Zhang Baomo cursed Xu Jingqing on the second day of the lunar new year because of "Dare to ask where the road is". It was originally a song tailored for Li Shuangjiang , but Jiang Dawei picked up the leak...
CCTV's 86 version of " Journey to the West " theme song "Dare to ask where is the road" is a wonderful song that everyone is familiar with The song is written by Yan Su and composed by Xu Jingqing. Everyone has seen and heard this song in the TV series. Jiang Dawei is the most familiar. In fact, this song was first sung by Zhang Baomo, and later replaced by a male voice. It was tailored for Li Shuangjiang, not Jiang Dawei.
Composer Xu Jingqing
Composer Xu Jingqing has been trying to figure out how to make this song better after receiving Yan Su's lyrics.
One day in the winter of 1983, Xu Jingqing was sitting on the bus, looking at the snowflakes falling outside the window, and when he passed the zoo area, he saw the bustling pedestrians on the road. There were so many small businessmen and hawkers carrying the burdens. Xu Jingqing had mixed feelings in an instant, thinking of the pain of his life's struggles appearing like a movie. Spring, autumn, winter and summer, a lot of ups and downs." These two melody. He was moved by his own melody, and quickly got out of the car. There was no pen or paper in his pocket. He only took out a box of Peony cigarettes, and there was a cigarette in it. He didn't care much, he tore open the cigarette case , borrowed a pencil from a child passing by, leaned on the telephone pole, and wrote these two moving melodies on the cigarette case. Back in the office, he wrote the first sentence "You carry the burden, I lead the horse" on the desk, and it took him just over half an hour to successfully complete the entire song. When the song was finished, music editor Wang Wenhua approached Xu Jingqing and said that "Dare to Ask Where Is The Way" could not be used as the theme song, but only as the ending song. Because another famous composer was invited to compose an opening song, and the creation of the opening song was more imposing. The famous singer Wu Yanze was selected to sing the opening song, so it was no longer possible to sing in a male voice, and only girls could sing it. So, Xu Jingqing thought of Zhang Baomo. Zhang Baomo is a mezzo-soprano, between popular and bel canto, and her singing is also very distinctive. Xu Jingqing had never seen Zhang Baomo before, so she tried every means to get her call and asked Zhang Baomo to sing this song.
The draft
formed score on the cigarette case When
recorded this song, Xu Jingqing felt very excited, but the members of the band did not respond. After the recording was over, everyone walked away with the five-yuan recording fee they deserved, and no one praised the song. When Zhang Baomo came out of the recording studio, she was very excited and said to Xu Jingqing, "Mr. Xu, this song is great, I like it very much. Can I sing this song in future performances?" Xu Jingqing agreed. "Can". Even the singers thought the song was good, and Xu Jingqing was very happy. The finished product of
singer Zhang Baomo
was handed over to director Yang Jie , and she also gave a high evaluation after listening to it. In the Spring Festival of 1986, Zhang Baomo's version of "Dare to Ask Where is the Road" was broadcast with the TV series. In the past two years, the play has been broadcast on and off CCTV for 11 episodes, which has been warmly welcomed by the audience. But the response to the music has been mixed. The leaders of its CCTV and some experts believe that the popular singing style of "Dare to Ask Where is " is too soft and too lyrical to be replaced. In order to meet the needs of all aspects, Director Yang Jie told Xu Jingqing the feedback of "Dare to Ask Where is the Way", and asked to change the male voice to sing, but Xu Jingqing could only do so, because Xu Jingqing had worked with Li Shuangjiang before, and his voice was great , The emotion is also in place, and I am going to invite Li Shuangjiang to sing this song. Unexpectedly, before the recording, Li Shuangjiang told Xu Jingqing that there was a problem with his throat. If he waited for his recovery to come back to the recording, at least until the end of the year, he had no choice but to give up.
Li Shuangjiang
Later, by chance, Xu Jingqing met Jiang Dawei in the recording studio. He was recording the theme song for another TV series, which happened to borrow the recording time of "Journey to the West". Due to some understanding of his situation, Xu Jingqing felt that Jiang Dawei could be invited to sing, and Director Yang Jie agreed. In the gap between the recording studios, Xu Jingqing gave the sheet music to Jiang Dawei, Jiang Dawei took the sheet music, hummed it briefly, and said, "This song is my girlfriend.Girls can sing, but I can’t sing”.
Jiang Dawei
After two recordings, Jiang Dawei’s version of Dare to Ask Where Is The Way sings masculinity with the strength of a man.
Xu Jingqing and director Yang Jie
On the first day of the Chinese New Year in 1988, "Journey to the West" was launched, and the re-recorded version of "Dare to Ask Where Is The Way" by Jiang Dawei was well received by the audience, but it made Zhang Baomo's boss unhappy. That night, Zhang Baomo called at more than ten o'clock and scolded Xu Jingqing, but the change was not the composer's opinion, and even the director Yang Jie was helpless. Xu Jingqing could only swallow his teeth.
Later, with the broadcast of the TV series, "Dare to Ask Where is the Road" sang the land of China.
Xu Jingqing wrote an inscription
for the author of this article, Lao Jin-
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