The real original singer of Camelot

The real original singer of "Camel Bell" is Wu Zeng Hua.

"Camel Bell" is a song composed by Wang Liping and sung by Wu Zenghua, and was the theme song of the 1980 film "The Handcuffed Passenger". in December 2012, it was selected as one of the finalists for the "33 Years of Echoes - 100 Golden Songs in Mainland Pop Music 1979-2011". In December 2012, the song was selected as one of the "33 Years of Echo - 100 Golden Songs of Mainland Pop Music".

The lyrics have a refined and meaningful literary language with a profound meaning, and the musical language is novel and unique. The last two lines of the second verse of the lyrics are even more clear: "A long and arduous road, sprinkled with camel bells all the way". The song vividly expresses the sincere comradeship, comradeship and brotherhood.

At the same time, the song does not simply sing about the friendship between comrades, but uses a rough, mournful singing voice to express the care for comrades in the form of repeated exhortations, but the pain of not being able to show it.

Background

One day in 1980, Yu Yang, the director of the movie "The Handcuffed Passenger", made a phone call to Wang Liping, asking him if he was willing to produce music for his own movie, saying that if he wrote the song, Wang Liping would open the door to feature film music composition, and that he would only be allowed to succeed in his endeavors.

Though it was a joke, Wang Liping still felt the weight of it. But once he read the script, Wang Liping was a little bit of a dilemma. At that time, the fashionable pop singing was in the ascendant, but the characters and subject matter of the movie determined that its music could not be foreign, could not follow the trend.

The crew was in a small place in Yunnan, and Wang Liping had to take a bus for 5 days and 5 nights from Yunnan to the place where the crew was located, and "Camel Bells" was created in these 5 days, and he used the traditional pipa and erhu. When he arrived in Kunming, Wang Liping sang the created "Camel Bell" to everyone and talked about his understanding of "Camel Bell" until everyone was in tears.