Credited on the record as カーン・リー.
美しい昔 [Diễm xưa]
1979 · Columbia LK-126 · Tokyo, Japan
- Artist
- Khánh Ly
- Credited on the record as
- カーン・リー
- Title
- 美しい昔 [Diễm xưa]
- Release
- 美しい昔 / ユエの子守歌 [Diễm xưa / Ca dao mẹ]
- Year
- 1979
- Label
- Columbia # LK-126
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- Vietnamese
- Country
- Tokyo, Japan
- Songwriter
- Trịnh Công Sơn
- Genre
- Vietnamese Music · Nhạc vàng
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation — Japanese Songs
As discussed above, this featured well-known Vietnamese artist, Khánh Ly (also known as カーン・リー in Japanese), born on 6 March 1945, Hà Nội, Vietnam, which included two classic songs, both composed by Trịnh Công Sơn, a prominent Vietnamese songwriter (born 28 February 1939 in Buôn Ma Thuột, Đắk Lắk, Vietnam, died on 1 April 2001, Hồ Chí Minh City, Vietnam). The track titles are "雨に消えたあなた" ("Diem xua") and "ユエの子守歌" ("Ca dao me"). This version was released in Japan for the TV drama "サイゴンから来た妻と娘" ("Wife and Daughter From Saigon") based on a book of the same title - in which a Japanese newspaper reporter is working in Saigon during the Vietnam War. He married a Vietnamese woman, and they move to Japan after the fall of Saigon. (1) (2) Released in 1978.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
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