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"Below the Lion Rock" (Chinese: 獅子山下) is a Cantopop song by Hong Kong singer Roman Tam. It was composed and arranged by Joseph Koo, with lyrics written by James Wong. It was written and used as the theme song of RTHK's TV show of the same name in 1979. In the 1970s, Cantonese pop songs were starting to gain traction.
During the late 1960s and 1970s, Mandarin pop songs were getting more and more popular and became the mainstream of Hong Kong pop. [6] In the 1970s, Hong Kong audiences wanted popular music in their own dialect, Cantonese. Also, a Cantonese song Tai siu yan yun (啼笑姻緣) became the first theme song of a TV drama.
Samuel Hui Koon-kit [1] [2] (born 6 September 1948), [1] usually known as Sam Hui, [1] [3] is a Hong Kong musician, singer, songwriter and actor. He is credited with popularising Cantopop both via the infusion of Western-style music and his usage of vernacular Cantonese rather than written vernacular Chinese in biting lyrics that addressed contemporary problems and concerns. [4]
Cantopop (a contraction of "Cantonese pop music") is a genre of pop music sung in Cantonese. [1] Cantopop is also used to refer to the cultural context of its production and consumption. [ 2 ] The genre began in the 1970s and became associated with Hong Kong popular music from the middle of the decade. [ 1 ]
This in turn gave way to pop songs recorded in Cantonese as Cantopop became the dominant genre of music from Hong Kong in the 1970s. After the Communist victory in China, the Kuomintang retreated to Taiwan. There were local stars in Taiwan and Pathé Records did business there as well, but the island's recording industry was not initially strong.
In 1970, Lang became an actress in Taiwanese film. Lang appeared as Linda in The Wandering Generation, a 1970 Taiwan film directed by Yang Tun-Ping. In 1974, Lang became an actress in Hong Kong film. Lang was known as Sin Do-Laai (Chinese: 仙杜拉). Lang first appeared in Hong Kong film in Fun, Hong Kong Style, a 1974 Comedy film directed by ...
Koo joined TVB as their director of music in 1973, [7] where from the late 1970s until immigrating to Canada in the 1990s, he collaborated with the lyricist Wong Jim on many memorable TV theme songs. Koo has composed over 1,200 songs in his career, [8] many of which are now considered as classic Cantopop [citation needed]. He only has 2 notable ...
Hong Kong English pop (Chinese: 英文歌) is a genre of music consisting of English-language songs that are made, performed and popularised in Hong Kong. It is known as simply English pop by Hong Kongers. The height of the English pop era in Hong Kong was from the 1950s to mid-1970s. [1]