We have the apple pie up there which means that this is another All-Points Bulletin article, the first one for 2026.
Last September, YouTuber Neff Sang contacted me regarding a few Chinese covers of Japanese songs that he couldn't identify so he asked us for some help. Eventually, most of them were identified. However, he's contacted me in the last couple of days for a song by Cheng Lin（程琳）that was released above in 1983 which can be found at 21:57 of the above video containing the album "Little Conch"（小螺号）. The song title is 「春水湾湾」but he would like to know what the original Japanese song is.
Neff gave me an additional tidbit in that the original song was created by Kunihiko Suzuki（鈴木邦彦）. He's also provided the same song down below albeit under a different arrangement although he's stated that it was also from the same year of 1983. Unfortunately, I couldn't identify the song but if any of you take a listen and can identify it, please let us know.
Since 春水湾湾 is a cover of Japanese song, I wonder what was the reason the original song title was not printed on the album as in 春水湾湾 is a cover of (XYZ song)?
ReplyDeleteIt just wasn't common for this to happen at the time. I have several other cassettes, many with covers of non-Chinese songs, and rarely did they ever print the original album title.
DeleteIt is interesting because it seems that most of these singers at least mention or indicate somewhere that they are covering a Japanese song, but then they do not mention what specific song they are covering?
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