Waiting for Your Return: A Shidaiqu Anthology 1927-1952, Pt. I, by Various Artists

Waiting for Your Return: A Shidaiqu Anthology 1927-1952, Pt. I

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UnoMundo Loving these tunes. Hearing the Language takes me back to early 1980's, when it was quite rare for a Gwai Lo to work front of house in a Chinese restaurant 😍

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1.	Li Minghui - The Drizzle 02:50	buy track
2.	Zhang Fan - Fly All Over the Field 02:47	buy track
3.	Li Li-Hua & Yan Hua - A Thousand Birds Facing the Phoenix 03:09	buy track
4.	Zhou Xuan - Age of Bloom 03:03	buy track
5.	Bai Guang - Waiting for Your Return 02:57	buy track
6.	Wu Yingyin - The Moonlight Sends My Lovesickness Across a Thousand Miles 02:53	buy track
7.	Wang Renmei - Song Of The Fishermen 03:00	buy track
8.	Yao Lee & Yao Min - Congratulations, Congratulations 02:47	buy track
9.	Bai Hong - Suzhou Nocturne 02:46	buy track
10.	Zhou Xuan & Han Langen - Mahjong Classic 02:43	buy track
11.	Yao Lee - Lovesick Tears 03:05	buy track
12.	Gong Qiuxia - The Girl by the Autumn Water 02:34	buy track
13.	Yuan Meiyun - The Most Beautiful Boy 02:53	buy track
14.	Zhou Xuan & Yan Hua - New Life of Love 03:08	buy track
15.	Yao Lee & Yao Min - Oh, Susan 03:05	buy track
16.	Du Jie - Chinese New Year Song 03:51	buy track
17.	Zhang Jing, Zhou Xuan & Li Mingjian - Bells 03:00	buy track
18.	Qu Yunyun - Simple Life 02:30	buy track
19.	Liu Qi - Tired of Dancing 03:25	buy track
20.	Bai Guang - Expectation 03:10	buy track

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Shidaiqu literally means “songs of the era”, a term used to describe a hybrid musical genre that first began permeating through the cosmopolitan city of Shanghai in the late 1920s. Blending western pop, jazz, blues and Hollywood-inspired film soundtracks with traditional Chinese elements, the shidaiqu represented a musical and cultural merging that would go on to shape a golden age of Chinese popular song & film in the pre-communism interwar period.

Waiting for Your Return brings together a wide collection of recordings for an anthological overview of the style. Taking in it's early beginnings in the work of the pioneering composer Li Jinhui - whose 1927 song "Drizzle", featuring the vocals of his daughter Li Minghui, is often referred to as the first shidaiqu record - through to more polished 1930s & 40s examples, when China's western-influenced popular music & movie industry reached it's golden age with the prevalence of the Seven Great Singing Stars (Bai Hong, Bai Guang, Gong Qiuxia, Li Xianglan, Wu Yingyin, Yao Lee and perhaps most prolific of all, Zhou Xuan).

Included in the collection are tracks recorded right up until the music's demise in Shanghai in the early 1950s - during which time the Chinese Communist Party denounced shidaiqu as "yellow music", outlawed nightclubs and pop music production, and destroyed western-style instruments - following which, much of these singers would decamp to Hong Kong where many saw further success throughout the 1950s and into the 1960s.

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released February 1, 2023

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