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They performed in the 1971 Hong Kong Festival and were regularly as featured artist in the Hong Kong TVB variety TV show, Enjoy Yourself Tonight, in the early 1970s. Stephen Lam was a troubadour solo artist in the Hong Kong club scene singing cover tunes by Simon and Garfunkel, Bob Dylan, James Taylor, Cat Stevens, the Eagles & the Beatles.
During the late 1960s and 1970s, Mandarin pop songs were getting more and more popular and became the mainstream of Hong Kong pop. [6] In the 1970s, Hong Kong audiences wanted popular music in their own dialect, Cantonese. Also, a Cantonese song Tai siu yan yun (啼笑姻緣) became the first theme song of a TV drama.
These, along with the show's opening theme song (a cover version of the chorus to "Enjoy Yourself (It's Later than You Think)" in Cantonese), have since attained iconic status within the popular culture of Hong Kong. Many Hong Kong English bands and singers performed on EYT during the 1970s, such as Agnes Chan, The Young Men and the Lotus.
Hong Kong English pop (Chinese: 英文歌) is a genre of music consisting of English-language songs that are made, performed and popularised in Hong Kong. It is known as simply English pop by Hong Kongers. The height of the English pop era in Hong Kong was from the 1950s to mid-1970s. [1]
"Below the Lion Rock" (Chinese: 獅子山下) is a Cantopop song by Hong Kong singer Roman Tam. It was composed and arranged by Joseph Koo, with lyrics written by James Wong. It was written and used as the theme song of RTHK's TV show of the same name in 1979. In the 1970s, Cantonese pop songs were starting to gain traction.
The Hong Kong government introduced six years of free compulsory education in 1971, and expanded it to nine years in 1978. [4] Companies were also seeking well educated employees for complex projects. Seventy-two percent of overseas graduates between 1962 and 1976 would come back to Hong Kong to take on highly skilled domestic positions. [5]
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Luk Siu-Fung is an album released by Crown Records (娛樂) in 1976. Adam Cheng records most of the songs; Teresa Cheung sings tracks 3, 5, and 6. Side one contains theme songs from the television series.