who sings the male voice in all the connie chan movies

[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

[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.

[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

[Fan]

Some search results:

Connie Chan said Lui Kei can't sing:
http://music.ent.tom.com/1026/1027/20031026-26132.html

靳永堂 did the singing for Lui Kei:
http://home.so-net.net.tw/likitchun/memo.htm

[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.

[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

[duriandave]

Lui Kei is credited on the backs of the EPs that I have, but perhaps it was just to maintain his star image?

[dleedlee]

But...but...that would be wrong...wouldn't it?

[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!

[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.

[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.

[dleedlee]

Thanks, Fan. I appreciate your digging this up.

[Fan]

dleedlee, you're welcome. They are just friends' elder sisters and...my mom.