Yao Su Yong – My Coffee
Qing Shan – Desert Love
Yao Su Yong – Extremely
Ran into this album, along with a few others from China, at the Beat Swap Meet. The dealer wasn’t one that I was particularly familiar with and the albums weren’t priced particularly high. As more than a few posts on this blog can attest to, I am a big fan of funky music from around the world, and while I could translate anything on these records, the fact that one (perhaps I’ll post it at a later date) featured a young woman with a guitar and the band name, “Yao Su Yong & the Telstars Combo” I knew this had to at least be from the mid-1960s or later. Sure enough when I got home and dropped the need on each record there was definitely some groovy things going on.
From there I did some digital sleuthing to figure out that this was a collection of songs from the same artist of the other record I had gotten, Yao Su Yong, a major star in later 1960s Hong Kong, as well as the male artist Qing Shan. There have been a few copies of the other Yong album, selling for a lot more than I paid for it, but I didn’t see much online about this album, a collection of “hits” from both artists, so I decided to share this one first. With the powers of Google Translate I was able to get the English versions of the titles (or at least what the internets tells me are the English titles) and now we can all dig these sounds together. I dig Yong’s side of music better, but Qing Shan’s “Desert Love” is one of the grooviest things I’ve heard all year.
Cheers,
MIchael