In 1981, Alan Tam returned home with the aura of "Golden Horse Movie King".
has shown great interest in the movie and music industry for the return of the movie king. New Art City immediately signed a contract with him and started filming a new film; PolyGram, in order to prevent him from being pried away by others, immediately put the new album on the agenda.
At that time, the two big brothers of PolyGram, Xu Guanjie and Guan Zhengjie, known as the "double masters," their market share was declining year by year, so there was an urgent need for a newcomer to take the position to reverse the performance, and Alan Tan was definitely a suitable candidate-Chang's beautiful , Good singing skills, good popularity, strong skill in making girls, and engaging in basic skills. In a word, those who can sing are not as good as acting, those who can sing are not as good as he is, and those who can sing and act are not as good as playing football.
Therefore, PolyGram has made every effort to produce Alan Tam's new album, especially the choice of the title song, but none of them are satisfactory. At the time when the mountain was resurrected, the album leader Guan Weilin suddenly thought that he had listened to a Japanese song not long ago, called "Lover よ", and the singer was Toyo Mayumi Gowa. According to Guan Weilin's recollection, when he heard this song for the first time, he was shocked and almost incontinent. Of course, the original words are not like this, the original words are "using the nose" and the song will be red. What a powerful nose!
Guan Weilin quickly found someone to refill the lyrics and showed Alan Tan. Alan Tan, who was skiing in Japan, sang on the spot, and suddenly snow flew on the top of the mountain, the noise was rumbling, and almost an avalanche occurred. Allen was very satisfied. In this way, the title song was fixed and the album title was also given, which was his third Cantonese album "I Cannot Forget You" released in 1981.
When Alan Tam officially recorded this song, there was still a story: He used to record songs very easily, up to five or six in a day, but when he recorded "I Can’t Forget You", I couldn’t find the feeling. From two o’clock in the afternoon. It was not successful at six o'clock. Angrily, Alan Tan bought a bottle of brandy to relieve his depression, poured half a bottle of "Gu Gu Gu", and then recorded again. Unexpectedly, he was half drunk like a divine helper, and it was OK after only recording twice. No wonder we listen to this song now that it is "slightly addictive", the secret is here. Maybe Alan Tam still has many songs recorded drunk, just wait for us to taste it slowly.
It is said that there were 5 versions of this song in Hong Kong that year. Both Xu Xiaofeng and Cai Fenghua were singing, indicating that everyone's "nose" is not bad, but only Alan Tan's version is the most popular. "I Can't Forget You" finally achieved 4 platinum sales, establishing Alan Tam's status in the music scene in one fell swoop. Aside from the results, I think the biggest significance of the album is that Alan Tam has since found the direction of future song development, which is the affectionate slow song, which is what we call the "lun-style love song". It can be said that it was Alan Tam who created another genre-"Urban Love Songs" among the many ghost horse songs, Cantonese minors, and film and television soundtracks in Hong Kong at that time, which redefined the standard of Cantonese pop music. Later it became the mainstream of Hong Kong and even Chinese songs. Therefore, Alan Tam's status in the arena is so great, not to mention his singing, creation, output and quality are the top singers, "Supreme" and "No.1" are absolutely veritable.
Since "I Can't Forget You", Alan Tam has adapted several songs by Mayumi Mayumi, which are equally popular. When other people saw, "Oh, I'll go", they immediately followed suit. For a while, Mayumi Mayumi's works were bought out of stock by Hong Kong people. Don’t be afraid of being out of stock. There are so many Japanese singers, it’s an inexhaustible treasure. As a result, the Oriental style permeated the Hong Kong music scene and became the main source of Cantonese songs.
This point highlights the power of Alan Tam as a role model, but it has also caused harm to Hong Kong original music. The merits and demerits are questionable.
In 1982 and 1983, Alan Tam released two platinum records-"Lover Goddess" and "Spring... Late Spring", especially the latter one, which reached five platinum, the title song of the same name even dominated the radio station that year The top ten golden songs, the top ten Chinese golden tunes of Radio Hong Kong, and the commercial radio golden tunes were all in the limelight.
However, these are nothing. The real spring of Alan Tam will arrive in 1984, one year later.
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