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who sings the male voice in all the connie chan movies

Posted:
Thu Feb 09, 2006 4:25 am
by stooges0
Anyone knows who sings the male to all the songs in all the connie chan movies?
who sings for lui kay?
who sings for wu fung?
who sing for jiang kong?
the voices seems to be different between each songs?
can it be more than 1 male singer? if yes who they are?
thanks

Posted:
Thu Feb 09, 2006 5:12 pm
by duriandave
I'm fairly certain that Lui Kei sings for himself. He's got a pretty distinctive voice. I'm not sure about the others.
Who sings the male voice?

Posted:
Sat Apr 22, 2006 12:00 am
by jenb
Hey Dave,
From the Chinese Chan Bo Chu website they say Lu Kei does not do his old voice. Sure nuf that his voice is distinctiive but someone else actuallly sounds like him.
Sue

Posted:
Sat Apr 22, 2006 12:40 am
by Fan

Posted:
Sat Apr 22, 2006 4:08 am
by duriandave
Thanks for letting us know Sue! And thanks Fan for finding those links! The singer's voice suits Lui Kei so well. I actually quite fond of his nasal, tremelo singing.

Posted:
Sat Apr 22, 2006 3:12 pm
by dleedlee
But what about these LPs with Connie?
http://www.vinylparadise.com/4pop_can/1/013CBC0B.htm
And I've seen back covers of EPs on eBay crediting Lu Kay.
The only current listing I could find:
http://cgi.ebay.com/HONG-KONG-CHAN-PAO- ... otohosting

Posted:
Sat Apr 22, 2006 6:04 pm
by duriandave
Lui Kei is credited on the backs of the EPs that I have, but perhaps it was just to maintain his star image?

Posted:
Sat Apr 22, 2006 7:57 pm
by dleedlee
But...but...that would be wrong...wouldn't it?


Posted:
Sun Apr 23, 2006 3:30 am
by duriandave
According to a recent discussion at the Kungfu Fandom discussion board, at Shaw Brothers each major star had their own personal dubber who sounded like them. Ling Po was an exception and evidently dubbed her own voice up until 14 Amazons. And Chiao Chiao (who played Wang Yu's girlfriend in One-Armed Swordsman) did dubbing in addition to acting.
I also read somewhere that when Julie Yeh Feng moved to Shaw Brothers, they asked someone else to dub her singing voice, so that it wouldn't sound like her. I don't know why. I love her low voice!

Posted:
Sun Apr 23, 2006 1:37 pm
by dleedlee
Yes, I've read that too. Tsin Ting, Carrie Ku Mei, et al regularly dubbed for other stars like Lin Dai, etc in the films....but the Shaws-related LP/EPs released listed the actual singers. That's why I'm a bit confused about the recordings listing Lui Kei.
EMI last year rereleased quite a few of the Shaw films soundtrack albums on CD that I've been meaning to pick up.

Posted:
Sun Apr 23, 2006 1:40 pm
by Fan
Asked a few ladies who are about at Lui Kei's age and/or growing up with movies of those years, about whether he can sing or not. Their first responses are almost the same: No! Then I asked if they had any ideas why records credit his name, they all said: He sings but not too well, so usually there's someone sings for him.


Posted:
Sun Apr 23, 2006 1:58 pm
by dleedlee
Thanks, Fan. I appreciate your digging this up.

Posted:
Sun Apr 23, 2006 2:05 pm
by Fan
dleedlee, you're welcome. They are just friends' elder sisters and...my mom.
