Credited on the record as カーン・リー.
美しい昔 [Diễm xưa]
1979 · Columbia LK-126 · Tokyo, Japan
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- Artist
- Khánh Ly
- Credited on the record as
- カーン・リー
- Title
- 美しい昔 [Diễm xưa]
- Release
- 美しい昔 / ユエの子守唄 [Diễm xưa / Ca dao mẹ]
- Year
- 1979
- Label
- Columbia # LK-126
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- Japanese / Vietnamese
- Country
- Tokyo, Japan
- Songwriter
- Trịnh Công Sơn
- Genre
- Vietnamese Music · Nhạc vàng
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation — Japanese Songs
As discussed above, this featured well-known Vietnamese artist, Khánh Ly (also known as カーン・リー in Japanese), born on 6 March 1945, Hà Nội, Vietnam, which included two classic songs, both composed by Trịnh Công Sơn, a prominent Vietnamese songwriter (born 28 February 1939 in Buôn Ma Thuột, Đắk Lắk, Vietnam, died on 1 April 2001, Hồ Chí Minh City, Vietnam). The track titles are "雨に消えたあなた" ("Diem xua") and "ユエの子守歌" ("Ca dao me"). This version was released in Japan for the TV drama "サイゴンから来た妻と娘" ("Wife and Daughter From Saigon") based on a book of the same title - in which a Japanese newspaper reporter is working in Saigon during the Vietnam War. He married a Vietnamese woman, and they move to Japan after the fall of Saigon.12 Released in 1978.Sources1nhk.or.jp↩2Wikipedia: サイゴンから来た妻と娘↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: This afternoon it is still raining – why don't you come? If tomorrow we are lost in pain, how will we have each other? __________ Vietnamese: Chiều nay còn mưa sao em không lại Nhỡ mai trong cơn đau vùi, làm sao có nhau
Notes
Columbia LK-126 (LK-126-A / LK-126-B), stereo, 45, ℗ '79·12, JASRAC, "Made in Japan by Nippon Columbia Co., Ltd."; both songs are "トリン・コン・ソン作詩・作曲" with guitar by 福本憲 and the コロムビア・オーケストラ: side 1 "美しい昔" (DIEM XUA), Japanese words 高階真, 2:47; side 2 "ユエの子守唄" (CA DAO ME), Japanese words 浅川しげる, 3:01. Sleeve and side-1 label carry the line "NHKドラマ人間模様「サイゴンから来た妻と娘」から" (from the NHK drama series "The Wife and Daughter Who Came from Saigon"); the front shows a smiling man in a white suit with a woman and a girl, and the back a photograph of カーン・リー holding a flower, a melody score of "美しい昔", and the Japanese lyrics of both songs, with Vietnamese lines of "Diễm xưa" printed in handwriting. ¥600; Nippon Columbia company sleeve. The lyrics recall a lost love who has disappeared into the rain at the edge of the world, leaving the singer longing for her. [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
Born 6 March 1945, Hà Nội, Vietnam. Vietnamese singer, the principal interpreter of Trịnh Công Sơn's songs, later based in California. [Source: Rate Your Music]