zhou xuan -- song of the four seasons

I just got a collection of songs by the fabulous and (in China) ultra-famous singer Zhou Xuan. Here's an example of her singing "Song of the Four Seasons" (hopefully hearing it will tempt you to seek out and listen to more!):



There's some info about here here at the wikipedia site.

And to give credit where credit is due: I had never heard of Zhou until I saw the film Electric Shadows (which, by the way, is the literal reading of the Chinese characters for the word 'movie(s)' which looks like 电影 / 電影).

méigui méigui wǒ ài nǐ (rose, rose, i love you)

I got turned on to this tune years ago as it featured prominently in Peter Greenaway's 1996 film The Pillow Book. The tune was recorded in 1940 by Yao Lee. The title does mean "Rose, Rose, I love you," and the Mandarin always sounded to me like make way, make way. The Chinese characters are 玫瑰玫瑰我愛你.



Doesn't the pianist (right around 1:56) almost quote Mozart in his solo??? Very cool...

Also, there's the lyrics in Chinese characters and some info about this song on this site.