Looking for a (few) song(s)... Do you recognize these melodies?

[New Egg]

Hey, I'm a Canadian-born Chinese... I'm in a nostalgic mood and am looking for a handful of "greatest hits" Canto songs plus a few I remember from my mom's 80's CD before she lost it. I don't remember any of the lyrics and can only remember the melodies. So I played them on the piano and wrote down the notes.

One has a choris that goes like this:

f-d-g-g---------f---g-c---------d-c-a-a---a#-a#-

Another song starts like this:

g-g-g-g-g---f---d-----------d-f-e-e-e-e-e-d-c---d-----------

Another song has a choris that ends like this:

c2-------g1-------d2-------g1-------e2---f2-g2-f2---e2---e2---d2-c2-d2-------e2---f2-g2-f2---e2---e2---d2-c2-g1-------f1---c2---c2---d2---e2---d2---c2-d2---c2-b1-c2-------

I can't read chinese and wouldn't recognize any titles, so hopefully there's a youtube video out there someone can link to. Any other song suggestions on par with the above would be welcome too!

So far I've found "Shanghai Bund" and Priscilla Chan's "Thousands of songs" =D That's the kind of epic I'm looking for!

[jkhsu]

Are you able to record what you've played on the piano and upload the file?

[New Egg]

I've uploaded a few very short clips:

one song starts like this:

1.mp3

another song has this somewhere in there (i never heard the whole song but the one part sounds promising)

2.mp3

another song has a chorus that starts like this

3.mp3

[zhouhana]

I tried to open the links but it said I don't have permission. Anyway, have you tried http://www.midomi.com/ ? It's great for finding songs, even Chinese ones.

[cababunga]

There are more then a few search engines in existence that specialize on indexing melodies. Google for "melody search engine" and try some of them.

Also, the tunes you uploaded to upload-mp3 are not publicly accessible; you may want to change their permissions.

[New Egg]

I've updated the files, now they're public.

[skylee]

The third one sounds like 壯志驕陽 -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAc2pzswYns

The second one sounds like 只願一生愛一人 -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URzLLsnAIf8

[New Egg]

Thanks!

Though I figured the first one would be more recognizable, cuz I heard it in radio quite a few times in Vancouver couple years ago.

[semantic nuance]

The second one, Mandarin version is 瘐澄慶 (哈林)--讓我一次愛個夠 (Youtube)

[New Egg]

Does anyone know the first one?

http://www.upload-mp3.com/files/317011_2gyik/1.mp3

[skylee]

I would like to help but I can't think of anything similar. Can you tell us more about the song? Was it a male or female singer? Can you remember more of the song (and record it and post it here)? etc.

[New Egg]

Here's a slightly longer version of the last song... the singer is male

5.mp3

Here's another one I'm curious about:

4.mp3

[New Egg]

Anyone?

[jkhsu]

The few people who could probably help you out are already on this thread. As skylee mentioned, it would probably help if you can provide any additional info. You said you can't read Chinese but can you sing any of the lyrics? Try recording those and I am sure someone can recognize them.

[New Egg]

I don't remember the words in the songs, only the melody.

Song "5" might be relatively recent as I've heard it on radio station AM1470 in Vancouver less than 3 years ago... it's a modern song with a traditional instrumental in between verses. Singer is male. I've extended the melody for song "5", so it now includes exactly one verse followed by one chorus:

5.mp3

Song "4" is from the 80's, from the sme CD (that we no longer have - see first post) as songs "3" and "2", so the artist is likely Jacky Cheung as well. Song "4" is also extended to include a verse before the chorus.

4.mp3