Thoughts in the Night, Dreams During the Day
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夜有所思，日有所夢 Thoughts in the Night, Dreams During the Day is the 11th studio album
of cantopop
singer Prudence Liew
, released in 1994.
with many of Hong Kong's prominent jazz composers contributing to the songs. Because the music strayed from standard cantopop
fare, only one single was released from the album. There are eight Cantonese songs and two original English compositions, one of which is a duet with local jazz musician, Larry Hammond. This album includes two covers, "三十度 ( Thirty Degrees )" is originally the popular song, "The Girl from Ipanema
" while "Love Me" is the cover of the song of the same title
by Bee Gees
.
With the release of this album, Liew fulfilled her contract with Columbia Records
and went on hiatus for several years, emigrating with her children to San Francisco, USA. Her next release would be the mandopop
album, Love Yourself
愛自己, released May 2000 in Taiwan
. Her next cantopop album came 15 years after this release, in October 2009, with The Queen of Hardships
.
The title of this album is a play on words of the classic Chinese saying, "日有所思，夜有所夢", which literally translates to "thoughts during the day, dreams in the night". The interpretation of this saying is that when you think about something enough during the day, you will dream about it at night as well.
Studio album
A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...
of cantopop
Cantopop
Cantopop is a colloquialism for "Cantonese popular music". It is sometimes referred to as HK-pop, short for "Hong Kong popular music". It is categorized as a subgenre of Chinese popular music within C-pop...
singer Prudence Liew
Prudence Liew
Prudence Liew Mei-Gwan is a multi-platinum selling Hong Kong pop singer and Golden Horse Award winning actress, having released 14 studio albums and appearing in numerous films.-Career start:...
, released in 1994.
Background information
In this album, a majority songs are infused with jazz elements, especially bossa novaBossa nova
Bossa nova is a style of Brazilian music. Bossa nova acquired a large following in the 1960s, initially consisting of young musicians and college students...
with many of Hong Kong's prominent jazz composers contributing to the songs. Because the music strayed from standard cantopop
Cantopop
Cantopop is a colloquialism for "Cantonese popular music". It is sometimes referred to as HK-pop, short for "Hong Kong popular music". It is categorized as a subgenre of Chinese popular music within C-pop...
fare, only one single was released from the album. There are eight Cantonese songs and two original English compositions, one of which is a duet with local jazz musician, Larry Hammond. This album includes two covers, "三十度 ( Thirty Degrees )" is originally the popular song, "The Girl from Ipanema
The Girl from Ipanema
"Garota de Ipanema" is a well-known bossa nova song, a worldwide hit in the mid-1960s that won a Grammy for Record of the Year in 1965. It was written in 1962, with music by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Portuguese lyrics by Vinicius de Moraes. English lyrics were written later by Norman Gimbel.The...
" while "Love Me" is the cover of the song of the same title
Love Me (Bee Gees song)
"Love Me" is a Barry and Robin Gibb composition which was an international hit in 1976-77 for Yvonne Elliman."Love Me" was originally recorded by the Gibbs' group the The Bee Gees on their 1976 album Children of the World, the track featuring Robin Gibb on lead with his falsetto evidenced on the...
by Bee Gees
Bee Gees
The Bee Gees are a musical group that originally comprised three brothers: Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The trio was successful for most of their 40-plus years of recording music, but they had two distinct periods of exceptional success: as a pop act in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and as a...
.
With the release of this album, Liew fulfilled her contract with Columbia Records
Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...
and went on hiatus for several years, emigrating with her children to San Francisco, USA. Her next release would be the mandopop
Mandopop
Mandopop is a colloquial abbreviation for "Mandarin popular music." It is categorized as a subgenre of commercial Chinese-language music within C-pop. Mandopop was the first variety of popular music in Chinese to establish itself as a viable industry. As the name implies, Mandopop features songs...
album, Love Yourself
Love Yourself
愛自己 Love Yourself is the first mandopop album and 12th overall studio album of Hong Kong pop singer Prudence Liew, released on May 1, 2000 in Taiwan.-Album information:...
愛自己, released May 2000 in Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
. Her next cantopop album came 15 years after this release, in October 2009, with The Queen of Hardships
The Queen of Hardships
The Queen of Hardships is the 13th studio album by cantopop singer Prudence Liew. This album marks the first Cantonese language studio album release from Liew in 15 years since her 1994 release of 夜有所思，日有所夢 Thoughts in the Night, Dreams During the Day and the first studio album release in 9 years...
.
The title of this album is a play on words of the classic Chinese saying, "日有所思，夜有所夢", which literally translates to "thoughts during the day, dreams in the night". The interpretation of this saying is that when you think about something enough during the day, you will dream about it at night as well.
Track listing
- 陪我 ( Stay with Me )
- Just Hold On
- 不願等﹐也… ( Don't Want to Wait, Still... )
- 糊塗族人 ( Silly Tribesmen )
- Yours Forever
- 情不死 ( Love Does Not Die )
- 消耗生命 ( Burning Life )
- 三十度 ( Thirty Degrees )
- Love MeLove Me (Bee Gees song)"Love Me" is a Barry and Robin Gibb composition which was an international hit in 1976-77 for Yvonne Elliman."Love Me" was originally recorded by the Gibbs' group the The Bee Gees on their 1976 album Children of the World, the track featuring Robin Gibb on lead with his falsetto evidenced on the...
- Whispers Of The Soul duet with Larry Hammond