHTme7U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhBEQMGqi4s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbus7uO83vs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkX9X9E_MpE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xIVv3VsBC4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3bZaXrcbaA (有其他的演出連結在右手邊)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87F603JKdBs (有其他的演出連結在右手邊)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnIt1y1FP4w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzfef56uavI

Dear Stephen,

真沒想到有這兩個 Video﹐其實我從未想過在 youtube 搜尋他們呢﹐原來竟會有這種結果。 Youtube 其實常給人驚喜﹐不過我常感到終有一日他們會因為版權問題而被告﹐甚至倒閉﹐所以我寫的東西﹐在內容方面也不敢太依賴他們。

Dear Stephen & Muzikland,

[Wallace Chow當年好似已經是肥仔一名]

是呀，The Lotus在Star Show演出期間，從節目最初開始到他們的台柱樂隊位置被Teddy Robin & The Playboys所取代，Wallace Chow都是肥仔的身型和梳"椰壳頭"的髮型，所以我也不認為相片中的人是他。

Dear Stephen,

多謝你的Youtube video分享。有時世事是很巧合的，你這兩天在Youtube找到不少珍貴的The Quests MTV，而我這兩天....哈哈，我也成功託一位往星加坡公幹的同事，找到兩張我很渴望能擁有但在香港購買不到的CD，其中一張就是在2003年EMI出版的Recollecting The Quests，我不知你有否這張CD，但如你沒有的話，相信你及在上文另兩位60年代本地西洋樂曲擁躉Pepperonie及Joe會有興趣的，Blog主Muzikland可能不大熟悉The Quests，因他比我們年輕得多嘛，哈哈。我看到他在另文說我這兩天失了蹤，因我掛着去找上述那位同事收取買回來的CD呀！

Recollecting The Quests和在2004年出版的Recollecting The Quests Vol. 2都是雙CD集，後者是我去年已在本地的HMV買來的。

這兩套CD的封面相片連結及歌曲如下:

Recollecting The Quests

http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs305&d=06336&f=RecollectingTheQuests.JPG

CD1
01) Shanty (1964 version)
02) Gallopin' (1964 version)
03) Push Push
04) That You Are Mine
05) Tea Break (1965 version)
06) Pop Inn Theme
07) Don't Play That Song
08) Be My Girl
09) Memories
10) I'm Feeling Good
11) Champagne
12) The Sound Of Music
13) Earth Angel
14) Lonely Street
15) You Talk Too Much
16) Silly Girl
17) A Sign Of The Times
18) Look In My Eyes
19) She's The One
20) You Are Standing By Me
21) The Shadow Of Your Smile
22) In A World Of Our Own
23) My Favourite Things

CD2
01) You're Tellin' Lies
02) Drivin' Me Mad
03) Yang Di-man Satu
04) Lengang Lengang KangKong
05) Roller Coaster Man
06) The Dancer
07) Mustapha
08) Nonya Baba A-Go-Go
09) Rose, Rose I Love You
10) Da Doo Ron Ron
11) This Nearly Was Mine
12) Mr. Rainbow
13) Georgy Girl
14) 26 Miles
15) Sunny
16) Aku Kembali Lagi (I'll Be Back)
17) Chinta-ku Jauh
18) Hava Nagila
19) The Indian Maid
20) Tea Break (1968 version)
21) Jesamine
22) Jilted
23) Tears

Recollecting The Quests Vol. 2

http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs204&d=06302&f=RecollectingTheQuestsVol2.jpg

This Side
01) Come On and Shout
02) Love Has Gone
03) The Man From Madrid
04) Dum Dum
05) I'm On Top Of The World
06) I Want A Home
07) Mockin' Bird Hill
08) Ding Dong Twist
09) I'll Be Your Man
10) Shanty (1966 version)
11) All My Sorrows
12) Honey House
13) Please Try And Understand
14) Instrumentally Western
15) I'll Be Looking Out For You
16) Come On Down To My Boat
17) What's Wrong With The Way I Live
18) Guantanamera
19) Never Ever
20) I'll Never Fall In Love Again
21) Hur Pi Tzu Shau Shiang [何必去燒番香]
22) The Return Of Spring [大地回春]
23) Sayonara

That Side
01) La La La Means I Love You
02) A World Of Tomorrows
03) Pop Inn Theme (1968 version)
04) Gallopin' (1968 version)
05) What Is Soul?
06) Sunshine Of Your Love
07) Hey Girl
08) Soul Finger
09) Love Is Blue
10) The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
11) Sound Of Silence
12) Proud Mary
13) Traces
14) Time Is Tight
15) I'd Wait A Million Years
16) Don't Forget To Remember
17) When The Clock Strikes Twelve
18) Love At First Sight
19) Holiday
20) The Cage
21) Who'll Stop The Rain?
22) American Woman
23) Love And The World Loves With You

Dear Eddie,

我好像在ebay見過這些CD，間中也有The Quests的黑膠碟呢! 看來大部份的歌都不是當年的version，是嗎? The Quests不是我的favourite，可能因為他們不是香港樂隊吧! 在網上不時也看到一些紀念The Quests的網站和文章，反而有關香港樂隊60年代的則絕無僅有...

http://www.geocities.jp/a104gs/quests.html
http://groups.msn.com/FriendsoftheQuests

Eddie,

還有...我想問問Don Choi有出過什麼碟?我只有一首One Day在Top Hits 70's的大碟中

Dear Stephen,

據我所知，Don Choi還有兩首歌被Diamond灌錄為唱片，"Close To You"及"Sweetheart"，收錄於Super Hits '70大碟內。在Blog主Muzikland的"鑽石時期的精選合輯唱片"專題文章後，我有把該大碟內的歌曲抄錄出來。

http://blog.roodo.com/muzikland/archives/1857709.html

Dear Stephen,

在這兩套"The Quests"CD內收錄的歌曲，全是原版本(orginal version)。

我記得The Quests當年在香港發展演唱事業期間，也是廣受本地樂迷歡迎的，在TVB的Star Show節目，有一段時期他們甚至取代了The Lotus，成為節目的駐場樂隊。

http://pachome1.pacific.net.sg/~samhot/Quests.htm

在星加坡本地，The Quests的受歡迎程度更是不得了。因為他們是自星加坡獨立後，第一支本地的華人及巫人組合，能成功衝出星洲向外發展。他們在1964年為EMI灌錄第一張single的兩首純音樂曲，"Shanty”及”Gallopin’"，更是他們的原創作品。而EMI當年為他們灌錄成唱片的歌曲，數量比同期在香港Diamond為Teddy Robin & The Playboys或Joe Junior灌錄的還要多，你看看我在上文抄錄他們的CD歌曲就可理解啦。

Dear Stephen & Eddie,

Thanks for bringing back many pleasant memories of "The Quests" (六傑士). I am interested in your CDs of "Recollecting The Quests vol. 1&2"

I remembered they liked to play "La La means I love you" and "Soul finger" in those days. And I have heard the "Shanty" from Uncle Ray's programme a few months ago. I love this instrumental which was full of "Shadows" and 60's feel. By the way, It might inspire Norman's "Sands of time".

This link contains of "The Quests" , "Joe Junior" and "Ander Nelson" is worth to read.
http://60spunk.m78.com/singaporeanbandsnew.html

Let the good times roll !!!

Dear Stephen,

[朋友們，認人行動又來啦!]

我的"認人"心水。

http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs205&d=06330&f=SoundBeat1.jpg

Eddie,

後面幾位我只認得Marilyn Pamler，我看不清楚你打的字，可以再告訴我嗎?

Hi Muzik

Referring to your message (as well as Eddie) of 28.5.2006 about UMG, I know that Vivendi SA (owner of UMG) agreed to buy Bertelsmann AG's BMG music-publishing division for 1.63 billion euros on 6, September 2006 to become the world's largest music publisher. This will give UMG leapfrog EMI as the world's biggest music publisher and add more artists including Justin Timerlake to its repertoire.

By the way, the guy in the photo is definitely not Wallace Chow of the former Lotus or Michael Kwan.

As to 黃文碩, he used the name Zulo when he formed D’Elements. D' Elements won the Star Show’s 電話定天才 with Zulo Wong's own composition “Hand in hand”on 14 July 1968. The name Zulo Wong was written as composer on "Hand in hand" on the EMI 45rpm vinyl record. No doubt about it as I still keep that vinyl. Zulo Wong first won the Sing Tao Daily News Singing Contest in 1967 (1968?) as a soloist covering the Kingston Trio’s “Geenback dollar” before forming D’Elements.

Check this out and you will find more about Solo Wong now.
http://hksingalong.com/Chinese.html
http://hkfolk.cwfolknet.com/2005/performers.htm#5

Solo is now performing from Thursday to Sunday in a restaurant in Yuen Long specializing S. American cuisine. Great food, good songs by Solo … What more …?

Joe

To Stephen & Eddie

I know that Don Choi （蔡業慧） is doing quite well in Toronto, Canada as a real estate agent now. He, a graduate of the Pui Ching Middle School at Ho Man Tin, left HK to Canada for good in the 1970s. While he was in HK in the 1970s, he joined a number of skiffle groups such as the Wot’s Happening, the Mystics. He is still gigging with Ricky Chan 陳家蓀 in Toronto. The latest Don Choi in Concert was held at the Markham Theatre, Toronto on 3 August 2006 with Anders Nelson as one of the guests in the show.

Bye
Joe

Dear Muzik,
By chance I went into this blog yesterday and can't stop from reading all the news about the sixties band sound. My favorite bands at the 60's were the Thunders, D'Elements, Black Jacks, etc. Best guitarist of course Norman Cheng, Ricky Fund & Wallace, they were all my idols.

I wonder if the footages of the sound beat 67 & 68 still exist, it will be great to see the live band performance once again even if they were in B/W, it was produced by RTV at that time.

BL

Dear BL,

I like The Thunders﹐but my most favorites are Kong Ling & Fabulous Echoes. But it doesn't matter as some friends came here also had their favor. Please come often and you may have a very good sharing with them.
Regarding the RTV footage, I have no idea if we still have chance to watch it, youtube always give us miracles and suprise, let's check it out. Last time the links posted by Stephen above at August 20,2006 02:55 DID give me a big big suprise.

Hello
It's late to find this precious
site where we could share the
HK pop scene of the 60s

If you are interested, you could
visit the my Youtube site
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=webbburt777

as i have uploaded many songs/videos of the 60s /70s
which include those of Teddy,
Joe Junior ....etc etc etc

Dear webburt777,

This is the topic that friends have most reply in my blog.
Welcome to join in.
Thanks for the MV, I saw my pictures here in the MV. Great~
Welcome to Muzikland!

有人會有The Thunders 的She's in Hong Kong的mp3(或其他格式檔案)嗎?

我的樂隊最近玩這首歌, 但除了讀小學時在同學家裡聽過外, 便一直沒有再遇到過。有人可以幫忙嗎?

Dear Si Ping,

很抱歉﹐我在首頁已聲明了﹕
Muzikland 旨在提供及分享音樂資料與訊息。為了尊重音樂版權﹐這裡不會提供任何音樂檔 (mp3) 交換活動。

不過這首歌可以在“Uncle Ray Meets The Stars (2004/Universal/EMI)”這套CD找到﹐HMV仍有售的。關於這套CD﹐我這裡有介紹﹕
http://blog.roodo.com/muzikland/archives/1865385.html

有關文字上的相互分享﹐則非常歡迎啊~

Dear webbburt777,

I've tried to visit your YouTube Site but it seems suspended..

Dear Muzikland,

The Thunders的主音歌手Rigoberto Rosario (阿B)目前在巴西生活. 安享晚年生活.

Dear 胴太貫主人,

謝謝你的資料﹐有關 The Thunders﹐我過去曾有一篇貼文﹐不妨看看~

http://blog.roodo.com/muzikland/archives/1778897.html

Hello Friend from Macau
My Youtube web site has been changed to:
http://www.youtube.com/user/burtweb333

for some time already.
My latest posts are some oldies of cantonese songs
of the 60s movies like Connie Chan Po Chu singing
Beatles' Eight Days a Week , Nancy Sit Ka Yin singing Herman's Hermits' No Milk Today
They sounded cute, i think :-)

Dear Webbburt777,

I tried to visit http://www.youtube.com/user/burtweb333 but with the message "User burtweb333 not found! ". Pls check.

J

搞掂了..原來只是按一下你的名字即可.

另 : 看到Peter and Gordon的 I go to pieces 開心極. 這是我百听不厭的金曲. 尤其是看到今天的Peter and Gordon..歲月不饒人. 真是一點也不錯.

多謝你. Webbburt777君

Oh, typing mistake
My Youtube site is:
http://www.youtube.com/user/burtwebb333

江玲目前復刻出最多原曲的是這張CD嗎?

Dear miklen,

若論江玲的歌曲重版﹐這套 Boxset 收錄的歌曲算最多的了。

鑽石名曲選 - The History Of Diamond Records
上列CD套裝現在可吾知在什麼地方可以購買得到?請指導

Dear lionwong,

若你是香港朋友﹐香港許多CD店都有賣﹐包括HMV﹑CDwarehouse等。若你是海外朋友﹐那麼郵購吧。
http://www.hmv.com.hk/product/canto.asp?sku=637905