Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Shanghai Lounge Divas Vol. 1

In 2003 the global music company EMI was clearing out an old warehouse in Mumbai, India in preparation for its demolition. EMI had been there since the 1920s when it manufactured and distributed records under the Pathe label. In the warehouse, workmen unearthed a trunk with Chinese writing on it and inside were the mother shells of about 800 songs from the thirties and forties. These were the reels used to press the stamper that produced the old vinyl 78s [...] Music as unique as the city in its golden era, a mixture of Eastern and Western influences, blues, jazz, traditional Chinese opera and folk music. Read more


Shanghai Lounge Divas, CD1 - The Remixes
320kbps, 150 mb
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1. Plum Blossom – Li Xiang-lan
2. Waiting 4 U – Bai Kwong
3. If Only… - Li Xiang-lan
4. Stop Singing – Chow Hsuan
5. The Pretender – Bai Kwong
6. All the Stars in the Sky – Chang Loo
7. This Love is Not for Me – Yao Lee
8. Listen Up – Bai Hong
9. Autumn Evening – Bai Kwong
10. The Wandering Songstress – Chow Hsuan
11. The Plough Song – Chang Loo
12. Ye Shanghai – Chow Hsuan

Shanghai Lounge Divas, CD2 - The Originals
320 kbps, 160 mb
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1. Plum Blossom – Li Xiang-lan
2. Waiting 4 U – Bai Kwong
3. If Only… - Li Xiang-lan
4. Stop Singing - Chow Hsuan
5. The Pretender – Bai Kwong
6. All the Stars in the Sky – Chang Loo
7. This Love is Not for Me – Yao Lee
8. Listen Up – Bai Hong
9. Autumn Evening – Bai Kwong
10. The Wandering Songstress – Chow Hsuan
11. The Plough Song – Chang Loo
12. Ye Shanghai 2003 – Chow Hsuan
13. Longing for You – Gong Chio-xia
14. Lingering Love – Man Ping
15. Shangri-La – OuYoung Fei-ying
16. Shanghai Miss – Zhang Yi-wen
17. Love that’s Gone – Gu Ying
18. Song of the Fisherman – Wang Ren-mei
19. Harmonious Couple - Lang Yu-xiu
20. Hundred Birds – Li Li-hua/Yan Hua
21. Fallen Petals – Lu Min
22. Heavenly Spring Dream – Lu Ming
23. The Blossom Youth - Chow Hsuan
24. The Night Is Too Beautiful To Last – Pei Ni

40 comments:

  1. I can't tell you how much I love this!

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  2. Ange,
    Thanks for your comment and thanks for linking to my blog too. I am glad you found something worth your time.
    Mike

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  3. Seems you're in mistake about the info, because you're mixing two different albums, Shanghai Lounge Divas Volume 1 and 2; they aren't both the same thing, nor the same songs neither the original musician (Ian Widgery)...but, just give a try, chinese oldies are still beautiful stuff.

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  4. I never menat to say there are the same.
    Vol.1 has modern remixes by Ian Widgery.
    Vol.2 has the original recordings that were used for remixes on Vol.1 and also some extra tunes as a bonus.

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  5. Anyway you're showing the front cover from Shanghai's Lounge Divas Volume 2! (the grey pic), a different one from the double cd Volume One, including both the remixed and the original recordings by Ian Widgery...that's the mistake.

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  6. Thank you for correcting me, then.

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  7. If you love this project you may wish to find out more & view some of the videos made from Volume 1
    www.youtube.com/Ianwidgery

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  8. the two sendspace links are dead:((

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  9. Very interesting post. Searching for old shanghai jazz and stumbled onto this post. MU links do not work at the moment. Can pls offer rapidshare links instead? Many thanks in advance!

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  10. Neither of the sendspace links are workig, and I cant get through on megaupload!
    I downloaded the second cd on itunes already, but they don't have the remix disc. Please please help :(

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  11. the links are dead!!! pls upload!!! :(:(:(

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  12. please please fix the megaupload link.thanks

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  13. I don't know what's wrong, both megaupload links look to me like they work. Try again.

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  14. I tried again but its the same problem. It would stop after awhile of downloading saying that the source file could not be read or something like that...anyway the one i tried was the remixes

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  15. thank you so much...this is fantastic. anyway does anyone know the link to shanghai jazz vol.2? its nice, really...hope so bad to find it :((

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  16. this is beautiful. has this "alternative" feel!!

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  17. i've been looking all over for that yao li song "this love is not for me" after hearing it in a movie "purple butterfly" but it was named "could not get your love" so it made it even more difficult to find lol. thx so much for sharing this else i would have never found it!

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  18. any kind soul who able to get it from megaupload dont mind pls upload to sendspace? thank you v much!

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  19. Gracias por el aporte...

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  20. hello i cant find the passphrese to those files, can you help me?

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  21. Can't wait to check these albums out. Thanks for sharing!

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  22. terrible mixes, the originals are much better!

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  23. Amazing!! I can only imagine my mother hearing some of these while growing up in China in the 30's..... The remixes could be better.....

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  24. for the second CD i will gladly have your babies.

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  25. Great album and great story about it, thanks for sharing them.

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  26. Sendspace links are dead as are mega's - any way to upload again? thankyouuu

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  27. Link for CD1 is dead.

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  28. link for cd2 down reupload please tx!

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  29. Yeah, the link for CD2 is down. Could you reupload? Thanks!

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  30. link 2 is down,hand it over! ;)

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  31. Would love to have the link re-up for the CD2! Thanks!

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  32. Hello, could you re-upload the 4 links? Thanks so much

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  33. would love if you could re-up these!

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