Samantha Lam
1. The last time I listened to A Chance Encounter ("偶遇") was over twenty years ago.
When I listened to it recently in YouTube, the tempo of this song seems slow.
Yet when listening to it a second time, I realized it had to be slow.
The emotions and feelings expressed by the lyrics dictated that the tempo of this song has to be slow.
The song expresses the feelings and moods of a young girl in love.
2. A Chance Encounter was the theme song of the 1984 Hong Kong movie A Certain Romance.
This song won many awards including the Best Original Song in the 1985 Hong Kong Film Awards.
The original singer, Samantha Lam, was active in Cantopop mostly from the early to late 1980s.
Unlike some artists who were into many areas of the performing arts, Samantha Lam only sang.
But she has also composed some songs and lyrics of her own.
3. A Chance Encounter (1984) by Samantha Lam.
This music video consists of scenes from A Certain Romance (1984):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW6AQrJDsFE
Music videos from 1984 / 1985:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZZwD_HkTmw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPaGvg1-rQ0
These are just the song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ-GQKF5N_Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxUCxN_8Oic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm6mSy-evyY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYvJ_q9nb3g
4. The Hong Kong singer Sammi Cheng:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8Wz4KWqR4E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXHMEXmgtkg
5. CoCo Lee is a Chinese American born in Hong Kong:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8Q2H--Dy3U
First of three songs.
6. Mag Lam of Hong Kong in 2010:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuXfi7PBHSY
She did not seem to interpret this song right.
7. The Taiwanese singer MENG Ting-Wei singing in Mandarin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVrfnWkfocw
8. The Taiwanese singer Michelle Pan singing in Mandarin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOb1TMfk6Rk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv7pPALUauc
9. Lily Chan is from mainland China:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW8HNE8mPJ8
I enjoy the violin portion of the video very much.
10. A rare male singing of the song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLYusQ0aCsg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bov2aBCJc6Q
11. A piano cover:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyuYj6lpWhQ
Permit me a minor criticism.
The uploader translates the song title as "Serendipity".
Serendipity has a positive connotation that seems wrong for this song with its underlying moods of love-worries and uncertainity.
12. Other piano covers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsHrJr45xZA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUtQUwPzIkI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLAhKcqWc2E
13. The Lyrics in Traditional Chinese:
偶遇 -- 林志美
* 風 帶著微笑輕吹 天空裡雲偶遇
難忘是當天你 那默然的相醉
# 心 印下微笑的影 天天去回味
迷人是一剎那 再回頭已是沒法追
@ 看著看著你 來來去去
彷似彷似彩雲散聚
哪日才可 哪日才許 再共你相遇
& 要是以後有緣能見你
今天一切都成往事
會是如歌 會是如詩
怕沒法遇
Repeat: *, #, @, &
14. The Lyrics in Simplified Chinese:
偶遇 -- 林志美
* 風 帶著微笑輕吹 天空裡雲偶遇
難忘是當天你 那默然的相醉
# 心 印下微笑的影 天天去回味
迷人是一剎那 再回頭已是沒法追
@ 看著看著你 來來去去
彷似彷似彩雲散聚
哪日才可 哪日才許 再共你相遇
& 要是以後有緣能見你
今天一切都成往事
會是如歌 會是如詩
怕沒法遇
Repeat: *, #, @, &
15. Names, Words and Phrases:
A Certain Romance (Traditional Chinese: 少女日記; Simplified Chinese: 少女日記).
Best Original Song (Traditional: 最佳原創電影歌曲; Simplified: 最佳原创电影歌曲).
CoCo Lee (Traditional: 李玟; Simplified: 李玟).
Hong Kong Film Awards (Traditional: 香港電影金像獎; Simplified: 香港电影金像奖).
Lily Chan (Traditional: 陳潔麗; Simplified: 陈洁丽).
Mag Lam (Traditional: 林欣彤; Simplified: 林欣彤).
Meng Ting-Wei (Traditional: 孟庭葦; Simplified: 孟庭苇).
Michelle Pan (Traditional: 潘越雲, Simplified: 潘越云).
Samantha Lam (Traditional: 林志美; Simplified: 林志美).
Sammi Cheng (Traditional: 鄭秀文; Simplified: 郑秀文).
References:
"Samantha Lam (singer)", Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Lam_%28singer%29
(accessed 2013-10-19).
"林志美", Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia,
http://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-hk/%E6%9E%97%E5%BF%97%E7%BE%8E
(accessed 2013-10-19).
"少女日記", Hong Kong Movie Database,
http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=6626&display_set=big5
(accessed 2013-10-19).
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