japanese influence...

as i mentioned earlier on in the Shinji Tanimura post...alot of
jap music was used to make songs in the 80s...well into the
90s it was still more or less the same...Hideaki Tokunaga(德永英明)
was another jap guy whose music was covered heavily...His debut
single Rainy Blue in 1986 was covered by Jacky Cheung (蓝雨)..
it produce the biggest hit in jacky's 2nd album in tat same year..
Rainy Blue by Hideaki Tokunaga

Rainy Blue (Jap) Composer/Lyrics:Hideaki Tokunaga
©Universal Music Group JPN 1986

Tokunaga's later works were covered by many other HK n TW artists
like Alan Tam,陈晓东,迪克牛仔,王杰 and many more..

oh..i'll definitely hav to mention Keisuke Kuwata(桑田佳佑)...
he probably defined Asian music in the 90s...and again jacky
cheung took one of his best works Manatsu no Kajitsu(theme song
of Kuwata's own 1991 film Inamura Jane) and turned it into
每天爱你多一些.Kuwata's original version was really pop in
jpn but jacky sent it into outer space wif his rendition...
tis song actually revived jacky's career...
Manatsu no Kajitsu by Keisuke Kuwata & Southern All Stars

Manatsu no Kajitsu (Jap) Composer/Lyrics:Keisuke Kuwata
©Victor JVC Records JPN 1991

the next year..jacky took another Kuwata song and made it
into 真情流露...now tis song didnt peaked like 每天爱你多一些...
but..many many years later...sum KOREAN guy covered it as
the theme song for 2001 SBS korean drama PIANO...i watched
it in 2002 and i tot it was the only watchable Korean drama
to date..mainly coz of Jo Jae-Hyun(赵在玄)..the baddie uncle
in the drama tat tried to turn gd...his actin was great in Piano.
in his dying scenes in Piano... he was reachin Chow Yun-Fat's
performance in the 1980 TVB drama The Bund(上海滩)...
Now as i was watchin Piano..it was catchin fire in Taiwan
as the K-drama to watch..So much so they did a mandarin
version of the theme song...rookie 范逸臣 covered it and
got famous...talk abt recycling for the environment..lol..

Piano 曲:桑田佳佑 词:许常德 ©Forward Records Taiwan 2002


pls change ur encoding to unicode(utf-8) if u cant see the mandarin characters..
view->encoding->unicode(utf-8)