From: william@natimuk.acci.com.au (William Lo)
Subject: Broadway Musical + Lam + extra(Re: LAM is a Legend!) 
Organization: IBM Australia/ACCI
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 05:30:52 GMT

In article <1992Nov4.131213.7164@news.cs.indiana.edu> <juyoung@kiwi.ucs.indiana.edu> writes:
>In article <9230911.8994@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> william@natimuk.acci.com.au (William Lo) writes:
>>>>>    The song is "Grow tiger last stand" from Cats (Act 2) + Wong Tze's
>>>>>     "Far Fay Far" (Flowers are not flowers).
>>>>
>>>>	Sounds like we've got a Broadway Musical fan here :-)
>>>>
>>>         Definitely!
>>>         
>>	Yo! Have you seen 'Phantom of the Opera' on stage? Sadly,
>>I haven't. Sob!
>>
>
>	Yes, I've seen Phantom in Toronto, Cats in Bloomington, IN, and
>	Les Miserables in Phoenix, AZ.  I have most of the musicals written 
	^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	Yaya! I love this one, too(well, but I only have it on CD :-c) 

>	by Andrew Lloyd Webber, plus Les Mis, Chess, Miss Saigon.

	'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat' has been my favourite,
for quite sometime(about 6 months - well, I'm just a Broadway beginner!), and
'Grease'(not the movie), too. Downhere in the Ozland, we were having 'Jesus 
Christ Superstar' just a month back starring a host of Aussie pop singers.
It was quite good! I bought the CD but didn't actually see it live becuz as 
I'd listened to the CD for awhile, I realised the music was too bloody funky! 
I now have 'Phantom', like many guys do, 'Evita', 'Cats', 'Joseph', 'The
Aspects of Love', 'Les Miz' of course, 'J&K', and 'Grease'. I enjoy all of
them, esp. Weber's, 'Phantom' and 'Joseph' are my favourites. I love those
theatre hits of yesteryear...(so-called 'Wai Gau'!(Think Old)) 

>
>	BTW, LAM's "Kwok Kei (Nation Flag)" [1st song in "Cheung Ching Gor 
>	Chap (Evergreen song albumn)] is also originated from the Broadway 
>	musical CHESS - "Anthem" [last song in Act 1].  "I know him so well"
>	and "One night in Bankok" are also from CHESS.
						^^^^^
	I don't have this one, but I'll definitely go find it.
	You're truly an expert!

[...Stuff(about Teresa C.'s whereabouts) deleted...]

>
>>	Becuz that was one of his best albums, IMHO. I like those early-80's 
>>(and of course late-70's) songs best, Lam's new songs take a back-seat to 
>>my favourites! But actually I don't have a lot of those songs right now, so  
>>I'm still trying to find a few of them.  
>>
>
>	If you'd go back to HK again, just ask the record shop to get them
>	for you.  They'll contact the wholesaler/dealer whom you can't contact
>	directly.  That's what I did when I got the "Mor Dun To Lo" for a 
>	friend in 1988.
>
>	However, if you buy the cassette of Lam's *old* albumn, try look 
>	carefully.  EMI had re-published some LAM's cassettes around 1988.
>	They are made in Malaysia and the quality was not as good as the
>	old one published in HK.  Try to get the very original one.  You can
>	tell the different from the "edge" of the "cover" which shows the list
>	of songs.  At the bottom, if you see some words in English (I forgot
>	the words), then the tape is a new one.  But it's hard to get the 
>	exact original one in HK now.  May be it's better than nothing if you
>	can get the one made in Malaysia.  Also, the one made in Malaysia may
>	be in white/ivory plastic box.

	Thanks a lot for your hints on buying old albums in HK. I hope this 
info would help other guys, too.   
	Sounds like you're really concerned about the sound quality. So am I - 
but not very. I'm sure I'd be really happy as long as I have the songs. 
 
>	
>>	Love this one! Becuz "first impressions are lasting"??? I became a fan 
>>of Lam's the first time I heard this song. A pretty sombre song presented with
>>Lam's sombre vocal style(he has many), and I thought he was really crying :-D 
>>
>	Crying?  What do you mean?  Shout or Weep?

	Sob sob sob... :-c now you know what I meant...

>	Well, I remember that LAM cried twice while performing.  The first one
>	that I heard was when he's still in Jade performing in "Kai See" 
>	(Gosh! I don't know the name of that TV station in English.).

	Hmhm :-D
>
>	The second occasion was in his concert in 1983, when he sang the song
>	"Fun Fun Chung Shui Yiu Nei" which was dedicated to Fu Sing (Jenny 
>	Yen's husband).
>

	Which songs of Lam's are your favourites BTW? You don't seem to have mentioned
about??? 'Where are you[for she]?' and 'Every night' are definitely those of mine. 

	Sounds like there are only 2 Lam-heads on this newsgroup...

---Cheers,
	Bill
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