7 comments:

Favorites In Original said...

This is such a cool song, although I think Lam's version is much better than the english version, the lyrics is just as playful, but it is more polished in the arrangement and singing.

April 28, 2011 at 11:02 AM  

Griffin said...

Original should be: Jimmy Soul - If You Wanna Be Happy 1963
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NF5XU-k2Vk
http://www.4shared.com/get/tOYlkssC/1963_-_Jimmy_Soul_-_If_you_wan.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_You_Wanna_Be_Happy

Max Woiski Jr - Je Bent Nog Niet Gelukkig (Met Een Mooie Vrouw)
Dutch for "You Are Still Not Happy (With A Beautiful Woman)"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4D1oaNs3cU

The Skatalites - If You Wanna Be Happy (For The Rest Of Your Life)
http://www.4shared.com/audio/MNdX0UYS/Oldies_-_The_Skatalites_-_If_Y.htm

Listened to many covers/versions still like Ah Lam/George's
the most! Not one was with the intro as his! So Danny Chung did a great job!

林子祥 ~ 丫嗚婆
作詞： 林振強　
作曲： Guida/Royster　
編曲： 鐘定一

April 28, 2011 at 11:53 PM  

Griffin said...

You haven't corrected/added the true original.

May 2, 2011 at 12:13 AM  

Favorites In Original said...

Griffin, here are the answers to all your queries:

In due time, things such as typo, file replacement will all be updated, I haven't even had a chance to finish all the May Posts yet, I don't think we want this blog to run out of post, right? ;) So, please be patient with me.

As far as the "inspired by" version goes, it's really your area, for me, I think your comment is sufficient, unless I mis-read your comment that Rosemary Clooney wasn't the original.

I can play both Grasshopper and Calloway. If you and anyone who is using IE, please be aware that in the windows vista and windows 7 OS, it usually comes with two IEs (one 32-bits, one 64-bits), the 64-bits IE is not fully supported by everyone yet, so if you encountered problem starting the music player, try with the 32 bits IE instead.

May 2, 2011 at 1:17 AM  

Griffin said...

Original should be: Jimmy Soul - If You Wanna Be Happy 1963, and not Kid Creole & The Coconuts - If You Want To Be Happy

This is also the inspired-by as it's the same length. Kid's is much shorter.

Rosemary was the original song. But Paula was re-doing another's Mandarin version instead of covering the original.

Keep up the good work ;P I'll send you a better bitrate version of Calloway from Sony's Originals-CD.

May 2, 2011 at 1:54 AM  

Favorites In Original said...

Thanks to Griffin, the original track of 林子祥 - 丫鳴婆 has been updated and added: Jimmy Soul - If You Wanna Be Happy

Also uploaded Chicago - Heart In Pieces (GL Edit)

Note to Griffin: I know you have also sent me a number of enhanced and/or higher kbps tracks. I plan on not updating those, I hope you don't mind, since it will involve a lot of uploading and I need to replace code for every embedded player for them too, which I don't really have the time to do at the moment. In fact, some tracks I intentionally converted them from higher Kbps to 128Kbps to reduce size before I posted, it is kind of silly to replace them with a higher Kbps file now. Unless the current files are below standards (such as 64 Kbps or 96 Kbps), those ripped from youtube or xiami, then I would like to replace them if I can (or more exactly if I remember. I don't keep tracks of them really.)

Anyway, thought I would let you know the reasoning why I don't upload the other files, so you don't think I just ignore them.

June 19, 2011 at 11:51 PM  

Griffin said...

No problem ;) I totally understood your "lack of time" situation! I just thought you would like to keep the enhanced files (vinyl-trimmed/corrupted) or better ones I've found while googling/ commenting on your posts! I'm your QC (quality controller) hahaha.

I have lots of catching up to do, no time for minding unpost/re-post! ;p

Just hope you'll read & update spreadsheet with the new found originals/alternate covers with every posts! So my works won't go to the drain ;(

June 25, 2011 at 11:11 PM  

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